Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
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Son of Samuel B. and Ann Hardy Trickey, was born and reared in Winchester. His father was a Yankee and was born at Brookfield, New Hampshire, May 7, 1832. His mother was born in Yorkshire, England, October 25, 1835. They are the parents of two children - Hardy D., and Mary B., who, for a number of years, was a teacher in the Winchester schools. Hardy D. Trickey graduated from the Winchester high school, and for a number of years taught school in the county.
In 1892 he was a student at the University of Illinois. By profession he is a lawyer and received his legal training in the office of Judge James A. Warren, at Winchester, and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the fall of 1900 he was admitted to the bar of Illinois and entered practice in partnership with Judge Warren. He received the nomination on the anti-license ticket for city attorney of Winchester in the spring of 1903, there being no opposition candidate.