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A Piece of Dixon History: Why Dixon loved John Dixon
Editor’s note: Today’s column is the second of a two-part series about the death of Dixon’s founder. The first column was published in the July 5 edition of the Dixon Telegraph. When Dixon’s founder John Dixon died at age 91 on July 6, 1876, an estimated …