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WILLIAM S. HICKS
Vol. 3, p. 1322

President of the Hicks Loan & Investment Company, in the Colcord
Building at Oklahoma City, William S. Hicks is one of the men of high
financial standing in Oklahoma City and over the state in general.
His experience in handling mortgage loans and other securities is
probably as extensive and covers as long a period as can be credited
to any man still engaged in that business in the state. For upwards
of twenty years his business field was in Missouri, and he has been
identified with Oklahoma since the statehood year.

A native of Missouri, Mr. Hicks was born in Adair County, June 24,
1868, a son of George W. and Elizabeth (LAY) Hicks. His father was a
native of Virginia, while the mother was born in Tennessee. They were
married in 1855, sixty years ago, and both are still living and one
of the oldest married couples in Missouri. George W. Hicks was a
farmer all his active career, and during the war between the states
was in the Union army and being taken prisoner spent several months
in the notorious Andersonville prison. His wife's brothers fought on
the other side and were soldiers in the Confederate ranks.

The early associations of William S. Hicks were with the Missouri
farm and with the country schools of that state. He completed his
education in the State Normal School at Kirksville and had taught
three terms of country school before taking up his active business
career. In February, 1889, a few months before reaching his twenty-
first birthday, Mr. Hicks started in the business of handling farm
mortgages, city loans and investment securities with an office at
Kirksville. That city was his home and his business prospered and
brought him into extensive relations all over Northern Missouri and
in other states. In 1907 Mr. Hicks came from Missouri to Oklahoma
City, and here developed the business which is now known as the Hicks
Loan & Investment Company, of which company he is president.

In less than ten years Mr. Hicks has made himself a substantial
figure in the financial circles of the capital city. He is still a
bachelor and a member of the leading social clubs and prominent in
Masonic bodies. His Masonic affiliations are with Kirksville Lodge
No. 105, A. F. & A. M.; Cyrus Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; Oklahoma
Commandery, Knights Templar; and India Temple of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He is a member and president of the Pickwick Club of
Oklahoma City, a member of the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club,
and of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. His church is the
Methodist Episcopal, South. Mr. Hicks resides at 127 West Tenth
Street.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, October 10, 1998.