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The only surviving son became a partner with his father in 1866. Charles Hickox. Whether the conversion of wheat into flour can more properly be classed among manufactures or trade and commerce is a question for casuists to determine.
Hickox turned his attention to milling, and commenced operations at a mill in Akron, which he soon made known to the commercial world by the excellence and reliability of its brand. To this was, in time, added the water mill, on the canal, in Cleveland, near the weigh lock, which he held for five years and then sold.
Hickox came to Cleveland in 1837, from the state of New York, making his debut in the Forest City in the year of its greatest depression. For the first two years he engaged as clerk, and served his employers faithfully. Then, gaining confidence, and seeing an opening he struck out boldly for himself, setting up, as was usual in those days, in the commission and produce business.
Thence he clanked his spurs into Mr. Quilty's sanctum. That gentleman, nodding somnolently above a blackened clay pipe, rolled an appraising eye at him. "Fwhere in Hiven's name is the maskyrade at?" he queried sourly. "An' do yez riprisint Wild Bill Hickox rest his sowl or th' 'Pache Kid th' divil burn him!"
Councilmen 1st Ward David Clark Doan, Henry Everett, John Gill. 2d Ward John Erwin, Charles Hickox, Henry B. Payne. 3d Ward Alexander Seymour, Alexander S. Cramer, Orville Gurley. Mayor Lorenzo A. Kelsey. President of the Council Flavel W. Bingham. Aldermen Flavel W. Bingham, William Case, Alexander Seymour.
Hickox in the milling business, already referred to in this work, and in which he still continues. Mr. Coe has won his present prominent position among the business men of Cleveland by shrewd foresight and close attention to business.
In that place they remained but a year, at the end of which time they removed to Cleveland. Levi Sargent, the father of the subject of this sketch, was by trade a blacksmith, and was at one time a partner in that business with Abraham Hickox, then, and long after, familiarly known to every one in the neighborhood as "Uncle Abram."
Hickox has taken deep interest in the railroad affairs of the city, and has been for some time a director of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad Company. He is still as active and energetic as ever, well preserved in body and mind, and making his positive influence felt in all departments of business in which he becomes interested.
There can be no question, however, that Charles Hickox takes his place, by right, among the merchants and commercial men of Cleveland, whether the grinding of wheat be a manufacture or not, for it is not alone by the milling business that Mr. Hickox has identified himself with the commerce of the city.
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