In Memorium - Levi Taylor Dickson

En fiftemoriam. LEVI TAYLOR DICKSON. Levi Taylor Dickson, a Vice-President of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, died at Aiken, South Carolina, December 18, 1898. He was born in Philadelphia May 22, 1848, his father being John Dickson and his mother Elizabeth Janet Cockburn. He traced his Dickson lineage to a family of that name living in the Seventeenth Century on the border land of England and Scotland ; and he traced his Taylor lineage through the Colonial Days to Samuel Taylor, an Englishman, who settled a few miles East of Burlington, West Jersey, in 1681. He himself contributed largely to the working out of the numerous branches of the descendants of Samuel Taylor, many of whom now live in Philadelphia and New Jersey. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia, but being possessed of ample means never practiced his profession. In 1872 he joined the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and subsequently served on the staff of the Governor of Pennsylvania. In the course of time he became interested in the preservation and utilization of our Colonial Records, and this interest deepened and increased and remained with him during the rest of his life. It was in pursuance of this line of thought and work that, in the year 1891, he associated himself with others of similar views and became one of the Founders of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. At the first meeting of the Society he was elected a VicePresident, and afterwards annually re-elected. (299 ) 800 Levi Taylor Dkhon. During this long term of service, which coincided with the very life of the Society, he proved a zealous and efficient worker and aided at all times the objects for which the Society was founded. As Chairman of Important Committees of the Board he had opportunities to prove the care and the thoroughness of his work. In the labor of formulating a regular system of work for the Society, he bore his full share, and by his death the Society losses an active and faithful official.