Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 652-654 [McCracken]

     ROBERT A. HICKS, who is numbered among the leading medical
practitioners of Paducah, Kentucky, was born in Treton, Tennessee,
on the 12th of July, 1869, being a son of Dr. Robert A. and Mary E.
(Herbert) Hicks.  The father was a native of Jackson, Madison
county, Tennessee, where his father was one of the early pioneers,
removing there from Virginia, where the ancestors of the family had
settled during the early history of the United States.  Robert A.
Hicks, Sr., was the second in order of birth in a family of nine
sons, all of whom were Confederate soldiers, and he was reared and
received his literary education in Jackson, Tennessee.  Choosing the
practice of medicine as his life work, he graduated from the Medical
College of Macon, Georgia, also the Eclectic Medical College of
Cincinnati and the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St.
Louis.  Being thus well equipped to enter the profession of his
choice, he located at Trenton, Tennessee, where for more than thirty
years his name was a household word in many of the best homes of the
community.  In 1892, when fifty-seven years of age, his life labors
were ended in death, but his wife survived until 1901, when she
joined him in the home beyond, passing away at the age of sixty
years and in the faith of the Baptist church, of which she was long
a worthy and consistent member.  Dr. Hicks gave his political
support to the Democratic party.  In their family were three
children: Mamie, the wife of O. B. C. Freeman, an attorney of
Trenton, Tennessee; Robert A.; and Thomas Cecil, a physician of
Memphis, Tennessee.
     Robert A. Hicks, Jr., spent the period of his boyhood and youth
in Trenton, Tennessee, the place of his nativity, and his literary
education was received in the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville,
from which institution he was graduated in 1888, with the degree of
A. M.  Also choosing the healing art as his occupation through life,
he became a student in the medical department of the University of
Tennessee, at Nashville, from which he was graduated in March, 1890,
and for two years thereafter was engaged in practice with his
father.  In 1892 he graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College and
Hospital of Chicago, the following year being spent as a physician
in the Hahnemann Hospital, and for the following three years he was
a practitioner at Rome, Georgia.  Since 1896 Dr. Hicks has been a
member of the profession at Paducah, where his career as a physician
and surgeon has been attended with marked success.  His promptness,
his sympathetic nature and his generosity are his well known
characteristics, and those who know him esteem him highly.  While a
resident of Rome Dr. Hicks served as president of the Tri-State
Homeopathic Medical Society and was a member of the state board of
medical examiners of Georgia.  He now holds membership relations
with the Southern Homeopathic Medical Society and the Kentucky State
Homeopathic Society, of which he is vice president.
  In 1892 Dr. Hicks was united in marriage with Margaret Thomas, of
Knoxville, Tennessee, and they have had five children, three of whom
are living, namely: Robert N., Walton N., and Margaret Elizabeth. 
Both he and his wife are members of the Episcopal church, in which
he has served as a member of the vestry for three years.

Hicks Herbert Freeman Thomas
=
Madison-TN VA

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