Rev. W. J. Hicks, paster of the
Universalist society, Strawberry Point, is a native of
Readsboro, Bennington County, Vt.; born March 3, 1824,
and was a son of Jacob, and Betsy Hicks, the former a
native of New Hampshire, the latter of Massachusetts. He
received his early education in Readsboro; then attended
the Whitingham Academy a number of years, and finished
his education at Rowe, Mass. In 1844, having engaged in
several branches of business in the meantime. He was
appointed pastor of a church at Sadawga, Vt., where he
remained eleven years, then located in Strawberry Point.
He has devoted a portion of his time to the Universalist
Church at Elkader. Being a man of high literarcy
attainments, and superior intellectual endowments, he is
eminently fitted for the noble calling he has chosen, and
has succeeded in doing much good. He was married to Lucy
E. Bemis, a native of Whitingham, Vt. on Apirl 20, 1845
in Readsboro, that state. They have three children--Sarah
E., Fannie E., and Mary B. Mr. Hicks is a member of the
Masonic lodge, of which he is Chaplain. In poltics he is
a Republican. source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa, 1882, p. 697 |