El
Dorado County
Biographies
WILLIAM S. HICKMAN, M. D.
In the enterprising city of
Georgetown all business enterprises are represented, and among the residents of
the place are number capable members of the professions. A well known and prominent member of the
medical fraternity is Dr. William S. Hickman, who has attained a position of
distinction in the line of his chosen calling.
He is a native of Tennessee, born at Dandridge, on the 6th of
December, 1856. At the age of ten years
his father and the family removed to Knoxville, where the subject of this
sketch was reared and educated. The
Doctor is descended from an old Virginian family. His father, C. A. C. Hickman, was born in
Virginia and was reared and educated in the Old Dominion. When a young man he removed to Tennessee,
where he married Miss Lucinda C. Jett, a native of that state and a daughter of
Edwin T. Jett, a gentleman of Scotch ancestry.
The Doctor’s father was a planter and a gentleman of marked ability and
strong influence in the community where he made his home. At the time of the Civil War he espoused the
cause of the Union and upheld the supremacy of the national government in
Washington. He died in 1891, at the age
of seventy-two years, his wife having preceded him to the great beyond four
years, dying in her fifty-sixth year.
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were people of
the highest respectability who enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who
knew them.
Dr. Hickman was the third in a
family of nine children. Deciding to
devote his life to the practice of medicine and surgery, he entered the medical
department of Vanderbilt University, completing the course and graduating at
that institution in March, 1886. He
immediately afterward came to Georgetown, where he opened an office, and after
practicing for four years he went to New York and took a post-graduate course
at the New York Polyclinic. He then
returned to Georgetown and today is enjoying a very large patronage, which has
come to him by reason of his marked skill land ability in the line of his
chosen vocation.
The Doctor gives his political
allegiance to the Republican Party, yet he is liberal and independent in his
views. He is a valued member of the
Masonic fraternity, belonging to the blue lodge, chapter and commandery, and is
very active in the order, being thoroughly familiar with its tenets and its
principles which he exemplifies in his daily contact with his fellow men. He is a past master of the blue lodge and
thrice past and high priest of the chapter, and in 1895 he was made a Sir
Knight. He is also a member and past
grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Since locating in Georgetown he has manifested a deep and commendable
interest in everything pertaining to its advancement and welfare, withholding
his support from no measure or movement calculated to prove of general
good. He has acquired a very enviable
reputation in the line of his profession and has a host of warm friends who
regard him highly by reason of his professional skill and of his many estimable
qualities.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 663-664. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
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Gerald Iaquinta.
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