Joe Dixon (Sr.) quiet, civic-minded, behind the scenes political player... decided to go for it in June of 1890 and make a public proposal for a new plan of assessment for values which were the basis for property taxes. So not the simple farmer. Valuations, which were reported every year in The Albion Journal, do not necessarily show Joe (Sr.) to qualify for the “substantial farmer” moniker, but he did appear in the list of wealthier folks every other year or so. Near the bottom of that list. Let’s say middle to upper-middle class range.
He wanted to lenders to pay their fair share. In his mind, if a farmer owned the property he farmed, but owed money equivalent to a large part of the property’s value to a lender, it was the lender who essentially owned the bulk of the property.
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