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Edward Dix (1616)
John Dix (1640)
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Jonathan Dix (1745)
John Dix (1782)
Asa Clapp Dix (~1813)
John Edwin Dix (1816)
Mary Adelaide Dix (1819)
Edwin Augustus Dix (1860)
William Frederick Dix (1867)
Alison Joy Dix (1905)
Tennille Dix (1902)
Norman Brooke Dix (1909)
Eleanor Alice Dix (1941)
Joy Tennille Dix (1947)
Elizabeth Gay Brooke Dix (1952)
Ann Alexandra Dix (1957)

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William Frederick Dix

[newspaper article with text and photograph with caption "William F. Dix":]

North Jersey Courier, Friday, December 26, 1930
Collects Armor and Weapons
Visits Strange Sections

By Meador Wright
Associate Editor

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.
As a writer he started his career. In 1890 after the conclusion of a world tour he became editor of the Churchman of New York. Four years later he became editor of the Home Journal of New York, later changed to Town and Country. In 1906 after the Hughes investigation he became secretary of the Mutual Life, and has held that position since.

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.
A daughter, Alison Joy, and a son, Norman B., live in South Orange. Mrs. Dix was Mary Alice Tennille of East Orange. She is a landscape painter of much talent and joins her husband in the activities of the Listentome Club and other local organizations.

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.


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