Josiah Edwin Hickman
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Josiah Edwin Hickman
| VKBush (View posts) | Posted: 13 Feb 2000 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: HICKMAN, ROGERS
Josiah Edwin Hickman
by Edwin Dee Hickman (son)
JOSIAH EDWIN Hickman was born on the 13th August 1862 at Salem, Utah, then called "Pond Town." My father's nickname was "Bub" by all who knew him until he was a man. Then he was known to all friends and relatives as J.E.
At the age of nineteen, he went to Brigham Young Academy at Provo. While attending this school, he bet the man who shaped his future in education [Karl G. Maeser]. After graduation from this school in Provo in two years then was sent to Filmore to take charge of Millard Stake Academy. The year before he started teaching he met and married Martha Ellen ROGERS two years later. Martha Ellen ROGERS was born at Provo, Utah on 2 April 1866, where she lived until her death. her funeral was to have been in College Hall at B.Y.A. but had to be transferred to the Utah Stake Tabernacle which was filled with friends. Apostle Mathias Cowley was the main speaker. Attorney W. E. Ridaulch whistled two of her favorite tunes. He was wonderful.
Josiah wen to Ann Arbor, Michigan to school in 1891. he graduated with Honors in 1893, doing four years in two years. In an oratorical contest he received the highest honors. His subject was "The Banishment of the Mormon People." It was said by the papers the next day, of 7,000 present, there was not a dry eye.
Returning from Michigan, he taught school at BYC, Logan, Utah. From there he went to Preston, Idaho to start Oneida Stake Academy. [In] 1899 he was called on a mission, he moved his family to Benjamin, Utah to live at his mother's home. He got as far as Salt Lake City and the Church sent him to school instead of a mission just then. On his return he went to Provo and taught at the BYA where he built up a very fine record as a teacher and orator spending two to three days each week at the Stake Academy lecturing.
In 1901, he went to Beaver, Utah to organize the Murdock Academy. He endeared himself to all southern Utah as a teacher and a lecturer. He made that school outstanding in the state. He also made visits by horse and buggy all over as a teacher, giving to the people spiritual food, for no one would miss one of his lectures. People would travel miles to hear him. He went as far as southern Nevada, into the Moapa and Virgin Valleys to get students to attend the Academy, for his aim was education and to give those like him who had not the chance in the beginning education.
In 1911, he left for New York where he studied for his PhD and returned to Utah in 1912 and taught at Logan City, Utah and BYC and also at USAC.
He died October 5, 1937 and was buried by the side of his first wife and his son LaVon who died in France of Pneumonia in the service of World War I.
posted by Vivian Karen (Hickman) Bush, great grand-daughter of Josiah E. Hickman
by Edwin Dee Hickman (son)
JOSIAH EDWIN Hickman was born on the 13th August 1862 at Salem, Utah, then called "Pond Town." My father's nickname was "Bub" by all who knew him until he was a man. Then he was known to all friends and relatives as J.E.
At the age of nineteen, he went to Brigham Young Academy at Provo. While attending this school, he bet the man who shaped his future in education [Karl G. Maeser]. After graduation from this school in Provo in two years then was sent to Filmore to take charge of Millard Stake Academy. The year before he started teaching he met and married Martha Ellen ROGERS two years later. Martha Ellen ROGERS was born at Provo, Utah on 2 April 1866, where she lived until her death. her funeral was to have been in College Hall at B.Y.A. but had to be transferred to the Utah Stake Tabernacle which was filled with friends. Apostle Mathias Cowley was the main speaker. Attorney W. E. Ridaulch whistled two of her favorite tunes. He was wonderful.
Josiah wen to Ann Arbor, Michigan to school in 1891. he graduated with Honors in 1893, doing four years in two years. In an oratorical contest he received the highest honors. His subject was "The Banishment of the Mormon People." It was said by the papers the next day, of 7,000 present, there was not a dry eye.
Returning from Michigan, he taught school at BYC, Logan, Utah. From there he went to Preston, Idaho to start Oneida Stake Academy. [In] 1899 he was called on a mission, he moved his family to Benjamin, Utah to live at his mother's home. He got as far as Salt Lake City and the Church sent him to school instead of a mission just then. On his return he went to Provo and taught at the BYA where he built up a very fine record as a teacher and orator spending two to three days each week at the Stake Academy lecturing.
In 1901, he went to Beaver, Utah to organize the Murdock Academy. He endeared himself to all southern Utah as a teacher and a lecturer. He made that school outstanding in the state. He also made visits by horse and buggy all over as a teacher, giving to the people spiritual food, for no one would miss one of his lectures. People would travel miles to hear him. He went as far as southern Nevada, into the Moapa and Virgin Valleys to get students to attend the Academy, for his aim was education and to give those like him who had not the chance in the beginning education.
In 1911, he left for New York where he studied for his PhD and returned to Utah in 1912 and taught at Logan City, Utah and BYC and also at USAC.
He died October 5, 1937 and was buried by the side of his first wife and his son LaVon who died in France of Pneumonia in the service of World War I.
posted by Vivian Karen (Hickman) Bush, great grand-daughter of Josiah E. Hickman