Thomas Dixon, Jr., lecturer, writer and clergyman, was born in Shelby,
North Carolina, January 11, 1864, his father being the Rev. Thomas
Dixon. He graduated from Wake Forest college, North Carolina, in 1883,
from the Greensboro, North Carolina, law school in 1886, and from
Johns Hopkins university in 1899. Harriet Bussey became his wife on
March 3, 1886, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a member of the North
Carolina legislature from 1884 to 1886. Resigning in order to enter
the ministry, he was ordained a Baptist clergyman in 1887, taking
a pastorate at Raleigh, North Carolina, and late in the same year
accepted a call to Boston. Two years later he came to New York, where
he has become noted by reason of his pulpit treatment of topics of
the day in a manner uniquely his own. He is the author of several
works on religious and social problems, one of which, The Failure of
Protestantism in New York, which was published in 1897, has attracted
much attention. Mr. Dixon is a forceful speaker, a man of magnetic
presence, and possesses the courage of his convictions to a high degree.