Nathaniel Dickinson, grandson of Nathaniel and Theoda and son of John and wife Eleanor Hicks, was born at Calais, Vermont, December 20, 1810; became a joiner and building contractor; worked at Boston, and at Haverhill, New Hampshire; was member of a military company at Boston, and a captain of New Hampshire militia; married at East Calais, January 26, 1841. Phila, daughter of Artemas Foster and Priscilla Titus. In 1843 he came to Burlington Village, was a supervisor for four years, member of county board two years, and justice two years. In 1846 he was member of committee on boundaries and name of state in the first constitutional convention. Under Governor Dewey he was captain of Company G, Fourth Wisconsin Militia. He came to Spring Prairie in 1854, to Delavan in 1860, and to Elkhorn in 1863. Mrs. Dickinson was born at East Calais, April 10, 1815; died at Elkhorn, March 13, 1873. Mr. Dickinson’s death was March 14, 1883.
They had live children. One of these, Ransom Cass, was born at Burlington and died there. His father’s military preceptor in Vermont was Col. Truman B. Ransom, who was killed at Chapultepec in command of the Ninth United States Infantry. Mr. Dickinson was all his life of the unwavering Democratic old guard, that could die but would join neither Free-soilers* nor Greenbackers**. For the rest, he had the usual quota of civic and domestic virtues, with the none too usual qualities of resoluteness in doing and in enduring, and that of unvarying temper that could not be upset by trifles nor could be tempted to hasty speech or action.
**(Greenbacker refers to a member of the Greenback Party, a US political party that advocated for paper money (greenbacks) during the post-Civil War era.)
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin