Wickes, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 31, 1814, in Jamaica, N. Y.
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Marietta, Ohio; and the author of Exposition of the Apocalypse; The Son of Man; The Household; and Economy of the Ages. He died Nov. 10, 1870, in Orange, N. J.
WICKHAM, CHARLES PRESTON, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1836, in Norwalk, Ohio.
He enlisted as a private in company D, fifty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteers.
While a major he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel by brevet, by the president, for gallant and meritorious services in the Carolinas. He resumed the practice of law in Norwalk; was elected prosecuting attorney in 1866 and re-elected in 1868. He was elected judge of the court of common pleas of the fourth judicial district in 1880, and re-elected in 1885 as a republican. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.