His parents hired Rufus Choate, a famous Boston attorney who was noted for the innovative defense strategies he employed to acquit his clients.
Dickerson may have been smarting from confrontations in the U.S. District Court battle, which turned into a jousting match between two of the foremost attorneys of the day: Dickerson representing Colt; and Rufus Choate representing the Massachusetts Arms Company.
From his college days, Rev. Tracy was closely associated with the New England group who were leaders in the development of political feeling in the north, most notably Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster, both fellow Dartmouth graduates.
A precocious child, at six he is said to have been able to repeat large parts of the Bible and of Pilgrim's Progress from memory.
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In July 1859 failing health led him to seek rest in a trip to Europe, but he died on July 13, 1859 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had been put ashore when it was seen that he probably could not last the voyage across the Atlantic.
The streets were named alphabetically from east to west; the third street was named Choate Street, after Rufus Choate.
Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Thomas | Rufus Reid | Rufus King | Rufus Wilmot Griswold | Rufus Hound | Rufus Choate | Choate Rosemary Hall | The Life of Rufus Dawes | Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading | Quintus Curtius Rufus | Marcus Junius Rufus | Joseph Hodges Choate | Choate | Alan Rufus | William Rufus Shafter | Rufus Sewell | Rufus Riddlesbarger | Rufus Isaacs | Rufus Hannah | Richard Rufus | Publius Sulpicius Rufus | Tim Choate | Rufus Yerxa | Rufus Wright | Rufus Waller | Rufus Travis Amis | Rufus S. Bratton | Rufus Saxton | Rufus Putnam |