A.E. Dickinson became president of the Consolidated Limestone Company in 1925. On June 1, 1926 the Indiana Limestone Company came into existance; it was the merger of twenty-four limestone companies which included 21 quarries, 36 mills, and over 6,000 acres of land. Dickinson was named president . The merger represented 90% of the area limestone companies. In 1927 the Indiana Limestone Company quarried one million tons of limestone and was running its mills 24 hours a day.
Augustus and Bertha Dickinson were members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Bedford, Indiana; they donated the hand carved one-of-a-kind limestone rail and alter at the chancel. They also donated stained glass windows behind the alter to the memory of his parents, Frederick S. and Emma Elliott Dickinson and his grandmother, Jeanette Baird Dickinson.
They built a beautiful limestone home in Bedford at 1504 14th Street which still stands. The Dickinsons, along with his grandmother, moved to Barrington in the Chicago area, and he set up the Indiana Limestone Company offices in the Chicago Tribune Building.
A.E. Dickinson became president of the Consolidated Limestone Company in 1925. On June 1, 1926 the Indiana Limestone Company came into existance; it was the merger of twenty-four limestone companies which included 21 quarries, 36 mills, and over 6,000 acres of land. Dickinson was named president . The merger represented 90% of the area limestone companies. In 1927 the Indiana Limestone Company quarried one million tons of limestone and was running its mills 24 hours a day.
Augustus and Bertha Dickinson were members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Bedford, Indiana; they donated the hand carved one-of-a-kind limestone rail and alter at the chancel. They also donated stained glass windows behind the alter to the memory of his parents, Frederick S. and Emma Elliott Dickinson and his grandmother, Jeanette Baird Dickinson.
They built a beautiful limestone home in Bedford at 1504 14th Street which still stands. The Dickinsons, along with his grandmother, moved to Barrington in the Chicago area, and he set up the Indiana Limestone Company offices in the Chicago Tribune Building.
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