ALBERT M. DICKINSON
Albert Morton Dickinson, was born January 10, 1861, in the county of Hastings,
Ontario, Canada. His parents were Americans, his father, John A. Dickinson, being a native of Utica, N. Y., and his mother Lima B. (Reynolds) Dickinson, having
been born in Michigan. Albert M. Dickinson was educated at the Newburgh Academy at Newburgh, Ont., and learned the printer's trade at an early age. From 1878
to 1881 he taught school with much success on the Bay of Quinte and at Switzerville,
Ont. In May, 1881, Mr. Dickinson married Joanna N. Dickson, of the Bay of Quinte
district, and they have three children. In November of that year he removed to
Utica, N. Y., where for a few months he was employed on the Utica Herald. In
March, 1882, he left the "Herald" and became one of the founders of the 'Press,"
doing local work for that paper. In the fall of the same year Mr. Dickinson accepted a position on the staff of the Saturday Globe, then in its infancy, where he
has remained ever since, working his way up round by round until in 1888 he became
its managing editor.
Mr. Dickinson is a true knight of the pencil, is ever ready to trail a cyclone, to investigate the ravages of flood or fire, and mingle with bandit men in searching out material for "specials" to his paper: His style of writing is graphic, and his portexcites the interest of his readers and holds their at- tention. Mr. Dickinson was one of the two newspaper men from Central New York who visited the scene of the Johnstown flood immediately after the disaster. He was present at the capture, trial, and execution of Frank Almy, the infamous New Hampshire bandit and murderer. He has tested the mystic powers of negro voodooism in the south and spent several weeks among the White Caps of Kentucky and Indiana during the reign of terror in those States. And on those and other topics of note he has given to the constituents of the "Globe" from time to time the benefit of his rare experiences. Mr. Dickinson is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Utica Typographical Union.
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