Catherine Colt Dickey, baby Mary, Charlie, and Charles D. Dickey, 1920

LINDSAY & DICKEY HISTORY

Links to some items of interest concerning the Lindsay & Dickey families

Stephen Whitney Lindsay

 

 
Charles Dickey at Yale 1915
"Popsy's Hockey Years"
A short paper about my grandfather Charles D. Dickey's hockey "career".  In the era before World War I (1912-1917), he played at Yale and in New York City. (pdf file)
 
Bradish Johnson
"Bradish Johnson"
A short biography of one of my great-great-great grandfathers— a notorious 19th century sugar tycoon with roots in Louisiana and New York. (pdf file)
 
 

Eliza Catherine Seon Massachusetts Dunscomb Colt (with great grandson Charles Dickey)

Mrs. Harris Colt around 1920

"Magill and Dunscomb"
On Thanksgiving of 1907, my 73 year old great-great grandmother Catherine Seon Dunscomb Colt set down all she knew about her father's and mother's families - Magill, Denny, Seon, Manley, and Dunscomb. (pdf file)
 
 

Thorntree

"Thorntree"- the Witherspoon house in Kingstree, South Carolina

In 1780, Robert Witherspoon (1728-1788) wrote down an account of immigrating to South Carolina from Northern Ireland with his family when he was 6 years old. Robert Witherspoon was one of my 4th great grandfathers. (.pdf file)
 
 

Charles Denston Dickey, Jr.(1860-1919)

Charles Denston Dickey, Jr. (1860-1919)

"Charley Dickey, Jr. and Teddy Roosevelt"
For the first two years of my great-grandfather Charley Dickey's time at Harvard, he rented a room in the same house as Theodore Roosevelt, a family friend from New York. This document contains a few letters by TR where he refers to Charley and their friendship. (pdf file)