Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Hickman, P. N. 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   HON. P. N. HICKMAN, solicitor of Coffee county, was born in Upson county,
Ga., in 1856. He is a son of Joseph M. and Sarah A. (Smith) Hickman, both born
in Upson county, Ga., in 1825, the former in August and the latter in February.
In 1861 they removed to Butler county, Ala., where Mr. Hickman died in December,
1887, and where Mrs. Hickman still lives. Both were members of the Baptist
church for many years. Mr. Hickman was a man of great energy and physical
endurance and. strength, and by his industry and economy he accumulated a fine
property. From 1862 until the close of the war he served in the Seventeenth.
Alabama infantry, company F, and in the army commanded by General Joseph E.
Johnston. He was never either wounded or captured. He was a prominent Mason, and
an active worker in church matters. He was one of a family of nine sons and
three daughters, and eight of the sons, all that were then living, served in the
Confederate army. Their father, Aaron Hickman, was probably a native of one of
the Carolinas, and died upon a farm in Georgia. Leonard Smith, the mother's
father, was with General Jackson in the war of 1812. He assisted in cutting the
old Three Notch road, which passes through Bullock, Pike, Coffee, and other
counties in Alabama. He was a farmer, and died in Upson county, Ga. P. N.
Hickman was the third of a family of three sons and four daughters, viz.: Samuel
A., a prosperous farmer and miller in Butler county; Elizabeth, widow of Leander
Wood; McDonald, died when young; P. N.; Mary E., wife of Henry L. Huguley, a
well-to-do farmer of Butler county; Virginia, deceased, and Annelier. Hon. P. N.
Hickman was brought up on a farm, received but little education in his youth,
but after reaching-manhood applied himself diligently to study and reading
during his spare moments, and in this way attained far more than the average
amount of knowledge possessed by mankind. At the age of twenty he began life for
himself as clerk in the office of the probate judge at Greenville. In the
meantime he read law with Gamble & Bolling, and in 1879 he was admitted to the
bar by the supreme court. He then practiced law in Covington county until 1882,
when he returned to Greenville and served as county solicitor until 1884, when
he removed to Sumter county, Fla., remaining there until 1886 engaged in
building up a profitable practice, and at the same time planted five acres in
orange trees, which he still owns ; they are now bearing, and the plat is a
handsome piece of property. Since 1886 he has resided at Elba, and is now the
leading lawyer of Coffee county. Since 1888 he has been county solicitor. In
November, 1885, he was married to Mary B. Chapman, who was born in what is now
Crenshaw county. She is a sister of Dr. R. B. Chapman of Troy, whose sketch
appears elsewhere in this volume. She was educated in Crenshaw county, and at
Greenville, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hickman is a
member of the Baptist church, and W. M. of Elba lodge, F. & A. M., No. 170, and
is junior grand deacon of the grand lodge of Alabama. While he is not a
politician nor an aspirant for political honors, yet he works for the success of
his party. He was a delegate to the state convention, in 1880, that nominated
Governor O'Neal. He is a man of good practical ideas, and a man of judgment and
influence throughout his county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 667-668


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