Final - Connecticut History
S.SHARON
dickermanstoriespresentation.pptxTelling Local Stories The Dickermans of Hamden
By
Eric D. Lehman
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Telling Stories of Our Homes
“One day you might stop at the ancient Jonathan Dickerman house to explore its modest rooms and primeval herb garden. Crossing the lane that Ezra Day rode to teach Sunday school, you could reflect on the longer path he took to glory and doom. A trail leads along the banks of the Mill River, past the crumbling stone foundation of the Axle Shop and to the site of Munson’s ancient dam, where a fly fisherman, the ghost of A.C. Gilbert perhaps, hooks a trout. Taking a fork in the path, you ascend through glacial wreckage to the lip of an old quarry. Below, arches and pillars of a ruin shimmer through the leaves. History itself seems to catch the corner of your eye.”
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The Amazing Dickerman Family
Ezra Day Dickerman
Elizabeth, Abbie, and Fannie Dickerman
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Details Make Stories
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The Importance of Sources: Where do we get our details from?
Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations with Additional Enlistments and Casualties
to July 1864. Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood, and Co., 1864.
Croffut, W.A. and John M. Morris. The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the
War of 1861-1865. 3rd edition. Revised. New York, NY: Ledyard Bill, 1869.
Dickerman, Edward Dwight and George Sherwood Dickerman. Families of Dickerman Ancestry:
Descendents of Thomas Dickerman. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Press, 1897.
Dickerman, George Sherwood. The Old Mount Carmel Parish: Origins and Outgrowths. New
Haven : Yale University Press for New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1925.
Dickerman, John. H. Colonial history of the Parish of Mt. Carmel. New Haven: Press of Ryder’s
Printing House. 1904.
Hartley, Rachel. The History of Hamden, Connecticut 1786-1936. Hamden, CT: Quinnipiack
Press, 1943.
Manual of the Mount Carmel Congregational Church. 1929.
McCain, Diana Ross. Connecticut’s African-American Soldiers in the Civil War. Hartford, CT:
Connecticut Historical Commission, 2000.
Niven, John. Connecticut for the Union. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
Warren, Israel. The Sisters. Boston: American Tract Society, 1859.
Three Sisters Against Fate
The Mount Carmel
Female Seminary
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Little Brother Ezra Day Grows Up
The 10th Connecticut at Roanoke Island
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Captain of the Whitney Rifles
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Defeat at Chancellorsville
Hamden’s Other Civil War Heroes
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Ezra’s Heroic Dash to Gettysburg
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A Family at War with Tragedy
“When he was dragged back behind the lines, the battlefield surgeons pronounced this third war wound hopeless, and left him to die.”
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Telling stories
of heroes…
Who’s Next?
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The Dickerman Legacy Today
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We must celebrate local history, not only with plaques and memorials, but by keeping the stories alive, in our hearts, and in indelible words. Otherwise we become a nation of self-important nomads, connected to nothing but abstraction and speculative ideas.
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