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HICKCOX, John Howard, librarian, was born in Albany. X.Y.. Auk-!•». l^:i~; son of Hamlet H. and Hannah (Mull) Hickcox. He was edu- cated at the Albany academy; was assistant librarian in the New York state library, Albany, 18.")S-6-t; and engaged in the second-hand book business in Wasliiugton, 1863-74. He was em- ployed in the Congressional library, Washington, D.C., 18T4-ti2, and again conducted a second-hand book business at Washington 1883-85. He was Washington correspondent for the American Geographical society, 181(5-97. Besides contri- butions to periodicals he is the author of: An Historical Account of American Coinage, with plates (1858); History of the Bills of Credit or Pajitr Money, 1709-1789 (18G5); Bihliography of the Writings of Dr. Franklin B. Hough (188C); and Catalogue of United States Government Pub- lications (ten vols., 1885-94). He also compiled appendixes to the American Catalogue (1884-95). He died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1897.

HICKMAN, John, representative, was born in Chester county. Pa., Sept. 11, 1810. He acquired a thorough classical education and began the study of medicine, but abandoned it for law and was admitted to the bar in 1833, practising in West Chester, Pa. In 1845 he was appointed district attorney for Chester county, and held the office fifteen months. He was a Democratic representa- tive in the 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th congresses, 1855-63, declining a re-election to the 38th con- gress. He changed his views on the question of slavery extension and in 1860 became a Republi- can. In the same j'ear he was a prominent can- didate for the Republican nomination lor the Yice-Presidenc}'. He was subsequently a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. He died iu West Chester, Pa., March 23, 1875.

HICKMAN, William Howard, educator, was born in Crab Orchard Spring, Ky., Oct. 15, 1844; eon of John and Sarah (Pitts) Hickman; grand- son of Mike Hickman, an officer in the war of 1812, stationed at Norfolk, Va., and of Elijah and Elizabeth (Green) Pitts, of Abingdon, Va., and great-grandson of Peter Hickman, a Revolution- ary soldier who immigrated from Germany to America about the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury and entered a large tract of land in Sullivan county, Tenn., on the Virginia line near Blount- ville. His parents removed to Lincoln county, Ky., where they both died when William Howard was very young. He was taken by an older brother to Crawfoi"dville, Ind., where he was brought up. He was a soldier in the 10th and 39th Indiana volunteers, 1801-04, and served in the Army of the Cumberland and with Kilpatrick in the march to the sea. He was captured and con- fined in Libby Prison, Riclimond, Va., when the war closed. He then studied medicine, but decided

to become a Methodist minister and entered Indi- ana Asbury university, Greencastle, where he paid his way through the course by teaching, and was graduated A. B. 1873, A.M. 1876. He joined the North-west Indiana conference of the M.R church in 1873, studied at the Garrett Biblical in- stitute and at the School of Oratory, Boston, Mass., and filled many of the leading pulpits of his conference, 1873-86. He was presiding elder of the Crawfordville di-strict, 1886-89; president of Clark university, Atlanta, Ga., 1889-93; pastor of the First M.E. church, Terre Haute, Ind., 1893- 96, when he was elected chancellor of De Pauw university to succeed Bishop Thomas Bowman, retired. He was elected a member of the board of managers of the Southern Education society; was a delegate to the general conference in 1888, alternate in 1892 and again a member in 1896. He was married in 1875 to Eliza, the onh' daugh- ter of Professor Hougham. of Perdue university. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from De Pauw university iu 1889.

HICKOK, Laurens Perseus, educator, was born in Bethel, Conn., Dec. 29, 1799. He was graduated from Union college, New York, in 1820^ and studied theology with the Rev. AVilliam Andrews and the Rev. Bennet Tyler, 1821-23. He was married, Oct. 8, 1822, to Elizabeth Taylor, of Bethel, Conn. He was pastor of the Presby- terian churcli at Kent, Conn., 1824-29; was in- stalled July 23, 1829, and ministered at Litchfield, Conn., 1829-36. In 1836 he became professor of theology in the Western Reserve college, Ohio, resigning in 1844 to accept the chair of Christian theology in Auburn Theological seminar}', where he served, 1844-52. He was professor of mental and moral science in Union college, 1852-68; vice-president, 1853-61; acting president, 1861- 67; tru.stee, 1867-69; and president, 1867-68. He resigned in 1868, and the last years of his lif& were spent in Amherst, Slass. He was modera- tor of the General Assemblj-, 1856. He received the degree of D.D. from Hamilton college in 1S43, and that of LL.D. from Amherst in 1866. He is the author of: Rational Psychology (1849); Moral Philosophy (1853); Empirical Psychology (1854; rev. ed., 1882); Rational Cosmology (1858); Creator and Creation '(1872); Humanity Im- mortal (1872); and Logic of Reason (1875). He died at Amherst, ]\Iass., May 6, 1888.

HICKOK, nilo Judson, clergyman, was born in New Haven, Vt., Aug. 22, 1809. He was gradu- ated at Middlebury college, Vt., A.B., 1835, A.M., 1838; was profe.ssor of languages at Delaware college, 1835-38; a student at Union Tlieological seminary, 1838-41; and a tutor at Middlebury college, 1840. He was ordained a Congregational minister. May 4, 1841; was tutor at Marietta college and pastor at Hanover, Ohio, 1841-44;