Christian G. DICKHUT represents one of the old and prominent families of Adams County, and has for half a century been active in the life and affairs of his home city of Quincy.

Mr. DICKHUT was born near the center of Quincy on February 1, 1847. He is a son of Christian G. DICKHUT, Sr. The DICKHUT family has been in this country for more than eight decades. Christian G. DICKHUT grew up at Quincy, was educated in the common schools, and has lived here practically all his life. He was a very small boy, only fourteen, when the war broke out, but he showed the spirit of his patriotism by attempting to get into the army and finally succeeded in February, 1865, at the age of eighteen. He served in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry under Colonel Fonda and Captain Rorabaugh. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1865, and his desire for active fighting was never gratified. He is a member of Wood Post No. 96, Grand Army of the Republic, and is now junior vice commander.

Up to the age of twenty-four Mr. DICKHUT lived at home and gave all his earnings to his parents. At that age he went to work as a teamster, and along that line has continued steadily to the present time. In 1876 he began hauling coal for different companies in the city, and in 1905 became agent and collector for the Wabash Coal Company. In 1915 he transferred his services in the same capacity to the Quincy Coal Company. He is well known himself and is probably acquainted with more people in Quincy than any other citizen. He has always been a steady worker and a man of great energy, and in a long period of years can remember only taking five days away from business. He has the physique that justifies such a record. He is a large man, six feet tall, very active and could give a handicap to many men nearly half his age. Politically Mr. DICKHUT is a republican, and began voting the ticket for General Grant half a century ago.

At Quincy February 6, 1873, he married Elizabeth B. THOLE, who was born in Quincy September 8, 1853. She died at her home in this city March 3, 1913. Her parents were natives of Germany, but for many years lived in Quincy. Mrs. DICKHUT was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of her children nine reached maturity, three sons and six daughters. One son, a railroad man, was killed in a railroad wreck near Canyon City, Colorado, March 16, 1906, at the age of twenty-six. His death was a grievous blow to the mother and the shock was such that she was never able to do a day's work after the sad news reached her. One daughter, Della, born August 9, 1874, died August 3, 1912. The living children are: Minnie, wife of George DASBACH; Alfred, a machinist at Quincy, who is married and has a son and daughter: Emma F., a stenographer employed in the Swift Packing Company at Chicago; Irene, a stenographer for the State Street Bank of Quincy; Myrtle, who is housekeeper for her father; Ralph, a member of the Quincy Fire Department; and Ruth, a stenographer for the Quincy Carriage Company.

QUINCY AND Adams County, ILLINOIS, Vol II by David Wilcox. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919. pp 1186-1187.