OBIT: Frank Wilson HICKS, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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FRANK WILSON HICKS

  Belated news was received here this week of the death of Frank Wilson Hicks 
who was born in Meyersdale, May 15, 1872, and who passed away in Pittsburgh, 
July 21, 1944, aged 72 years, 2 months and 6 days.
  He was the son of the late Wilson C. and Annie Miller Hicks, former well known 
residents of Meyersdale.
  Wilson C. Hicks was appointed postmaster of Meyersdale upon the death of the 
first postmaster of Meyers Mills, Peter Meyers, in 1870.  The name of the 
postoffice still was Meyers Mills when Mr. Hicks took it over and was not 
changed until after the incorporation of the town as a borough in 1874, when the 
name was changed to Meyersdale.  Wilson C. Hicks, therefore, was the first 
postmaster of Meyersdale and served under Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and 
Arthur, but died before the completion of his last term.
  His son, Frank Hicks, grew up in Meyersdale, and when still in his "teens" 
became a bookkeeper in the Philson Bank, now the Citizens National Bank.
  When still quite a young man, Frank Hicks removed to Connellsville where he 
was successfully engaged in the lumber business for many years.  Mr. Hicks was 
not only a good businessman, but had an even-tempered and kindly disposition 
which made for him many friends.  He was for many years an active member of the 
Connellsville Baptist Church.
  After Connellsville was so hard hit by the great business depression of the 
1930's, which left many lines of business prostrate, Mr. Hicks moved to 
Pittsburgh, where he and his sons operated two automobile service stations until 
his death.  He was in failing health during the last two years of his life.
  He left to mourn his loss a loving wife, Mrs. Ida Hicks, now residing at Mill 
Run, Pa.; a son, Francis Wilson Hicks, of Pittsburgh, and two sisters, Mrs. 
Alice Groves and Mrs. Grace Phillips, both residing in Pittsburgh.

Meyersdale Republican, August 24, 1944