U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hickman, Elias (1797-1893) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Harrison County, West Virginia, From the Early Days of Northwestern Virginia to the Present. by Henry Haymond Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1910 Page 392 Elias Hickman, who was born in Clarksburg in 1797, says the first coal he saw used as fuel was in a grate in the Old Randolph Academy building when he attended school. The teacher was George Towers, an Englishman, who wore knee breeches, and used cow hides on his pupils without the slightest hesitation, and well laid on at that. He remembers seeing the teacher tie two boys together whom he caught fighting, and compelled them to fight it out. Joseph Sommerville, an Irishman, and Adam Hickman were the first merchants he can remember and John McCullough the first Post Master, who kept his office in a building that stood on the South Side of Main Street below Second. Whiskey was sold at $8.00 per barrel. Mr. Hickman was a school teacher in West Virginia and Ohio, and has taught seventy-two schools. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths within the District of Pierce Sidebottom, Assessor for the County of Harrson in the year ending 31st December, 1893. (Line No. 49) FULL-NAME: Hickman, Elias BIRTH-PLACE: Harrison Co. AGE-AT-DEATH: 96y-11m-21d DEATH-DATE: Dec 28, 1893 DEATH-PLACE: West Milford MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Teacher PARENTS: Adam & Mercy Hickman CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Old Age INFORMANT: J. W. Hickman, son ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Harrison County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/harrison/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------