John F. Hickman

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1821-04-08

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1892

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"John F. Hickman" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010363, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Nelson County, Kentucky, physician. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Hickman and Mary M. Caldwell. Married to Sallie Ann Currey Hickman in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on October 1, 1851. Father of John William Hickman. Married to Emily Wilson Hickman in Nelson County on February 14, 1860. Father of Edward Hickman. Studied medicine under his brother, Dr. William Hickman. Physician in Hart County, Kentucky, from 1846 to 1847. Physician and druggist in Shelby County from 1847 to 1858. Engaged Thomas Saunders as a medical student in Shelby County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Physician in Nelson County beginning in 1858. Owned ten enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Member of the International Order of Oddfellows. Member of the Masonic Brotherhood. Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 364A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 4 of microfilm.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, District 2, pp. 6-7.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 127B, p. 2 of microfilm.
Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Film #001929414, Nelson County, February 14, 1860, p. 199, p. 42 of microfilm.
Find A Grave, "Dr. John F. Hickman (1821-1892)," Memorial 126088255, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126088255 (accessed April 14, 2020).
John Carroll Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson & Co., 1876), 374-75.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 578.

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