Biographical Sketch of Alice Louise Dixon nee Dwelle

Alice Louise Dixon nee Dwelle

Source: OUR BOOK: OUR ANCESTORS, OURSELVES, AND OUR CHILDREN by Ben F. Dixon,* 1932: page 64.

Alice Louise Dwelle was born on a farm near Cedar Point, Kansas, April 26, 1891. Father: Ferguson E. Dwelle, one of the early settlers of Cedar Creek county of Chase County, Kansas. He came from Corning, N.Y., with his brother Cuyler in 1872 ahead of the railway. He married Anna Williams, a school teacher in 1890. Alice Dwelle graduated from the high school and normal school courses at the Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, finishing in 1912, with a life certificate and also certificates in vocal and public school music. She taught successively at Reading, Kans., Antlers, Okla., Russell, Kans., Blackwell, Okla., Nickerson, Beloit, and Cedar Point, Kans. She is a member of the O.E.S.

*Submitter s Note: The writer of this sketch was Alice s husband, Ben F. Dixon.

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