History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 509, Bernadotte Township
Frank M. Dyckes, farmer, sec. 29; P. O., Ipava; was born in
Lewistown, March 27, 1848, the son of Joseph and Lucinda Dyckes, who
still reside in Lewistown. Mr. D., who has resided in Fulton county all
his life, was educated at Lewistown and the Wesleyan University at
Bloomington, Ill. After leaving college he became Deputy Circuit Clerk
of this county, which office he filled with honor for six years, at the
expiration of which he turned his attention to farming, on the fine
farm of 480 acres owned by himself and his brother William, of
Lewistown, one of the best of the county. Democrat.
submitted by Carla Finley
