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Title: A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Fremont County (Iowa) -- Biography Mills County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-ties of his office. He has made a closestudy of the needs of the city and its possi-bilities, and has introduced many desirablereforms and improvements. His adminis-tration has been a progressive one and hereceives the commendation of men of allparties. Socially he is connected with theMasonic fraternity, in which he has takenthe chapter degrees, and is also a memberof Joe Ross Post. G. A. R., of Sidney. \MLLIA^I DYSON. A\illiam Dyson, deceased, who became awell-known resident of Mills county, Iowa,Avhere his earnest and indefatigable laborsenabled him to rise from a humble financialposition to one of aftiuence, was born atGoole Fields. Yorkshire, England, JNIay 21,1828. His parents were \Mlliam and Han-nah Dyson, and the former worked uponone farm for forty years. He died at theage of seventv-four vears and his wife livedto the remarkable old age of one hundredand one years. The educational privilegeswhich the son received were very limited.He attended the schools of Goole, studying
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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 491 a few ;)riniiti\c huoks, such a.s_ KeadingMade lias)-, tlie s))elliiig book, aritlmielic,tlie Testament and the Hihle. (Jraihiatioiiwas unknown at that time in the puljhcschools, and at the age of lit teen he wasforced to put aside his text-hooks in orderto earn his own lixelihood and aid in thesupjiort of the f;unil\. He worked with hisfather on the farm where the latter wasemplo)ed and gave his money toward payingthe household expenses. 1 lis parents werekind hut poor, and liis advantages weretlierefore meager. When al)out eighteenyears of age. however, he was allowed todo for himself and worked as a farm handhy the year, his wages averaging from fourt(.. twenty pounds per annum until his mar-riage, when he was given ten shillings perweek antl hoarded himself. In the springof 1852 he determined to try his fortunein America, believing that Ijetter oppor-tunities were afforded in the new world bythose who desired to gain advancementthrough their own labor. Ac

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