Family
Histories of Coleman County, Texas
Allan L.
Dickinson
[from A History of Central and
Western Texas - 1911]
From A
History of Coleman County and Its People,
1985
edited by
Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates -
used by permission
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Allan
L. Dickinson was born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and became a traveling salesman
for wholesale dry goods houses out of
Chicago from 1881 to 1895, covering the
territory on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, but during the latter part of
the period, he traveled in Texas. In
1898, he came to Coleman County, where he
entered the cattle and farming business,
later went into the real estate
development in Coleman, and with his
associates has successfully promoted a
number of important new enterprises in the
city, including a cotton compress and a
cotton oil mill, and plans are in the
progress for a new hotel, a large brick
plant and other industries. He was
one or the organizers and is the manager
of the Coleman Development Company, which
in the summer of 1909, placed on the
market, the Santa Fe Addition to Coleman,
an eighty-four acre tract situated in the
northwest part of town and laid off into
building lots, with streets graded, water
pipes laid and all conveniences furnished
for the building of homes. The lots
in this addition are particularly
convenient for persons connected with the
oil mill, cotton compress, and other
industries located in the northwest
section of the city, and it was in fact
for their accommodation largely that the
property was developed and improved.
He took an active part in the securing of
the Santa Fe cut-off for Coleman, and in
fact many of the city's institutions owe
their origin and development to him.
He married Josephine Forsyth, who was born
in Florida, and they have two daughters,
Marie and Josephine.
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Allan L.
Dickinson
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