Person:John Dickey (47)

Research Notes

• John Jay Dickey was a circuit-riding Baptist minister and teacher, best known as the author of the John Jay Dickey Diary which chronicled his life and travels throughout southeastern Kentucky.
• For an alphabetical listing of names in his diary see: Pioneer ghosts of Kentucky, rest in peace John Jay Dickey : a comprehensive name index of the Dickey diary / abstracted and arranged by Wilma Winton.
• see also Reverend John Jay Dickey Collection, 1883-1920 at the University of Kentucky Special Collections, which writes:

John Jay Dickey (1842-1934), methodist minister and educator, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky. As an educator, Dickey wanted to establish schools in every county in Eastern Kentucky. In 1883, he helped found Jackson Academy, an elementary and high school, in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, and served as its principal until 1891. At that time he became the editor of the Jackson Hustler and provided a newspaper column for the academy. Additionally, in 1891 the academy was taken over by Central University of Richmond, Kentucky. In 1888 Dickey was elected president of the Breathitt County Teachers Association. Dickey stayed in Jackson until 1895 when he left to help establish the Sue Bennett Memorial School in London, Laurel County, Kentucky.