William H. Hickey

HICKEY, GILMORE

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Date: 1/12/2016 at 16:14:50

William H. Hickey

Representative from Cherokee county, was born in Rochester, New York in 1846 of Irish parentage. His education was received in the public schools of New York.

At the age of fifteen he moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and in 1866 to Allamakee county, Iowa, where he resided until 1875, when he moved to Cherokee county, settling on a farm in Diamond township, where he has since resided.

He was married in 1869 and has six children, three boys and three girls. He is a director of the First national Bank of Aurelia. Elected Representative in 1906. A Democrat in politics.

~source:
Iowa Official Register for the Years 1907-1908
22nd Number, Compiled Under the Supervision of William C. Hayward, Secretary of State, by Guy S. Brewer and John M. Jamieson; Des Moines, 1907; Biographies of State Representatives, pg 621

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Note: wife may have been Sarah Gilmore but the contributor has not confirmed this