"An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco:
W. H. Lever, 1901.  p. 309.
 
ALEXANDER HICKMAN

     speaks well for the opportunities and advantages to be found in Whitman
county that so many of those who are well-to-do or wealthy came here without
money or means of any kind, and found within the Palouse country the
opportunity they had failed to discover elsewhere. The man whose name appears as
the caption of this article is an example of this. He was born in Illinois on
July 17, 1834, and grew to manhood there, receiving a good common-school
education. For a number of years after leaving school he was engaged in farming,
but the conditions seem to have been against him, for when he came to this
county, in 1879, he was not in possession of a large supply of funds, and for
some time after his arrival worked for wages in the vicinity of Almota. He
invested his savings in land and in due time worked his way to a place among the
comfortable and well-to-do farmers and stock-raisers of the vicinity. He is now
the owner of three hundred and sixty acres of fine land, highly improved and
developed to its fullest by skillful and judicious husbandry. He resides in an
elegant home; his premises are supplied with a fine barn and outbuildings,
machinery and equipments, and in fact everything which has a tendency to make
rural life attractive and to increase its charm.
     The marriage of our subject was solemnized in this county in July, 1892,
the lady being Mary E. Crawford, a native of Ohio. They have three children:
Floyd C., Clair H. and Richard D.
 

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in June 2009 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.