Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 536
E. S. HICKS

E. S. HICKS, merchant tailor at Dunlap, came to that place September 24, 1883. He is a native of Cornwall, England, where he was reared and spent his early life. He lived on a farm and was educated in the public schools until he was thirteen years of age, when he was thrown form a horse, receiving an injury on his right leg, which caused him to seek other employment, so he chose the tailor's trade, serving an apprenticeship of five years, after which he came to America with his parents, who settled at DeWitt, Iowa. Our subject worked for three months at Maquoketa, Iowa, and from there went to Davenport, where he engaged with Thomas McCULLOUGH, and remained six months, when he received a position as cutter for W. H. TAYLOR, of Iowa City, with whom he was employed for six years and a half, and then went to Council Bluffs and worked at his trade two years, which perhaps proved a providential trip to him, for it was there that he met Miss Belle BROWN, whom he married February 16, 1882. She is the daughter of Hugh and Ann E. (LYNCH) BROWN. She was born in Kansas City, Mo., May 28, 1860. Her father fought during the entire Civil War period, and now, though aged sixty-four years, he is known as the best stair-builder and contractor of fine work at Council Bluffs.

After leaving Council Bluffs, our subject went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he worked a year, and at Creston, Iowa, eighteen months, and then came to Dunlap, and went to work for M. BARRETT & SONS, with whom he was associated two years and six months, when he went to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he was laid up one year by reason of sickness. After he recovered he returned to Dunlap, and worked for BARRETT & SONS until February 5, 1891, when he had another mishap, breaking his limb, and as soon as he was able to get around he opened up a tailor shop of his own in the CHAMBERLAIN building, on Iowa Avenue. His first month's business amounted to $1,100, and he now enjoys the best trade of any one in his line in the county. He is on the road part of the time soliciting orders, and is what may be termed a "hustler."

Politically, Mr. HICKS is a stanch Republican, believing that party works for the interests of the masses of American citizens, including the laboring man.

Mrs. HICKS is a lady of refinement and culture, with rare accomplishments in both vocal and instrumental music, and is one of the leading spirits in the social element of Dunlap. She gives instructions in music and is a gent for a large line of musical instruments; gives musical entertainment's for the benefit of the church and benevolent societies, and is a lady of whom the world has none too many.

Our subject is a great admirer of horses, and is interested in some very good animals, and generally speaking, is a wide-awake businessman. His taste for fine horses comes in a natural way, as his father was a great horseman, and during twenty-five years of his life owned some of the best running horses in England.

His father died in Clinton County in 1872, at the age of fifty-eight years. The mother still lives in that county, at the age of seventy-three years. They reared a family of eleven children: James A., a farmer in Clinton County; David, a farmer in Clinton County; Susan, wife of Richard BENTON, a farmer of Clinton county; Amelia, wife of James T. WALKER, a farmer of Clinton County; Escott S., our subject; Sarah, wife of Robert BAACCHUS, a farmer of Clinton county; Caroline, wife of Prof. W. F. HANSON, of Fulton, Ill.; John M., a farmer of Clinton County; Ralph C., of the same county; and Mary, the oldest of the family, who died when twenty-one years of age.

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