Samuel D. Dillon, proprietor of the Erin Livery Stable, was the second of a family of five sons and five daughters of William H. And Elizabeth (Cummings) Dillon. The parents are now living in Stewart County, where the father follows farming. They are of Scotch-Irish and Irish parentage. Samuel D. was born June 22, 1849, and was reared on a farm to the age of twenty-two, when, in 1873, he went to Little Rock, Ark., and remained one year. He then returned to Stewart County, Tenn., where he was appointed deputy sheriff, and served four years. He then traveled in the marble trade for three years. Then he engaged in merchandising in Dickson County, where he had established a business before quitting the road. May 1, 1883. He began the livery trade at Erin, in which he has been very successful. He was married, December 28, 1882, to Emma E. Parker, of Stewart County, the result of this union being one son, William G. The wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Dillon is a Democrat. He is one of the prominent and well respected citizens of the county.

Transcribed by Susan Knight Gore

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.