Banker
and saltmaker John Quincy Dickinson (November 20, 1831-November 26,
1925) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. During the Civil War he
enlisted in Company A of the Second Virginia Cavalry, commanded by his
brother, Capt. Henry Clay Dickinson. In 1864, he was captured near
Greene Court House, Virginia, and kept prisoner at Fort Delaware until
the end of the war. In 1865, Dickinson came to the Kanawha Valley
and began repairing the family’s salt works, which had been established
by his grandfather, William Dickinson Sr., in 1832. Dickinson,
with his father, William Dickinson Jr., brother Henry Clay Dickinson,
and others, established the Kanawha Valley Bank in 1867. At about
the time the bank was established he moved to the farm at present
Quincy. He lived there and in Malden until 1893, when he moved to
Charleston. Today, this property is the site of Riverside High
School and a shopping complex.
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