Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 947.

WILLIAM DICKEY, farmer, Rock Creek Township, is a native of Scotland, born in Stirlingshire December 1, 1831, a son of William and Elizabeth (Bennett) DICKEY, who were natives of the same country. The father was a son of Robert and Margaret (Bayne) DICKEY, and the mother of our subject was a daughter of William Bennett. In 1849 the father came to America and located in Knox Countyy, Ohio, and the following year the remainder of the family followed him, taking seven weeks to come from Glasgow to New York. For six weeks they were out of sight of land, and at one time the sea was so rough that the steerage passengers were sent below and the hatches closed. Of the five children born to the parents of our subject only two are living. William DICKEY, whose name heads this sketch, was reared in his native country, remaining there until about nineteen years of age, when he crossed the ocean with his father's family. After coming to America he worked as a laborer for two years, after which he spent two years in Ohio at boilermaking. He then came to Indiana, and followed boiler-making at Fort Wayne for two years, then was in the employ of a railroad company for six years. October 29, 1858, he was married to Miss Margaret Gordon, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Smith) Gordon, natives of Roxburyshire, Scotland, who came to the United States in 1854. They are the parents of five children—William, Thomas, Jannett, Elizabeth and Robert. In 1863 Mr. Dickey came with his family to Wells County, Indiana, and settled on a farm of eighty acres of partially cleared land on section 28, Rock Creek Township, where he has since followed farming, and now has his land under fine cultivation. He had purchased this land two years before coming to the county. Since becoming a resident of Rock Creek Township he has served as justice of the peace four years. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. The father of Mr. Dickey died at his home in Wells County in April, 1876, at the age of seventy-three years. The mother died in Ohio