William T. Dixon

William T. Dixon (September 8, 1833 – June 3, 1909) was an educator and Baptist minister in Brooklyn, New York.

William Spellman and in the fall of 1863 he took charge of the Concord Church of Christ at Brooklyn, New York, and was ordained December 17, 1863.

[5] With Perry, Dixon was editor in the Printing Department of the Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention involved in the printing of numerous newspapers and journals, including Sunbeam, The People's Journal, and The National Monitor.

He gave the introductory sermon at an annual meeting of the Long Island Baptist Association.

He held offices of president and of corresponding secretary of the Northeast Baptist Missionary Convention.

[9] He founded the first black post of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans organization, in about 1879, and was made an honorary member in August 1907.

[10] In 1902 he was granted a Doctor of Divinity by State Baptist College in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dixon from his obituary in the New York Age.