My Genealogy Hound

I. G. HICKMAN, farmer and fruit grower, post office McKeesport, was born near Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pa., July 13, 1821. His father, Peter Hickman, was born, in Northumberland county, and his mother, Christina, in Chambersburg, where they were married in 1811. They reared a family of eleven children, four of whom are living. In 1824, when I. G. was less than three years old, the family removed, and located on a farm in North Versailles township, Allegheny county, his father dying Sept. 5, 1840, and his mother Sept. 28, 1884, After the death of his father, Mr. Hickman purchased the old homestead, on which he now resides; and, by industry, has acquired three other valuable tracts of land in the same neighborhood, and lying in the coal and gas belt. In 1844 Mr. Hickman was married to Eliza Jane Brown, of Pittsburgh. Their children number eleven: I. G., of Nebraska; Eliza Jane, deceased; Margaret A., wife of Rev. S. E. Snider, P. E. of Helena district, Montana; Henry J., minister; Wesley C., deceased; Maria J., now Mrs. R. B. Miller; James E., deceased; Mary C., wife of J. C. Wiltshire; Edward D., principal of Third ward schools, McKeesport; William Page, deceased, and Robert L., minister. Mr. Hickman is a man of very decided opinions, and has been called upon to represent the township and church in almost every capacity. He has long been a member of the Methodist Church, in which he has been an ardent worker. His first vote was cast with the whig party; he has voted with the republican party from its organization until recently, when he became identified with the prohibition party, owing to convictions on the temperance question.