Bicknell, Bennet
state senator, congressman, was born in Mansfield, Conn. He served in the assembly of the state in 1812; was a state senator from 1815 to 1818; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1863, in Morrisville, Madison county.
BICKNELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the second judicial circuit of the state of Indiana in 1852, holding this position by successive re-elections for twenty-four years. From 1861 to 1870 he was professor of law at the university of Indiana. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.