HICKS, Jacob

HICKS, DOTY, FROST, RODMAN, COLLINS, WHITMAN, HAIGHT, WOOD, CASE, CRINKLOW, BAYLISS

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 12/30/2001 at 07:50:49

PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.)
Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county.  (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)

(P. 636-637) JACOB HICKS. One of the first to make settlement in Deep Creek Township, and a gentleman who has made that his home since coming to the county, is the subject of this biographical notice, who is located on section 17. He was born in Summit township, Schoharie Co., N. Y., May 21, 1815. His father, Isaac Hicks, was a farmer by occupation, and was born in Dutchess County, N. Y. He was the eldest son of John Hicks, a native of that county, and a direct descendant of Robert Hicks, who came from England to this country in the good ship Fortune, that followed in the tracks of the Mayflower, arriving in November, 1621. It was this ship that brought over the remaining members of families that had come here the year prior on the Mayflower. Robert Hicks was a leather-dresser by trade, and the genealogy of the Hicks family in the United State is traced back to him. Robert’s son John was the father of Thomas, who was the father of Jacob, the father of Joseph, and Joseph was the father of John, who was the grandfather of our subject. He married Elizabeth Doty, and by her had nine children, whom they reared to maturity, one of whom was Isaac Hicks, the father of our subject, and the eldest of his parents’ children. He was a farmer by occupation and lived and died in Dutchess County, N. Y., and the family are quite numerous in that State and are well-known and respected agriculturists. Our subject’s brother and nine sisters are all residents of New York, and are noted for longevity, the eldest being at this writing eighty-eight years of age. In religion the Hicks family, as a general thing, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics were formerly Jeffersonian Democrates, but later joined the ranks of the Republican party. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Sarah Frost, was an American by birth. Our subject’s parents died in Schoharie County, N.: Y., the father when sixty-five years of age, and the mother aged eighty years.Jacob Hicks lived with his parents, and was under their guidance and care until he was twenty-two years of age. Prior to this, however, and about the time he attained man’s estate, he was married, in his native county, to Miss Angeline Rodman. The ceremony was performed Oct. 18, 1836. She was born in Schoharie County, May 25, 1815, and her father was a farmer in York State. Mrs. Hicks was the seventh child in order of birth of a family of fifteen children, thirteen of whom lived to attain the age of man and womanhood, were married, and attained a good old age. She passed her younger years at home, helping her mother in the household duties, until her marriage. She has been the mother of nine children, six of whom are living: Joseph was united in marriage with Louisa Collins, and has three children -- Orville, Edith and Clara -- and lives in Deep Creek Township. Madison selected Miss Louisa Whitman as his life companion, and they are living in Calhoun County, and have five children -- Martin, Ralph, Earl, Alice, and an infant unnamed. Andrew and Miss Cynthia Haight were united in marriage, and are living in Greene County, Iowa, where he is engaged in farming, and they have two children -- Emma and Maude. Sarah A. Hicks and Charles Wood were married, and are living on a farm in Calhoun County, and are the parents of two children -- Andrew and Adna; Philetus married Miss Emma Case, and they have three children -- Pearl, Maude and Minnie; he is engaged in farming in Calhoun County; John married Alice Crinklow, and lives in Calhoun County, engaged in farming. Mary E. was the wife of Cyrus Bayliss, and had three children -- Elmer, Elvin and May -- and is now deceased. Myers and Hiram Hicks died aged about two years.In the spring of 1856 our subject, hoping to better his financial condition in life, left his native State and started overland for Iowa. He first stopped at Galena, and then came to Deep Creek Township, this county, and settled on a farm which he rented, and lived in a little log cabin. In the latter part of the same year he purchased eighty acres of land near Preston, Jackson County. Subsequently he sold the latter tract and moved to Deep Creek Township, and located as above mentioned. He has eighty acres of land, and has met with more than ordinary success as a farmer. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he votes with the Republican party.