Bertha Arwilda Dickason

OREN DICKASON, who is engaged in the real estate business in Lima, was born September 29, 1871, and has always lived in Allen County except for temporary periods of absence. He is a son of John and Sarah E. (Lones) Dickason, the father a native of Marion County, while the mother always lived in Allen County. The maternal grandfather, Leonard Lones, was born in Germany. He was among the early settlers in Jackson Township, Allen County. The Dickasons were married in Jackson Township. John Dickason, who was engaged in the timber and lumber business, died March 8, 1911, his wife having died April 4, 1884, and Oren and Frank Dickason were their sons.

Oren Dickason spent his boyhood days in Allen and Paulding counties. When he was thirteen years old he began working on a farm by the month in Paulding County. Four years later he began farm work in Allen County, continuing three years as a laborer by the month, when he went with his father in the lumber business, remaining six years. Feeling the need of better education, Mr. Dickason then attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada, and after completing the business course went into the lumber business again as an inspector for Joseph Morris, a wholesale lumber dealer of Lima.

Mr. Dickason's next business enterprise was as a traveling salesman for a wholesale paper house of Cincinnati. Seven years later he became interested in oil production in Ohio and Indiana. For six years he was active in the oil fields while the production was at its best in Ohio and Indiana, but since 1911 has been engaged in the real estate business, with an office on the public square in Lima. He confines his efforts to farm deals, and always has some good properties on his sale list. As a real estate dealer he is incidentally a community booster.

On October 19, 1904, Mr. Dickason married Bertha A. Dicus. She is a daughter of George H. and Anna (Listerman) Dicus of Paulding County. Although of Irish descent, the father was born in Indiana. The mother, now deceased, was born in Germany. They at one time lived in Defiance.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dickason are:

Paul J., who died at the age of fourteen years;

Morris D., and

Oren Edward.

Mr. Dickason is a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima. He is a Mason, both of the Chapter and Council, and also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 54, of Lima. Mr. Dickason is a republican.

Bibliographic information:

• Title A Standard History of Allen County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2
• Editor William Rusler
• Contributor American Historical Society
• Publisher American historical society, 1921
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized May 14, 2012
• Page 238
• https://books.google.com/books?id=-9cyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&d...

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LW6G-P5M