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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Obed Dickenson ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Obed Dickenson
LAST NAME: Dickenson FIRST NAME: Obed MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Rev. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 15 Jun 1818 DIED: 27 Nov 1892 BURIED: 29 Nov 1892
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Reverend, seed business
BIRTH PLACE:  Amherst, Massachusetts
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Rev. O. Dickerson [sic], age 75, died in Salem, Oregon of lung trouble, seedsman of Salem.
Rev. Obed Dickinson Temperance minister. He was age 74 years, 5 months, 12 days at the time he died. 

BIOGRAPHICAL: 
"Born in Massachusetts in 1818; moved to Michigan in 1836; came to Oregon by way of Cape Horn; settled in Salem after his arrival, and was pastor in the Congregational Church there for fourteen years after his arrival. He has been engaged in the seed business since 1865, and kept a nursery for twelve years; has twenty-one acres of land in orchard and garden, and ships seeds to all parts of the Pacific Coast. Married Miss Charlotte Humphrey in 1852, and by her had several children, but one of whom--Cora E.-- is now living. Mrs. Perry H. Raymond is his adopted daughter." 
Lang, HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION, p. 808 

TO THE SAME EFFECT -- From Rev. O Dickinson, who has been on a tour through Marion, Clackamas, Washingtion and Yamhill counties, we learn that there will be heavy wheat crops in those counties. The surplus that will be for sale, is reconed at fully as much as has heretofore been procuced. These fine crops however is continued to fall sowing, and that planted in February. The spring crops proper will be very short. 
Daily Unionist, July 2, 1869, 3:1 

BIOGRAPHICAL: 
Obed Dickenson was the sixth child in a family of ten, fathered by Obed, Sr. and wife Experience. His father died when Obed was 10 and he became principal caretaker of his mother and younger brothers and sisters. He worked on the farm until he was 25 years old, then went to school to prepare for the ministry. 
Graduated from Marietta College, then Andover Theological Seminary at the age of 34. He was a man of principle and lived true to his beliefs. This got him into trouble with the members of his church and he resigned his position twice, but they always voted him back in. 
"The Reverend Obed Dickinson had been the Minister of that church [Congregational] for eight years, when the Oregon Statesman referred to the church as the "Nigger Church," and emotional excitement rose in the valley over the civil conflict. He had already confronted the "liquor interests," and he had advocated more taxes for schools in the face of opposition and indifference, but facing the question of equality and civil rights for Negroes brought his ministry to a climax." 
Dickinson resigned his pastorate at the end of the church year in March, 1867, devoting his time to developing his seed business and a nursery. 
In 1879 Dickinson read a paper at the [Congregational] association meeting advocating that the Sabbath was rightly the last day of the week and not the first. No other member of the association meeting joined with him in such advocacy, and the idea received no action. Dickinson, however, as was usual with him, acted on his conviction. He requested dismissal from the Congregational Association and thereafter devoted his religious activities toward furthering the Seventh Day Adventist Church. A church was organized in Salem, and he did some preaching for the small membership.
Obed Dickinson's War Against Sin in Salem 1853-1867, by Egbert S. Oliver. 
Capital Journal Nov. 29, 1892, 3:3 
SEE ALSO: Salem History website
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
O. DICKINSON. A SALEM PIONEER, PREACHER AND SEEDSMAN DEAD. 
Died, Sunday morning, at 4 o'clock, Nov. 27, 1892, at his residence on Front Street, O. Dickinson, one of the pioneer business men of this county. He had been ill but a few days and his death was sudden as it was unexpected, though he has had weak lungs for some time. 
Deceased was 74 years old, born in Springfield, Mass., residing afterwards in Michigan, where a sister was married to Governor Luce. He leaves a wife and an only child, Mrs. A. N. Moores, besides an adopted daughter, Mrs. P. H. Raymond of Portland. Mr. Dickinson was one of the earliest of Congregational missionaries on the coast, coming to Salem about forty years ago as minister of that denomination; the first society here being organized under him July 10, 1852. 
He was pastor from 1853 to April 1867. Of late years he has been an Adventist. 
Mr. Dickinson was a hard worker and acquired a fortune in the seed and nursery business. He gave liberally of his means to other churches, not long since donating quite a sum to Pacific academy at Forest Grove. He was a man of social qualities and charitable in his instincts. 
The funeral is set for Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., at the Congregational church. Revs. Starbuck, of East Portland, and Sharp, of Eugene, and Prof. Condon, of Eugene are expected to be present and take part in the funeral exercises. 
Capital Journal 28 November 1892 3:3 

LAST SAD RITES. 
The funeral of the late Rev. Obed Dickenson was held yesterday afternoon at the residence on Front street and from the Congregational church, where services were conducted by Elder Sharpe and Thomas H. Starbuck, of the church of the Seventh Day Adventists. The remains were interred in Rural cemetery. 
The pall bearers were: Squire Farrar, Charles Claggett, C.M. Parmenter, P.H. Hatch, T. McF. Patton, (relieved by G.H. Jones) and Rev. Graham. 
Oregon Statesman, November 30, 1892, 4:3 

LAST SAD RITES
The funeral of the late Rev. Obed Dickenson was held yesterday afternoon at the residence on Front street and from the Congregational church, where services were conducted by Elder Sharpe and Thomas H. Starbuck, of the church of the Seventh Day Adventists. The remains were interred in Rural cemetery. The pall bearers were: Squire Farrar, Charles Claggett, C.M. Parmenter, P.H. Hatch, T. McF. Patton, (relieved by G.H. Jones) and Rev. Graham. 
Oregon Statesman, November 30, 1892, 4:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Obed Dickenson 
Born at 
Amherst, Mass. 
June 15, 1818 
Died Nov. 27, 1892
SOURCES: 
IOOF Register of Burials
DAR pg 26 
Daily Unionist, July 2, 1869, 3:1 
OS 30 Nov 1892 4:3 
CJ 28 November 1892 3:3
CJ Nov. 29, 1892, 3:3 
See also: Salem History website 
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