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[newspaper article with text and photograph with caption "William F. Dix":] North
Jersey Courier, Friday, December 26, 1930 The home of William F. Dix, 235 Tillou Road, South Orange resembles a museum. It houses one of the finest collections of armor and weapons in the country, is filled with hand-carved brasses, old Spanish chests and many other rarities that delight the eyes of a connesseur [sic]. To Mr. Dix they have a special significance as he made most of the collections himself, in numerous tours to strange and unfrequented sections of the world.Mr. Dix is secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, but has many other interests besides business. He
is author, playwright, artist, student as well. Versatility is the keynote
of his makeup. He is the author of two novels, scores of magazine and
other articles. Before
moving to his South Orange home he lived on Washington street, East Orange.
He was born in Newark in 1867 into an old and distinguished family. He
is the eighth generation of Dix in this country. A brother, Edwin, now
deceased, is author of many novels. His eldest son, Tennille, was killed
recently in an airplane crash in Morocco. He was on his honeymoon and
his bride was killed with him. As with so many residents of the residents of the Oranges listed in Who's Who, Mr. Dix is a Princeton man. He graduated in the class of 1889 with high honors in English. He was interested in social and literary activities at college, but not in athletics. He was at one time trustee of Adelphi College, Brooklyn; is now trustee and treasurer of the Carnegie Fund. He is treasurer of the Authors' Club of America. Other clubs are Princeton, Westhampton Country, Orange Lawn Tennis, Crystal Lake Skating, and Rock Spring Country. He was captain of the Orange Rifles, a colonel in the New York Police Reserves. He was consul-general of Montenegro during and after the war, was decorated by King Nicholas. He is a devotee of the fine art of living, has not let his interests in business and finance dull a student's attitude towards the world about him.
The
Orange Chronicle, Saturday, June 9, 1900 Burke's
Genealogical and Heraldic History Of the Landed Gentry Including American
Families With British Ancestry, 1939 New
York Herald Tribune, Wednesday, September 12, 1945
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2002 Gabriel Brooke, (website).
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