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DIXON , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., on the See also:Rock See also:river, in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state. Pop. (1890) 5161; (1900) 7917 (879 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 7216. It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western and the Illinois Central See also:railways, and is connected with See also:Sterling by an electric See also:line; See also:freight is shipped over the Hennepin See also:Canal. The city
has two parks of 159 and 6 acres respectively, and there is a See also:Chautauqua See also:Park, where an See also:annual Chautauqua See also:Assembly is held. Dixon is the seat of the See also:Northern Illinois normal school (incorporated in 1884), and of the Rock River military See also:academy. The river furnishes See also:water See also:power for the See also:street railways, electric See also:lighting and a number of manufacturing establishments. Among the manufactures are condensed See also:milk, boxes, See also:wire screens and wire See also:cloth, See also:lawn mowers, See also:gas engines, See also:cement, agricultural implements, shoes and wagons. The See also:place was laid out in 1835 by See also:John Dixon (1784–1876), the first See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settler of Lee county. A See also:bronze tablet in the See also:Howells See also:Building, at the inter-See also:section of First and See also:Peoria Streets, marks the site of his See also:cabin, and in the city See also:cemetery a See also:granite See also:shaft has been erected to his memory. Dixon was chartered as a city in 1859.
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