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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fred Arrington, the present County-
District Clerk, and the author of this book,
was born in Palo Pinto County. His parents
were L. C. Arrington and Mattie Edmiston.
He was two years old when his mother died
and his father came to Dickens County in a
covered wagon with four small children
and the baby girl was only three months
old.
His father settled in the Lower Cotton-
wood community and the children at-
tended a one teacher school until 1916,
when the family moved to Dickens and he
finished High School. He attended college
at Tech and ACC for two years. He also
attended Draughons Business College in
Abilene. He taught school at McAdoo,
Dickens, Prairie Chapel, Amity, and Dun-
can Flat for eight years.
In 1929 he went to work at the Court-
house and he has worked in all of the of-
fices; he has worked in the county-District
Clerk's office for twenty-five years; he was
re-elected for another term of four years. If
he can finish the coming term out, it will
make him forty-two years in the court-
house.
He is very thankful to all the people of
Dickens County, the county, that he loves
so well, for keeping him in office these
many years. He has spent all of his life ex-
cept the first two years in Dickens County.
He married Ruth Dittrich, a school
teacher from Denton, Texas, August 24,
1935. She taught school seventeen years at
Bond's Chapel, Girard, Midway and Dick-
ens. She has been active in Home Demon-
stration Club Work, and she won first place
on her yard demonstration in 1937, and re-
ceived a trip to A&M College Short Course
for a week. She is a member in the Dickens
Civic Club, Dickens County Cancer
Society, and always doing church work.
She has a Degree from North Texas Uni-
versity at Denton.FRED ARRINGTON
(COUNTY- DISTRICT CLERK)He has served on the Selective Service
System for twenty-two years and he has a
Certificate of Appreciation for twenty
years service from the President of the
United States. He has worked with the
Dickens County Cancer Society for twenty
years, since its beginning and has been
president for five of these twenty years. He
has worked twenty-two years as a 4-H
leader in Dickens County, and is serving as
their secretary now. He has been president
of the Dickens Civic Club for two years and
has been secretary for six years. He has
taught a Bible Class in the Church of Christ
for over thirty years. He has worked dili-
gently with the Dickens County Historical
Museum. He has always stood for the
betterment of his community and county.
(A friend)
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Arrington, Fred. A History Of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains, book, 1971; [Dickens, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61098/m1/8/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .