Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hicks, Speakman
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   SPEAKMAN HICKS retired, P.O. Quakertown, was born in 
1809.  William Hicks, the grandfather of our subject, was a 
native of this county.  He had five sons and two daughters.  
George Hicks, son of William, was married to Anna, daughter 
of John and Anna Penrose.  Born to this couple were eleven 
children, our subject being the sixth.  He was married in 
1833 to Miss Hattie B. Shryock, of Franklin county, Pa., 
daughter of John and Martha.  They have had seven children, 
of whom only two are living:  Annie and John.   Mrs. Hicks 
died in 1852, and Mr. Hicks was married in 1869 to Alice L., 
daughter of William L. Strawn of this county.  No children 
were born to this marriage.  The second wife died in 1884.  
Mr. Hicks followed the business of a carriage builder till 
1869, when he came to this township and purchased a farm.  
After his second wife's death, 1884, he spent the winter in 
Philadelphia and the following spring came to his present 
home.