Hickman, George W.

HICKMAN, DAVIS, MOFFITT, DEUTSCH

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 8/12/2009 at 19:35:21

George W. Hickman carries on general farming on section 12, Sherman Township, Jasper County. He is one of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of the community, and well deserves representation in this volume. He claims Indiana as the state of his nativity. Randolph County is the place of his birth, and the date is July 2, 1836. His parents were John and Dinah (Davis) Hickman. Both were natives of North Carolina, and became early settlers of Randolph County, Ind., there locating in 1828.
George W. Hickman remained in the county of his nativity until a youth of fifteen years, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Iowa, the family locating in. Henry County. The journey was made by team and wagon, and they there continued to reside until 1853, when the family came to Jasper County and settled on the farm, which is now the home of our subject. At that time Sherman Township was a part of Newton Township. The parents died in this locality.

Our subject acquired the greater part of his education in the schools of Iowa; and in his early youth he attended the subscription schools of Indiana, He had not the advantages of a higher education, but he has been a great reader through life, and his studies in private have made him a well-informed man. As a companion and helpmate on life's journey he chose Miss Tamer C. Moffitt, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of Stephen and Mary Moffitt. Their union was celebrated September 17, 1857, and has been blessed with six children, four of whom are living, viz.: Harlan H.; Ionia, wife of William Deutsch; Josephine and Stephen C.

Mr. Hickman has followed farming throughout his entire life, and is now owner of one hundred and sixty acres of rich and valuable land, the greater part of which is under a high state of cultivation, while the place is highly improved with good buildings and all modern accessories and conveniences, It is neat and thrifty in appearance, and indicates the enterprise and public spirit of the owner. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hickman are members of the Presbyterian Church, Their home is the abode of hospitality, and in social circles they hold an enviable position, their friends throughout the community being many. In his political views Mr. Hickman is a Republican, and has served as Trustee of Sherman Township for several terms. He has ever borne his share of the up building and development of the county, and is ever found in the front rank of those enterprises calculated to promote the general welfare. His many excellencies of character have won him high regard, and it is with pleasure that we present to our readers this record of his life. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA Page 426.