Jesse C. Dickey

Name

Jesse C. Dickey

First Name

Jesse

Additional Names

Column

Last Name

Dickey

Born

27 February 1808

Died

19 February 1890

Spouse

Margaret Dickey

Profession

Politican
Farmer
Teacher

Note

Pennsylvania State House of Representatives (1842-1845)
United States House of Representatives (1849-1851)
When William Burleigh is shut out of the Hopewell Academy in 1837, Dickey opened his private residence, from the porch of which WHB gave a good lecture!
[reference - Futhey, John Smith and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881. p. 522].

Biographical Entry for U.S. Congress

History of Chester County, by Futhey and Cope

William Henry Burleigh

Related Places

Eastern Pennsylvania

Associated Causes

Whig Party when elected to Houses of State and National Congress.

Abolition

Republican Party

Religious Affiliation

Buried in a Presbyterian Cemetery

Presbyterian