Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Wicks, J. D. January 29, 1849 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 December 12, 2008, 8:46 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Wicks, J.D., German Flats, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 29, 1849, and learned his profession of electro-metallurgist in New York city. He has been in Ilion five years and does all the electro-plating for the Typewriter company. He is an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Royal Arcanum and Knights of Pythias. In 1873 Mr. Wicks married Ida A. Crissey and they have one son, Charles D. Wicks. J. Leander Wicks, father of J.D., is a sea captain, and the family have all been seafaring men for generations Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/wicks732gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb