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JAMES P. DICKENSON has gained a good success in material things in Harney county
since his advent here and is one of the substantial and leading stockmen and
farmers to-day. He and his family have two good hay farms near the Narrows and
also three near Lawen. These fine tracts of land return him annually large
amounts of hay and give him opportunity to handle many head of stock.
James P. was born in Grayson county, Virginia, on February 18, 1842, being the
son of John and Rosa (Hale) Dickenson. He grew up on the farm and gained his
education from the common schools, and in the spring of 1861 he enlisted in
Company C, Forty-fifth Virginia, as second lieutenant under General John B.
Floyd. He was in the battles of Wytheville, Parisburg, Big Sewell Mountain and
Carnifax Ferry, besides many skirmishes. At the end of the year for which he
enlisted he retired from the army and went home and was chosen tax collector for
Grayson county. Eighteen months later he enlisted in the Twenty-second Virginia
Cavalry and took part in the battles of Lynchburg and Luray valley, at which
last place his horse was shot from under him and he was captured. He languished
in the war prison at Point Lookout, Maryland, until the close of the war, July,
1865. The treatment was sever in the prison. He returned to Grayson county, and
in February, 1866, he married Miss Laura A. Milton. He engaged in farming and
stockraising until 1872, then came via San Francisco and Portland to Linn
county, Oregon. There he farmed until 1888, and then migrated to Crook county,
and in 1889 came near to Lawen. He entered a homestead on the Malheur lake and
took up raising stock. He resides at Lawen and is a worthy and progressive
citizen. Mr. Dickenson is a member of the Stock Association of Harney Valley. To
Mr. and Mrs. Dickenson there have been born three children, Mrs. Effie M. Syrne,
of Burns; Guy E., at Lawen; Mrs. Rosa C. Kern, of Lawen.
Transcribed from Page 665 of Harney County Biographies from “An Illustrated
History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties with a brief outline of the
early history of the State of Oregon”, Published 1902 by Western Historical
Publishing Company
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