From collection Member List
While there are instances of the last name of the father being spelled as Dixson, in letters to him from Georgia Gov. John Brown, for example, the father signs his own name as “Dixon.” In addition, a number of correspondences from the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta spell our Brother’s name as “Dixson.”
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Education: Brother Dixon entered The University of Georgia in 1886. As a freshman, he was the pitcher for the baseball team. On October 20, 1886, he was elected treasurer of his class. The 1886 Pandora gives his hometown as “La Fayette, Alabama” and the 1887 Pandora as “Fayette, Alabama.” Dixon also joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in late fall or early winter of 1886. He was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1889 and elected as a student member of the school’s athletic association.
It appears that Brother Dixon never married. He is believed to be a child of William Benjamin Dixon, Sr. and Ann Eliza Thurston of Cuthbert, Georgia.
Career: After college, he was a merchant in Cuthbert, Georgia and later in Lee County, Alabama and by 1906, he was living in Chambers County, Alabama, across the Chattahoochee River from LaGrange and Troup County, Georgia. By 1930, Brother Dixon was living in the home of his sister Lena Ada (Dixon) Andrews and her husband William Alfred Andrews in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. According to “The Catalogue of Membership,” edited by Cecil J. Wilkinson, The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, December 1940, pp. 462-3, he was last living in Opelika, Alabama.
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Education: Brother Dixon entered The University of Georgia in 1886. As a freshman, he was the pitcher for the baseball team. On October 20, 1886, he was elected treasurer of his class. The 1886 Pandora gives his hometown as “La Fayette, Alabama” and the 1887 Pandora as “Fayette, Alabama.” Dixon also joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in late fall or early winter of 1886. He was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1889 and elected as a student member of the school’s athletic association.
It appears that Brother Dixon never married. He is believed to be a child of William Benjamin Dixon, Sr. and Ann Eliza Thurston of Cuthbert, Georgia.
Career: After college, he was a merchant in Cuthbert, Georgia and later in Lee County, Alabama and by 1906, he was living in Chambers County, Alabama, across the Chattahoochee River from LaGrange and Troup County, Georgia. By 1930, Brother Dixon was living in the home of his sister Lena Ada (Dixon) Andrews and her husband William Alfred Andrews in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. According to “The Catalogue of Membership,” edited by Cecil J. Wilkinson, The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, December 1940, pp. 462-3, he was last living in Opelika, Alabama.
