Milburn Dixon

ilburn Dixon was the son of Robert Dixon, who Mowned a grist mill and saw mill. Milburn went to

the USA as a young man, worked in the mines in Butte, Montana, and came back and bought his uncle George’s farm and ran a factory at the shore on his farm and gave work to many fishermen. Also, a few men and several women canned lobsters. At that time lobsters were plentiful and cheap. They did not use all the meat of the lobster bodies, which he used for fertilizer. Along with this he used lots of seaweed and together these fer- tilizers made his farm one of the best. He used to hire a farmer we called Slim Jim. His home was in Iris. Milburn had a very loud voice and I can still hear him yelling at his horses. He had two children, James and Verna. He hired his threshing crew and also men for sawing wood.

Milburn married Ida MacMillan who was a first cousin of my grandmother. Milburn was quite a story teller and would finish with “If you don’t believe me, ask Ida.” He had a kind streak. He had a large apple orchard be— hind the house. He often visited our home along with several men who sat around the kitchen trading stories. We children always liked to see him coming as he always

had his pockets full of apples, which was always quite a treat.

Later on, his uncle, who owned Dixon mill at Eldon, was getting old, living alone and he had become a recluse

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