BIO:  J. William Hickman, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 163

J. WILLIAM HICKMAN, M. D., is the eldest son of William C. and Victorine E. (Gibbons) Hickman.  
His father was a native of Chester County and his mother of Fayette County, Penn.  They are of 
English descent, and reared two sons and four daughters.  The Doctor was born in Chester 
County, September 23, 1836, and passed the first sixteen years of his life on the farm and in 
the public schools.  Later he spent two years in the State Normal School, at Westchester, and 
then entered the Washington and Jefferson College, where he began the study of medicine.  In 
1873 the family moved to Michigan, where the father died in the fall of the same year, aged 
fifty-eight.  The remainder of the family resided there two years, our subject teaching in the 
public schools.  In 1876 he entered the office of Dr. G. A. Dougherty, at Washington, Penn., 
where he pursued his medical studies, attending one year’s lectures at Baltimore, and then 
entering Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1879.  Shortly 
afterward he came to Delta, where he enjoys a remunerative practice, in addition to which he 
conducts a drug store.  He was married to Miss Hannah J. Hickman, at York, October 3, 1879, and 
has one child – Carrie R.  He is a member of the borough council, a Master Mason, and a member 
of the York County Medical Society, and of the Slateville Presbyterian Church.  The Hickman 
family own and occupy the same land in Chester County which was taken up by their ancestors on 
their arrival in America.