. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ew York City, a veteran of the Civil war, whowas taken prisoner at Gettysburg and sent toLibby prison, where he remained for eighteenmonths, escaping by digging his way out. Hewon distinction during his service and enrolled hisname among the foremost men of the mother is still surviving and makes her homeat No. 1772 Twenty-first avenue, East Oakland. Robert Vickers Dixon received his early edu-cation in the public schools o
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ew York City, a veteran of the Civil war, whowas taken prisoner at Gettysburg and sent toLibby prison, where he remained for eighteenmonths, escaping by digging his way out. Hewon distinction during his service and enrolled hisname among the foremost men of the mother is still surviving and makes her homeat No. 1772 Twenty-first avenue, East Oakland. Robert Vickers Dixon received his early edu-cation in the public schools of Kansas and Nebras-ka, then took a normal course in college, andfinally completed his education by a thoroughbusiness training in the Gem City Business Col-lege of Quincy, 111. After leaving school he be-gan as a law stenographer and reporter, andlater began teaching in various commercialcolleges of the middle west. Upon coming toSan Francisco in 1899 he took charge of theshorthand department in the San Francisco Busi-ness College and held the position until 1903,when he resigned in order to establish the DixonCollege in Oakland. This was consolidated in. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 28] 1906 with the Heald College and took the nameof the Heald-Dixon Business College. now acts as the business manager of thisschool, which is one of the best in this sectionof the country, each department being under thehead of a thoroughly efficient instructor, equip-ment modern and up-to-date, and everything be-speaking the character and ability of the men whoare at its head. Besides these interests Mr. Dix-on has stock in the West Coast Printing- Com-pany of Oakland, and serves on its board of di-rectors, has invested in real estate here, in stockin the German Bank, and also in the mines ofCalifornia and Nevada. Mr. Dixon was married to Miss Mattie Hans-lip, of Osage City. Kan., the daughter of W. Hanslip, formerly a capitalist of thatplace and now deceased. In his frater
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