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Capt. John L. Hicks, a successful planter of Ashland Township, was born in Phillips County, Ark., in September, 1846, being one of six children in the family of Allen W. and Mary J. (Lamb) Hicks. The former was a native of North Carolina, where he met and married Miss Lamb, of the same State. In 1826, moving to Tennessee (Madison County), he resided there for fourteen years, but in 1840 immigrated to Arkansas, and first located in Phillips County. He afterward moved to Little Rock, taking up his residence where his son now lives in Ash Bottom (in 1852), at one time in Pulaski County. Here Mr. Hicks operates quite an extensive plantation. When Lonoke County was made, a large portion of his place was taken into that territory. He now has upward of 500 acres of land in an excellent state of cultivation, in connection with which is a heavily timbered tract of about 100 acres. J. L. Hicks grew up on the place which he now owns. He received a good education at the higher schools and colleges of his native State, becoming thoroughly qualified to fill any position in after life, and when quite young (running away from school to do so) he enlisted in Maj. W. E. Woodruff’s battery, and served till the close of the war, surrendering at Washington, Hempstead County. He was commissioned captain by Govs. Garland and Baxter, and participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Mansville, Jenkins’ Ferry and Helena, also at the surrender of Little Rock, where a large portion of his company was wounded. Capt. Hicks has resided in Little Rock a portion of the time since the war; he was elected and served as treasurer of that city for one year, at the expiration of that time resigning. In 1876 he was married in Phillips County to Miss Emma B. Hicks, a daughter of Edwin A. Hicks. Mrs. Hicks was educated in Phillips County, and is an estimable lady, enjoying the friendship of a wide circle of acquaintances. One son has been born to this union, Allen W., now past his twenty-first year. Capt. Hicks was chairman of the first Democratic central committee of Pulaski County, after the reconstruction. He is a liberal contributor to all enterprises that betoken the good and advancement of the county, enthusiastic in behalf of its growth, and by his influence and enterprise has come to be well and favorably known.