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ROSS T.
HICKCOX
Industry and achievement have marked
the career of Ross T. Hickcox, member of the firm of Hickcox & O’Connor,
located in the Lankershim building in Los Angeles,
and head of the law firm of Hickcox, Trude & Robertson, with offices in EL Centro and
Brawley. Mr. Hickcox was born on a
cattle ranch at Deer Creek, Nebraska, March 24, 1874, a son of Clark A. and
Martha B. (Joiner) Hickcox, who were natives of Wisconsin, in which state they
were married. The family came to
California in 1892, settling on a ranch at Etiwanda, where the father remained
until his death in 1926. To Mr. and Mrs.
Clark A. Hickcox were born eleven children, of whom seven are now living.
The eldest, Ross T. Hickcox, was a
child when his parents removed to southeastern Kansas and at Girard, that
state, he pursued his education until graduated from high school with the class
of 1891, afterward teaching school there for a year. On coming to California he obtained work in a
general store at Lemoore, where he spent a year, and then began the study of
law in Los Angeles, attending the law school of the University of Southern California,
and entered upon the practice of law in Los Angeles, in 1896. In 1907 he formed a partnership with L. O. Crenshaw
and under the style of Hickcox & Crenshaw they conducted a law business in
Los Angeles until October, 1918, when they opened an office in El Centro, since
which time Mr. Hickcox has spent most of his time there. The Los Angeles law firm of Hickcox &
O’Connor was formed in 1928 and enjoys a liberal clientele. The firm of Hickcox,
Trude & Robertson was established in 1930 and is
generally regarded as the foremost legal organization in Imperial county [sic]. Through
experience and study Mr. Hickcox has constantly added to his store of legal
knowledge and is the owner of one of the largest and finest private libraries
in the state. His powers have grown
through the exercise of effort, placing him with the leaders of his profession
in California. He is a past president of
the Imperial County Bar Association, the California State Bar Association and
the American Bar Association.
In 1899 Mr. Hickcox was married in
Los Angeles to Miss Marie Frances Skinner, a daughter of Tristrem
L. Skinner, one of the influential men of that city. Mrs. Hickcox is active in the social life of
El Centro and in club work. Prompted by
the spirit of patriotism, Mr. Hickcox joined the Seventh California Regiment of
United States Volunteer Infantry in 1898, at the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war [sic], and was mustered out at Los Angeles in the same
year. During the World war [sic] he
served on the examining board, was active in behalf of the American Red Cross
and the various Liberty Loans, and was tendered a major’s commission. For two terms he was a trustee of the Los
Angeles Public Library and is now a member of the library board at El
Centro. He enjoys the sports of hunting
and fishing and is credited with having collected some of the rarest hunting
trophies possessed by any citizen of Southern California. He belongs to the Sigma Chi fraternity [sic] and
to the California Club, the San Gabriel Country Club and the Sierra Club.
Transcribed by Jeanne Turner.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 275-276,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Jeanne
Turner.
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