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Leonard Eugene Dickson's story: details?
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[QUOTE="nomadreid, post: 5916471, member: 112452"] Many thanks, fresh 42. I did some more digging on the genealogy site you sent (great site!) , and, also given the information I wrote in my reply to Borek (see post #3 , which I wrote [I][B]after [/B][/I]you wrote, but [I][B]before[/B][/I] I received your reply), have concluded that: [1] it was the mother after all (not the [B]brother[/B] with first name Tracy), when she was Lucy Ellen Tracy, telling her son Leonard about her experience when she was in secondary school (only later becoming a banker), [2] it was the mother's sister, not either of Leonard's sisters (Frances Anna or Evelyn) (see post #3: also, Leonard's sisters were four years and ten years older than he was) [3] that although Lucy had several sisters , two of them (Mary Eveline and Ada H Timms ) were full sisters, whereas the others (Frances Orcelia and Dorothy Ardelia) were half-sisters. None were the same age as Lucy, but given that American schools, especially in places like Iowa, often lumped several classes into one, it is possible that she and a sister were studying together: the most probable being those closest in age to her. [4] There was one sister Mary Eveline who was two years older than Lucy (b. 1845 and 1843, resp.); all the others (the other full sister and the two half-sisters) had significantly larger differences in age. Conclusion: the most probable candidate was [B]Mary Eveline Tracy (later Dickson).[/B] So, your source and your suggestions helped answer my question (although not with certainty, but at least with a high probability). Also, the other source and information about Leonard were interesting (although I could only read the abstract, given that the sciendirect article was paid). For all that, thanks again. :smile: PS I wrote Iowa because although the father had earlier lived in New York State, the birth of his other children indicated that he was in Iowa at a time that Mary Eveline was taking geometry, assuming she was older than 13 when she had geometry. [/QUOTE]
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