History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 203, Harrison Co. HARRY HICKS is a prosperous and enterprising young farmer of Harrison County, and is giving a capable management to his place of large acreage and complete equipment six miles south of Cynthiana. The house in which he lives today is close to his birthplace, where he was born May 5, 1884, a son of James J. and Susan (Patton) Hicks. His parents were also born in Harrison County, his father in 1850 and his mother in January, 1852. They were reared and educated here, and after their marriage settled on the old homestead, where the mother is still living. The father died in 1891, at the age of forty-one. There were nine children: Arthur, of Cynthiana; Miss Ida; Edwin L., of Cynthiana; Calvin, whose home is in California; Anna deceased; Preston, a Harrison County farmer; Harry; Bessie, who lives with her brother Harry; and Florence, wife of Augustus Price of Lexington. Harry Hicks while growing up on the old farm attended the common schools, and since school days his work has been entirely identified with the Hicks farm of 296 acres. He and his sister Ida also own another farm of sixty-seven acres. Mr. Hicks is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Mount Pleasant and is a democrat. Hicks Patton = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/hicks.h.txt