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2 unusual facts about Jacob M. Dickinson


Henry D. Lindsley

His father was a judge and his maternal uncle, Jacob M. Dickinson, was a judge and the Secretary of War in President Taft's Cabinet.

Jacob Dickinson

Jacob M. Dickinson (1851–1928), United States Secretary of War, 1909–1911


Andrew B. Dickinson

Dickinson's appointment as U.S. Marshal was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 18, 1863, but Edward Dodd was appointed to succeed as U.S. Marshal on April 18, 1863, and Dickinson was on the same day re-appointed as U.S. Minister to Nicaragua.

He died in León, Nicaragua from complications after a fall from a mule, and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York).

Andrew Bray Dickinson (August 29, 1801 Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey – April 21, 1873 León, Nicaragua) was an American politician from New York.

Bellevue Literary Review

The Bellevue Literary Review has published the works of Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Eamon Grennan, Julia Alvarez, Rick Moody, Hal Sirowitz, Charles Barber, Peter Selgin, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dixon, Virgil Suarez, Sheila Kohler, and Jacob M. Appel.

Chariton Review

Among established writers whose work has appeared in The Chariton Review are David Wagoner, Michael Pettit, James Sallis, Ann Pancake, Gordon Weaver, Jacob Appel and David Lawrence.

Colorado Review

Other notable writers whose work has appeared in this journal are Charles Baxter, G.C. Waldrep, Tomaž Šalamun, Peter Selgin, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Valery Varble, Alix Ohlin, Steven Church, Brandon Schrand, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacob M. Appel, Robert H. Abel, and Floyd Skloot.

Gabriel Furman

In November 1842 he ran on the Whig ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat Daniel S. Dickinson.

Health insurance in the United States

Instead, as Edward Beiser and Jacob Appel have separately argued, health insurers are better thought of as low-risk money managers who pocket the interest on what are really long-term healthcare savings accounts.

Jabberwock Review

Recent notable contributors include poets Nicky Beer and Brian Barker and fiction writers Jacob M. Appel and Robert Parham.

Jacob Appel

Jacob M. Appel (born 1973), American author, bioethicist and social critic

Lester J. Dickinson

Steck, the first Democratic senator from Iowa since the American Civil War, had reached the Senate with the assistance of many conservative Republican voters (who refused to support the 1924 Republican primary victor, Smith W. Brookhart, because of his anti-business, pro-labor views) and an unprecedented vote by the Senate in 1926 to overturn its original choice to seat Brookhart in 1925.

Little Theatre of Alexandria

It has played an important role in launching the careers of playwrights such as Sandra Fenichel Asher, Rich Orloff, and Jacob M. Appel.

Luer taper

The Luer-Lok fitting was developed in the United States by Fairleigh S. Dickinson.

Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Potomac Review

Writers who have contributed to this journal include Amina Gautier, Seth Abramson, Jacob M. Appel, Lisa Ohlen Harris, David Wagoner, Ned Balbo and Margaret MacInnis.

Robert Olen Butler Prize

As of 2009, three individuals had appeared in the anthology more than once: Jacob M. Appel (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Erin Soros (2008, 2009) and Mark Wisniewski (2008, 2009).

StoryQuarterly

Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Denis Johnson, Jacob M. Appel, Keith Lee Morris, Dan O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, Margaret Atwood, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

The Chattahoochee Review

Among the writers whose work has appeared in the journal are George Singleton, Flannery O'Connor, Juliana Baggott, Steve Almond, Thomas Lux, Jacob M. Appel, Amina Gautier, and Alice Friman.

The Cimarron Review

Recent contributors of note include short story writers Jacob M. Appel, Gary Fincke, Rebecca Aronson and poet Christien Gholson.

The Mistress of Wholesome

The Mistress of Wholesome is a play by Jacob Appel that premiered at the Little Theatre of Alexandria on May 16, 2008.

Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre

Recent productions include Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan (2000), Matt Hanf's "Three Messiahs Walk Into a Bar" (2007), and Jacob Appel's Thirds (2010).

Timber Creek Review

Among the established writers whose careers the TCR helped launch are Corey Mesler, Ron Cooper, Jacob Appel, Pamela Hughes, Brady Allen, Daniel Brugioni, Marion Hodge, and Marie Manilla.

William R. Dickinson

Dickinson is renowned for his work in plate tectonics, sedimentary geology and Pacific Oceana geology and is considered one of the foremost experts on the geology of the Colorado Plateau.

Dickinson's research includes studying the potsherds (historic or prehistoric fragments of pottery) of Pacific Oceana.


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