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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 119-120


CLINTON G. HICKEY, M. D.

	Dr. Clinton G. Hickey, a man of marked efficiency in the medical 
profession, who is vice president and acting president of the state 
board of health of Colorado and an active and successful practitioner 
in Denver, was born in Nicholville, St. Lawrence county, New York, 
October 16, 1858, and is of Irish, English and Dutch descent on the 
paternal side. His paternal grandfather, William Hickey, was the 
founder of the family in the new world, crossing the Atlantic to Canada 
in the early part of the nineteenth century. George Hickey, father of 
Dr. Hickey, was born at Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, January 9, 1833, and 
spent his last days in Nicholville, New York, where he passed away in 
1882, at the age of forty-nine years. He was a harness maker and 
saddler by trade and successfully conducted business along that line at 
Nicholville during the greater part of his life. He was a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a devout Christian man 
who, strongly opposed to the liquor traffic, was largely instrumental 
in curbing the evils which grow out of the sale and use of intoxicants. 
He also stood for those things which are a matter of civic virtue and 
civic pride and was a most valued and respected citizen of Nicholville 
as well as one of its enterprising and successful business men. He 
married Esther Lowry, a native of Waddington, St. Lawrence county, New 
York, and a representative of one of the old families of the Empire 
state, of lowland Scotch descent on the paternal side, while on the 
maternal side, through the Walbridge family, she was of English 
lineage. The Lowry family has been represented on American soil since 
colonial days. Mrs. Hickey died in the year 1863, at the age of thirty-
three, and is survived by three of her four children, one son, 
Clarence, having died in childhood. The others are Emma J., Clinton G. 
and Mina A. Hickey.

	At the usual age Dr. Hickey became a pupil in the public schools 
of Nicholville, New York, and afterward attended the State Normal 
School at Potsdam, New York, while subsequently he entered the Albany 
(N. Y.) Medical College, from which he was graduated with the M. D. 
degree in 1884. He then entered upon the practice of his profession at 
Gaylordsville, in the Housatonic valley of Connecticut, where he 
remained for three and a half years, after which he returned to the 
Empire state, opening an office at Burden and becoming resident 
physician and surgeon for the Burden Ore & Iron Company. He continued 
to act in that capacity for four years and then resigned his position, 
after which he pursued a post-graduate course at the New York 
Polyclinic. Thus splendidly equipped by broad study and wide experience 
for professional activity, he came to the west, arriving in Denver in 
November, 1891. Here he entered upon the general practice of medicine, 
in which he has since continued, and his marked ability has won for him 
a liberal patronage. He belongs to the medical society of the city and 
county of Denver, to the Colorado State Medical Society, the American 
Medical Association, the Denver Clinical and Pathological Society and 
to the hospital staff of the Hospital of the City and County of Denver. 
He is also vice president and acting president of the Colorado state 
board of health, now serving his fourth year in that connection, in 
which he has done very important work, particularly in the 
dissemination of that knowledge which prevents the outbreak and spread 
of disease through an understanding of the laws of health. For fourteen 
years he was connected with the Denver Medical College on the 
dispensary staff and was also one of the lecturers of the school.

	On the 21st of January, 1885. Dr. Hickey was united in marriage 
in Nicholville, New York. to Miss Jennie Simonds, a native of that 
place and a daughter of Titus S. and Mary (Chandler) Simonds, both now 
deceased. The Chandlers were early settlers of Massachusetts, arriving 
in the new world from England soon after the arrival of the Mayflower 
at Plymouth. Dr. and Mrs. Hickey have become the parents of three 
daughters and a son, but two of the daughters died between the ages of 
four and six years. The elder, Ethelwyn, was in her sixth year at the 
time of her death. Muriel died at the age of four years and four months 
and there were only four days between their deaths. The son, Dr. Harold 
Lowry Hickey, born in Denver, November 15, 1892, was graduated in June, 
1913, from the University of Denver and in June, 1917, from the 
Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago. He has both the 
degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Denver. 
As assistant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant he is now serving in 
the Reserve Naval Force of the United States. Dorothy, born February 
17, 1895, is the wife of Robert E. Sherer, representative of an old 
Chicago family. They were married June 27, 1917. She was graduated from 
the University of Denver with the Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Sherer 
is a nephew of Dean Howell of the University of Denver, where he 
completed his education, winning the A. B. degree, and it was while 
they were students in that institution that Mr. and Mrs. Sherer became 
acquainted. They now reside at Alabaster, Michigan.

	The career of Dr. Hickey is an interesting one, as it shows the 
result of strong purpose and creditable endeavor. At the age of 
eighteen he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for 
two years in the district schools and for a year was a teacher in one 
of the upper grades in the schools of Nicholville. As a result of his 
teaching he was able to repay his father for money advanced to him for 
his medical education. He has remained throughout the entire period of 
his professional career an earnest and discriminating student of 
everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery 
which we call life. His reading has been comprehensive and he keeps in 
touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries, but 
important as is his life work, he has never concentrated his efforts 
and attention upon medical practice to the exclusion of all other 
interests. He is an active and valued member of the Grant Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal church and for years has been chairman of its 
official board and chairman of the finance committee for the past 
twenty-three years. He is perhaps most largely known in connection with 
his social welfare work. He served for two years on the City Federation 
of Social Welfare and as president of the Adult Blind Home Association. 
He is ever cooperating heartily with organized movements for the uplift 
of the individual and the advancement of community interests and is 
continually studying the grave political, economic and sociological 
problems which affect the welfare, happiness and progress of the race. 
His studies result in practical efforts for the amelioration of the 
hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and he is numbered among 
those men who are throwing around them much of life's sunshine.