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FORMER ATTORNEY GENERALEMMETT R. KICKS KILLED INAN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTThe community was shocked Mtmday evening of this week when the news spread abroad that Fm nert R Hicks had been run over by an automobile at about 5 30 o'clock The accident occurred on Algoma boulevard, a short distance from New ^ork avenue, wlieit Mr Hicks was crossing the street, and before he could be lifted up he wa* 'ran over a second tune b\ th*1 same automobile which had been ihrown into reverse during the excitementMr Hicks wa immediately rushed to Mercs hospital m Dr D H Bath s automobile w here it \\ as found tint his skull h'ld been fnciuicu, nib jaw uiukui hi issu- p *va** several ribs broken and bad sits tamed other mjurie He pa^d awav ni eternal •deep tlwt night at about one o clock 1 he funeral vs ill be held this Frid-n afternoon at two o'clock from the Algoma street M E churui Rev Allen Adams officiating assisted b\ Rev James Churm a former pastor but now of Port Edvsard*tered the University of \\ isconsin in 1873, from which he graduated in 1876 While he was teaching in Waupun Mr Hicks took up the stud) of law m the office of*hit Hooker, and later re-entered the University of Wisconsin law department from which he gradu ated m 1880 In the same year Mr Hicks was united m the bonds of holy matrimony to Mi^s Cynthia Reed of Omro and the removed to Oshkosh w'bere Mr Hicks began the practice of law affiliating hi 11 ^elf with M C Phillips and ]ohn C Kleist and where he has residedLvcr sinceTVfA 1nH rpfni Trn *ilEmmett R Hicks na known as one of the most prom merit men 111 this part of the *tate He was born at Waukau Wis, March 7 1854 and canye with his parents lo Oniro shortly afterwards, where he at tended the common schools and graduated from the high school in 1870 He spent nearly all oF the seventy one years of his life in Winnebago countv After teach mg school for three years lie enhonors conferred ujxm him but the tnobt distinguished call came m 1898 when he was elected Attornev General of the state of \\ isconsin w hjch position he held for four years Mr Hicks was a gentleman of high ideal* and cloquot oratorical abil it} and his services were greath in demand on all public occasions He 1*5 survived hv his widow and one son, Milliam Hicks of Wheaton III two sons Bert and Luther hav mg preceded their father in deatn recently He is also survived bv three brothers Clarence | Hick* and Albert K Hicks of New «York Citv and Ernest L Hicks of Phoenix Arizona,1 he Odihosh Republican jom: fhrs entire community m extending its heartfelt sympathy to the he rcaved family hi the hour of their great sorrow
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Oshkosh Republican
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1925
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