Northern Alabama, historical and . d a son ofW. W. Dickey, Esq., an Alabama planter, and agrandson of Samuel Dickey, who moved fromGeorgia to Alabama in 1830, and settled nearOrion, Pike County, The subject of this sketch was reared at RaifBranch, in the connty of Montgomery. Hismother, Nancy L. Dickey, nee Burgess, was adaughter of Richard Burgess, Esq., originallyof East Tennessee, but for many years previousto his death a citizen of Shelby County, Ala. Mr. Dickey isof Scotch-Irish and English an-cestry, and is now thirty years of age. He spenthis youth on the farm and prepare
Northern Alabama, historical and . d a son ofW. W. Dickey, Esq., an Alabama planter, and agrandson of Samuel Dickey, who moved fromGeorgia to Alabama in 1830, and settled nearOrion, Pike County, The subject of this sketch was reared at RaifBranch, in the connty of Montgomery. Hismother, Nancy L. Dickey, nee Burgess, was adaughter of Richard Burgess, Esq., originallyof East Tennessee, but for many years previousto his death a citizen of Shelby County, Ala. Mr. Dickey isof Scotch-Irish and English an-cestry, and is now thirty years of age. He spenthis youth on the farm and prepared for college inthe schools near his fathers home, and at the Ag-ricultural and Jlechanical College at Auburn. Heentered Iliwassee College. East Tennessee, sessibnof 1875-6, and was graduated as A. B. from thatinstitution in 1877, and as A, M. in 1878. During 1879 and 1880, he was president of theCentral Collegiate Institute, Culloden, Ga., and inthe fall of the latter year became a post-graduatestudent at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, ^/T/^//// Z^^J^^^ NORTHERN ALABAMA. 765 In 18K1, lio bpciinie a student in tlie Depiirt-muiit (if tlie University of Alubania, from wliicliiiistitutidii he was graduated, receiving tiie degreeof |{ai;helor of Laws in July, 188-i. In l!S8^ and 18!S.{, he was ])rosidentof the Cor-inth Female College and Male Classical Institute,Corinth, Miss. In June, 1883, having resignedthe last-named position, he removed to Montgom-erv, Ala., ami entered \\\)o\\ tiie practice of October following he was offered and acceptedtiio professorship of History and Englisli Litera-ture in the Soutliern Lniversity, fJieensboro, position he resigned at the close of the Uni-versity year, and immediately thereafter (July,1884) removed to Birmingham, where he openeda law office, lie at first practiced his professionalone, but, later, formed a partnershij) with Polk, nephew of President James K. Polk,under the firm name of Dickey & Polk.
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