THOMAS N. BICKET
Thomas N. Bicket, son of Samuel and Mary Bicket, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1848. His parents died in that county. Thomas N. Bicket and Josephine Hite were married February 28, 1866. She was born in 1849 in the same county. He followed farming in Pennsylvania until 1876, then came to Iowa, and settled in Cedar county, where lived a short time in Howard county, Iowa. In 1866 he removed to Jasper county, where he remained about five years. He then removed to Clay county, and remained six years, after which he returned to Jasper county, and two years later came to Cass county. After living here about two years, he bought eighty acres of land in section 24 of Bear Grove township, which is now his residence. He also owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Clay county. Mr. Hazlett was he farmed upon rented land three years. [???Apparent error in original] He then removed to Cass county, and rented a farm in Atlantic township, where he lived four years on the same place, after which he purchased the farm on which he now lives, on section 11, Bear Grove township. It contains eighty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Bicket have eight children - Jennie, Mary, Tillie, Robert, William, James, Jessie and Amy.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 727-728.
