Robert Munroe Dickenson, student 1838-1839

Robert Munroe Dickenson received his medical degree from the University of Louisiana in 1843. He practiced medicine first in Tennessee and then moved to Louisiana, where he was a doctor in Jackson, LA in the 1850 census. He was a physician in Ashley County, AR at the outbreak of the war. He was exempt from regular military service due to his occupation and age, serving instead in the Ashley County Home Guard which was organized in November 1863.

He moved to Paris,TN in 1868 and practiced medicine. Dr. Dickenson purchased the Paris Intelligencer newspaper and was editor until 1882, when he moved to Orlando, FL. He died on May 4, 1900 and is buried in Orlando's Greenwood Cemetery.