Memorials › George Francis Hickman

George Francis Hickman

27 Mar 1869 – 12 Oct 1958

Birth27 Mar 1869
Death12 Oct 1958
Added byCarl W. McBrayer on 16 Jun 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38432975

Bio

Son of Dr. George Washington Hickman and Lucy Ann Haws. He was the 7th in a family of 13 children. He was baptized in the LDS Church June 2, 1877. His early education was obtained in the Provo Schools. He started teaching school at age 19 in Pond Town, Utah, now called Salem. He met his first wife, Harriett Douglass at a dance in Payson, Utah and two years later, they were married in Salt Lake City, on March 27, 1890. March 30, 1892, they were sealed in the LDS Manti Temple. They made their home in Benjamin, Utah, where George was then teaching. After finishing the school year in Benjamin, they both attended the Brigham Young Academy. George received his A.B. Degree. George was the Principal of Central High School in Payson for four years. On March 20, 1896, George was set apart by the LDS Church to fill a 2 ½ year mission to Germany. He arrived at Liverpool, England on 9 April 1896, and on the 11th of April he and Andrew Thomson, Jr. of Ephraim, Utah proceeded from there to Germany. After his mission, he attended the University of Geneva at Geneva Switzerland for one year. He then traveled extensively throughout Europe before returning home. On his return to his family moved to Woodruff, Utah. George was principal of the school there for two years. They, then, moved to Castle Dale, Emery, Utah where George was principal of the Castle Dale Academy for 14 years. George always thought that he should have been able to live in polygamy, even though it was after the Manifesto, ending polygamy among the LDS Church members. He lived it anyway. There are two known women who he thought of as wives, a Chloe Palmer and Zina Alberta Woolf. When Harriett learned that Zina was pregnant with his child, she divorced George and he was excommunicated. George then spent the next four years at the University of California where he received his Master's Degree. For one and a half years while studying in California for his Ph. D., he was deputy sheriff of Alameda County. He and Zina were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 24, 1915 even though his divorce from Harriett was not finalized until July 31, 1919. In the fall of 1919, he returned to Utah and entered the life insurance field as a general agent for the Intermountain Life Insurance Company, which later became the California Western States Life Insurance Company, for whom he wrote over three million dollars of personal business. In January of 1929 he became associated with the Pacific National Life Assurance Company as a general agent. Harriet died March 1, 1949 and is buried in Castle Dale, Utah. George did attend her funeral. After all, she was his first love and mother of eight of his children. Zina died October 19, 1956 and George, suffering from dementia, was moved to Oakland, California to a care center. His mind was failing but it was reported that his body was strong. He would often run away from the care center jumping hedges to do it. He died at the age of 89. Eighteen years later, on January 14, 1976, George Francis Hickman was re-baptized in Salt Lake City by proxy and reinstated so that his name can now be found on the records of the church. Source: Condensed from a biography of George Francis Hickman by Gwen Wade.

Photos

Family

Parents

Spouse

Siblings

Children

Export GEDCOM

This person only · Entire connected family