Mr.Dixon was born in the town of Shelby, North Carolina, and was for some years pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Raleigh.
The Hall of History, containing a great variety of State relics, is one of the most fascinating museums I ever visited.

Too much praise cannot be given Colonel Fred A.Olds and Mr.Marshall De Lancey Haywood, of the North Carolina Historical Society, for making it what it is.

As with the Confederate Museum in Richmond, so, here, it is impossible to give more than a faint idea of the interest of the museum's contents.

Among the exhibits of which I made note, I shall, however, mention a few.

There was a letter written from Paris in the handwriting of John Paul Jones, requesting a copy of the Constitution of North Carolina; there was the Ku Klux warning issued to one Ben Turner of Northampton County; and there was an old newspaper advertisement signed by James J.Selby, a tailor, dated at Raleigh, June 24, 1824, offering a reward of ten dollars for the capture and return of two runaways: "apprentice boys, legally bound, named William and Andrew Johnson." The last named boy was the same Andrew Johnson who later became a distinctly second-rate President of the United States.