Wicks, Norris B. (1858-1927)

WICKS

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Date: 9/15/2019 at 20:36:47

Norris B. Wicks
Feb 28, 1858 - July 27, 1927

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.479)
N. B. WICKS, Captain of Hose No. 3, has been connected with the fire department of Council Bluffs since 1876. He was born in Shelby County, Iowa, February 28, 1858, a son of Mansel and Electa M. (BRADLEY) WICKS, natives of New York and Connecticut, and of English extraction. Mr. WICKS was reared in Council Bluffs since 1865, and when but sixteen years of age was engaged at steam engineering, which he has followed more or less since that time. In 1876, he joined the volunteer department of firemen of this city, and in 1888 was made Captain of Hose No. 3. Politically, he is a Democrat, and is a member of the I.O.O.F., No. 49, and also of Red Men, Pottawattamie Tribe, No. 21.