Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. MARY
DICKINSON
MRS. MARY DICKINSON, a ranch owner of Cosumnes Township, was born in Ireland in 1840, her parents being Henry and Nancy (Rooney) Doyle. She came to America in 1858, and settled in Wisconsin, where she married early in 1863 at Janesville, John Hilton, the son of an English father and Irish mother, but born during the temporary sojourn of his parents in France, in 1825. Mr. Hilton was a mason by trade and came to California with his wife and child in May, 1864, and died in Sacramento in 1869, leaving two sons: Thomas Jefferson, born near Janesville, Wisconsin, February 28, 1864, and John, born in this State, June 26, 1867. In 1871 Mrs. (Doyle) Hilton was married in Sacramento to Mr. Peter Dickinson, born in England, April 11, 1830. His mother is known to have been eighty when she died in England in 1870. When the father died is not known. The son went to sea at the age of eleven and followed that kind of life for nine years, visiting China, India, Australia and nearly all parts of the world. Coming to California in 1850 he quit seafaring life and went to mining, which he followed many years. He secured title to 197 acres, half a mile east of Michigan Bar, well adapted to fruit culture and farming. Mr. Dickinson died November 15, 1885, leaving three children: Rose Alice, born August, 1872; James Peter, May 19, 1874; and Mary Ellen, June 16, 1878.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 759-760. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.