Abram Dixon (July 23, 1787, in

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, Bennington County,

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– April 19, 1875, in Westfield,

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) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Joseph Dixon (1754–1839) and Mercy (Raymond) Dixon (1761–1847). Around 1795, the family moved to Sherburne,

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. He attended Hamilton-Oneida Academy, and graduated from

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in 1813. He then studied law at

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. On August 29, 1817, he married Caroline Pelton (1798–1837), and they had three children. The newly-wed couple settled at Westfield, and Dixon practiced law there. Around 1840, he married Eliza Williams (Holt) Higgins (c. 1805–1858), and they had two children. He was a Whig member of the

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(4th D.) from 1840 to 1843, sitting in the 63rd, 64th, 65th and

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s. In November 1867, he was elected a special surrogate of Chautauqua County.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 132ff and 140; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) *Death notice of his wife i
''Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons''
by Nathan Crosby (Boston, 1859; pg. 90)
''Manual for the Use of the Legislature''
(1870; pg. 241)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Abram 1787 births 1875 deaths New York (state) state senators People from Manchester, Vermont People from Sherburne, New York People from Westfield, New York New York (state) Whigs Hamilton College (New York) alumni Yale College alumni 19th-century New York state court judges 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature