Robert Morris Dickson, one of the progressive farmers of Spring Creek township, and the owner of eighty acres of land beautifully situated about four and one-half miles east of Piqua, is widely known as a lecturer identified with the work of the Ohio State Grange. Mr. Dickson was born in Spring Creek township, a son of Samuel McKnight and Jane (Patterson) Dickson, and belongs to an old and honored family of Miami county which originated in Pennsylvania. Samuel McKnight Dickson was born at Rossville, Spring Creek township, September 1, 1824, was educated in the public schools and subsequently became an educator, being a man, of unusual brilliance of mind. In later years he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and was also active in civic affairs, serving as township clerk, infirmary director and in other capacities. He was a stanch Republican. His death occurred May 26, 1862. R. Dickson married Jane Patterson, who was born in Pennsylvania, August 31, 1832 a daughter of Robert and Mary Patterson, and they became the parents of two sons: John Charles, who died at the age of forty-two years, and Robert Morris. Mrs. Jane Dickson died January 22, 191. Robert M. Dickson attended the country schools in Spring Creek township, the normal school at Danville, Ind., and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and then entered upon a career as an educator. For eighteen years he taught in the schools of Miami county, for one year in Iowa and for two years in Kentucky, and then retired from the public educator's calling and turned his attention to agricultural matters . He has a splendidly improved property, and carries on successful activities, as a farmer and a raiser of pure-bred Poland China hogs and other good live stock. While Mr. Dickson has been successful as a teacher and farmer, he has perhaps become best known to the people of Ohio as a Grange worker. He is deputy master of the Miami county Grange, a position which he has held for two years. Mr. Dickson is known as a great community worker, and has been a director of the Piqua Chautauqua for years, and for a decade a member of the Miami County Fair Board. He has been for several years chairman of the Committee for Soldiers' Day at the Miami County Fair, his executive ability fitting him thoroughly for the entertainment of the veterans. Politically he is an active Republican, and has served on numerous occasions as delegate to county, congressional and senatorial conventions. He is secretary of the township organization at this time and is accounted one of the strong and influential men of his party. His fellow citizens have expressed their recognition of his abilities and integrity by electing him to offices of trust, he having served for nine years as a member of the Board of Township Trustees, for six years as pike superintendent, and for a long period as a member of the school board. Mr. Dickson married Harriet, daughter of John H. and Mary Himmelright, who graduated with honors from Piqua High School in 1883, being valedictorian of her class, and then pursued a course at the Ohio Northern College at Ada, Ohio. An intellectual, cultured and refined woman, she has been of great assistance to her husband in his various activities, and was formerly a public school teacher at Piqua, and for twelve years a teacher in the Sunday school. For four years she was a lecturer of the Ohio State Grange, for thirteen years had charge of the juvenile grange, and for four years, from 1913 to 1917, she had charge of the literary work of the grange. As a lecturer on grange subjects she has traveled all over Ohio, and is recognized as one of the State's most capable community welfare workers. She also speaks at farmers' institutes, and at present is one of the directors of the farm bureau of Miami county.