Hickman, Charles

HICKMAN

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/29/2021 at 11:57:54

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.571

CHARLES HICKMAN
Charles Hickman, a practical, enterprising and progressive farmer living on section 19, Lincoln Township, owns and cultivates one hundred and sixty acres of land, constituting a neat and well improved farm. It adjoins the corporation limits of Indianola and its well kept appearance is proof of the careful supervision and untiring energy of the owner. He has made his home in Warren County since 1865. His birth occurred in London, England, August 18, 1839. He came to the new world with his father, Edward Hick­man, in 1848, and settled first in Philadelphia. He was a jeweler by trade, and after being thus employed in Philadelphia for a time he removed to New Jersey. He then located on the farm in Burlington County where he carried on the work of tilling the soil for a number of years.
Charles Hickman was reared on a farm and early became familiar with the work of the fields from the time of early spring planting until the crops were harvested in the late autumn. During the Civil War he served on the construction corps in Virginia and drove a team while in the army of the Potomac. In 1865 he came west to Iowa and as his financial condition rendered immediate employment a necessity, he secured work as a farm hand, and was thus employed for several years. He was married in Indianola by the Rev. Clammer, in 1866, to Miss Anna A. Rogers, a daughter of Joseph Rogers, and a native of New Jersey. The family removed to Iowa during her early girlhood so that she was reared in Warren County. After their marriage the young couple located on a farm in Lincoln Township, which Mr. Hickman rented, cultivating it for several years. He brought it under a high state of cultivation and when his work had secured for him a substantial competence he purchased one hundred and sixty acres, where he now resides, and at once began to improve and farm this property. He has since built a neat resi­dence, has set out evergreen trees, which greatly enhance the attractive ap­pearance and promote the value of the place. He also planted an orchard, has fenced the fields and has made a valuable property. For nine years he has now rented the farm, but gives to it his personal supervision and has two sets of farm buildings on the place.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hickman have been born the following children: Ed­ward, who carried on farming in this County; Charles, who is cultivating the home farm; George, who is a business man of Indianola; Furman, who lives at home, and Mary, the wife of James Wear, a farmer of St. Marys. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman also lost one child in infancy.
The parents are both consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr Hickman is a Republican, but has no desire for office although he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He is well known in Indianola as a man of sterling character and worth who has long been identified with the development of this county and has ever borne his share in the work of public progress and improvement. At the same time he has carefully managed his business interests so that in the course of years he has gained a place among the men of influence of the community.