History of Crab Orchard, (Lincoln County) Kentucky United States of America

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William Howard Hickman, educator, was born in Crab Orchard Spring, Ky., Oct. 15, 1844; son of John and Sarah (Pitts) Hickman; grandson of Mike Hickman, an officer in the war of 1812, stationed at Norfolk, Va., and of Elijah and Elizabeth (Green) Pitts, of Abingdon, Va., and great grandson of Peter Hickman, a Revolutionary soldier who immigrated from Germany to America about the middle of the eighteenth century and entered a large tract of land in Sullivan county, Tenn., on the Virginia line near Blountville. His parents removed to Lincoln county, Ky., where they both died when William Howard was very young. He was taken by an older brother to Crawfordville, Ind., where he was brought up. He was a soldier in the 10th and 39th Indiana volunteers, 1861-64, and served in the Army of the Cumberland and with Kilpatrick in the march to the sea. He was captured and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., when the war closed. He then studied medicine, but decided to become a Methodist minister and entered Indiana Asbury university, Greencastle, where he paid his way through the course by teaching, and was graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. He joined the Northwest Indiana conference of the M.E. church in 1873, studied at the Garrett Biblical institute and at the School of Oratory, Boston, Mass., and filled many of the leading pulpits of his conference, 1873-86. He was presiding elder of the Crawfordville district, 1886-89; president of Clark university, Atlanta, Ga., 1889-93; pastor of the First M.E. church, Terre Haute, Ind., 1893-96, when he was elected chancellor of De Pauw university to succeed Bishop Thomas Bowman, retired. He was elected a member of the board of managers of the Southern Education society; was a delegate to the general conference in 1888, alternate in 1892 and again a member in 1896. He was married in 1875 to Eliza, the only daughter of Professor Hougham, of Perdue university. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from De Pauw university in 1889.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Crab Orchard, (Lincoln County) Kentucky

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