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James Hickman, of Salem, Mo., was born in Monroe County, Ohio, in 1828, being the eighth of eleven children. He remained at home, working on the farm and attending school, until he attained his majority, and in 1851 was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Kinney, who was born in Ohio in 1833. Her parents, Timothy and Rachel Kinney, moved from Ohio to Carroll County, Mo., in 1865, and in 1870 moved to Dent. The father is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman became the parents of seven children, five of whom are living. One son, Siles P., resides at home, two sons and one daughter reside in Dent County, and the oldest daughter in Howell County. One of their daughters died in Ohio, in 1865, and one son in Missouri. On the 31st of December, 1861, Mr. Hickman enlisted in Company G, Seventy-seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth. April 25, 1864, while in the State of Arkansas, he was taken prisoner and kept at Camp Fort, Tex., until February 25, 1865, when he was exchanged, and returned home on a furlough of sixty days, and on account of poor health was allowed to remain. He received his discharge March 8, 1866. His eyesight was badly injured during the war, and with the exception of a short period he has been totally blind ever since. Until 1872 he resided in Monroe County, Ohio, since which time he has been a citizen of Dent County, Mo. He owns a good farm of 280 acres, with 100 under cultivation, on which are a commodious, two-story frame residence, large barn and other necessary buildings, and has five acres in orchard, consisting of young and bearing trees. He has 320 acres of timber land, located a short distance from the home place, and his wife has 160 acres of land on Current River, in Dent County. This river runs through the farm, and furnishes good water power, on which she has caused a grist-mill to be built, and has placed it in charge of her oldest son, Timothy, who is a millwright and miller. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman were members of the Protestant Methodist Church when in Ohio, but have never united with any church in Missouri. Mr. Hickman is a Republican in politics, and is a son of William and Mary (Green) Hickman, the former, being a native of Pennsylvania. He died in Monroe County, Ohio, in 1858, at the age of sixty-eight years, whither he had moved at an early day. His wife was of English lineage, and died in Ohio, in 1856, at the age of sixty years.