Tulare County Biographies

DAVID H. HICKMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Born in Missouri. March 6, 1877, the subject of this sketch is a son of Anthony 
G. and Louisa (Rose) Hickman, natives respectively of Kentucky and of Missouri. 
He lived in his native state, acquiring a good common school education, until he 
was about twenty years old, and then, in 1897, came to Tulare county, Cal., 
where he has lived during the past fifteen years, making an enviable record as a 
citizen, as a farmer, and as a man of affairs. The days of his youth were spent 
on a farm and in his new environment he naturally depended on the land as a 
source of livelihood. On coming to the state he at once apprehended the 
wonderful opportunities that it presented. In 1901 he bought forty-one and 
one-half acres, most of which he devoted to hay and alfalfa, reserving a few 
acres for pasturage. He bought a number of cows and began feeding them for their 
product. Later lie made another purchase of eighty acres, of which he devoted 
thirty-five acres to hay, thirty to alfalfa and fifteen to pasture. During the 
last four years he has operated a cheese factory, and he manufactures thirty-six 
pounds of cheese per day from the milk of fifteen cows, keeping about this 
number of cows year to year and selling the increase for veal. His cows produce 
an average of fifty cents a day the year around for each animal, paying for 
themselves in about twelve months. Mr. Hickman is the owner of two of the finest 
mammoth jacks to be found in the county, each of which commands from $10 to $15 
for service. He gives considerable attention to mules and during the past two 
years has sold ten mule teams at from $350 to $450 per team. Keeping seven good 
brood mares and eleven head of young horses he raises several good mule teams 
each year. One of the most notable of the animals owned by Mr. Hickman is an 
Australian shepherd pup which has but three legs, being minus one leg and 
shoulder in front.
In politics a Republican, Mr. Hickman is also a Prohibitionist. He is a member 
of the Woodmen of the World and he and members of his family are communicants of 
the Baptist church. He was married at Orosi to Eunice Dye, who bore him three 
children: Marie, Kathleen and Rita May. Marie is a student in the public school 
at Orosi. Mrs. Hickman died January 6, 1912.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 644-645