When Arthur S. Hickman was born on 18 February 1842, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Arthur Hickman, was 38 and his mother, Rebecca Walker, was 35. He lived in Nicholas, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Webster, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 11 April 1862, at the age of 20.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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English (Staffordshire): from the Middle English personal names Hikeman, Hicheman, and (in the West Midlands) Hikemon and Hichemon, pet forms of Hike and Hiche with the hypocoristic suffix -man or -mon. See Hick and Hitch . In some instances, however, Hikeman and Hicheman might be occupational names denoting a ‘servant of Hike or Hiche’. This surname has long been established in Ireland, notably in County Clare.
Americanized form of German Hickmann .
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