Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 322.
 
WILLIAM WOLF HICKS, M. D.

     For nearly a score of years Dr. William Wolf Hicks has faithfully
ministered to the physical ills of the people of Lane county and has steadily
risen in public confidence and respect, being regarded as one of the leading
physicians of this locality. Born at Ligonier, Noble county, Indiana, on the
21st of July, 1872, he is a son of William R. and Barbara E. (Wolf) Hicks, the
former a native of Yorkshire, England, while the latter was born in Ohio. The
father was brought to the United States at the age of eight years and secured
his education in the schools of this country. He proved his loyalty to his
adopted country during the Civil war by enlisting in the One Hundred and
Sixty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served four years,
and at the close of the war he located in Indiana, where for several years he
-worked as carpenter, builder and cabinet-maker. He was successful and purchased
a farm, which he developed into a good property, thereon spending his remaining
years. He was a man of fine public spirit and held several public offices. The
mother died in September, 1902, at the age of fifty-nine years, and the father
in March, 1913, when seventy years old.
     William W. Hicks attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, at
Springfield, Ohio, after which he matriculated in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, in Cincinnati, where he pursued his studies three years, completing
his fourth year's work in the State University of California at Los Angeles,
where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He had worked his way
through college and when he came to Oregon, on July 8, 1902, his cash capital
consisted of twenty dollars, of which ten dollars was required for the state
examination. He first located at Lafayette, Yamhill county, where he remained
about four months, going then to Ashland, this state, where he engaged in
practice until 1905, Removing to St. John's, Oregon, he there remained two
years, going thence to Silverton, where he practiced until 1909, when he went to
San Francisco, California, and took a six-months postgraduate course in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. In April, 1909, Doctor Hicks opened an
office in Junction City, where he has remained to the present time, building up
a reputation as a skilled and trustworthy physician, his practice covering a
large territory. He also serves as surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He
has always been a close and constant student of his profession, keeping in touch
with the latest advances in the sciences of medicine and surgery, and the
success which has come to him is well merited. The Doctor is a stockholder in
the Lane County Fruit Growers Association and the Junction City Warehouse
Company, and also owns two farms, of one hundred and eighty-four acres and one
hundred and eighty-six acres respectively, in Lane county, both of which are
well improved and which he leases. He is a strong booster for Junction City and
Lane county and has shown his faith by his works, having induced a number of
families to locate here.
     On January 28, 1917, Doctor Hicks was united in marriage to Miss Katherine
Elizabeth Swank, a native of Indiana, and they have two adopted children, Robert
William and Wilda Elizabeth. Mrs. Hicks had twenty years' experience as a
teacher and takes a deep interest in children. She has been a member of the
school board, which she served as secretary, and is now president of the Health
Association. Doctor Hicks is a stanch republican in his political alignment and
has served as a member of the city council. He is a member of the Christian
church, to the support of which he is a generous contributor, as he is to all
worthy benevolent causes. He maintains professional affiliation with the Central
Willamette Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. While a resident of Indiana he served three years as a
member of the Indiana National Guard, and during the World war was a member of
the Volunteer Medical Corps, in which relation he performed valuable service,
and also lent his aid and influence to the support of all Liberty Loan and Red
Cross drives. In every relation of life he has proven worthy of the high esteem
in which he is held by all who know him and his career here is an honor to his
community.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2012 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.