Faulk-Bon Homme County, SD Biographies.....Bickell, Thomas Eugene 1881 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    THOMAS EUGENE BICKELL was born at Myrtle, Bon Homme county, South Dakota,

December 28th, 1881, and resided with his parents on a farm until 1891 when they

removed to Tyndall, South Dakota, where the subject of our sketch received his

education in the public and high schools of that city. When sixteen years of age

he entered, the Tyndall Register as an apprentice, and after serving two years

on that paper, accepted a position with The Bon Homme County News, another paper

published at Tyndall. In 1891 he came to Faulkton and accepted a position with

H. S. Koon, editor of the Faulkton Advocate, and a year later when this paper

was, sold to Fremont Young, was employed as foreman until June, 1908, when he

associated, himself with W. H. Rice in the publication of The Faulkton Record,

under the firm name of Bickell & Rice.



    Mr. Bickell is of English parentage, his father G. I. Bickell, having been

born at Brandtford, Canada, and his, mother at Banbury, England, the latter

coming with her parents to the United States when only two years of age.



    On September 15th, 1909, he was united in marriage to Miss Rhea D. Griffee,

of Faulkton.



    Socially, Mr. Bickell is a member of the Masonic order, The Benevolent and

Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Brotherhood of America. Politically he

has always been identified with the republican party







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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

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