The Press., 1894-12-06

The following sketch of MT. Hicks life is from the University magazine: Resident of Connecticut, with business interests in New York, few men have bet ter shown by reason of many achieved successes the benefit of university edu- cation than MT. Radcliffe Hicks, president of the Garfield Rubber Company. ! Grandson of Radcliffe Hicks, a well known sea captain; son of Chares R. Hicks, a merchant in Providence, R. l., he was born.in Holland, Conn.,, October 3d, 1943.
 Pursuing his preparatory studies at the Monson Academy and Williston Semina- ry, MT. Hicks entered Brown University in 1860, and was graduated with the de- gree of A. B. in 1864. While in college he was member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and took high rank in his class, being one of the commencement oratos.
 Teaching shool in his native village, and studying law in the office of Judge | Waldo during the years 1864 to 1866, he was in the latter year admitted to the bar ! in Connecticut. During that same year Mir. Hicks began practice with United States Senator Platt of Meriden, and con- tinued this business relation three years, the ten successive years being spent alone.
 Fram 1879 to 1884 MT. Hicks pursued his AAice in the city of Hartford The success which he had attained at the bar was probably never surpassed by man of his years. A large practice caused h %o hn An6 x1yifh yas,f ho portant cases of the New England courts, notably the celebrated Sprague suit in Rhode Island, where fee of $10, ,000 was received, doubtless the largest on record in that state.
 Elected president of the Garfield Rub- Der company in 1882, he has since devoted his energies for the most part to com- mercial life. The company which was organized in that year with @ capital ol $1O,O0O, under his management, has sc increased as to represent now a capital o1 $25O, ,OOO, with surplus of as much more and sales representing $1 1,0OO,0 year
 Tempted as men of marked ability al. ways are to enter political life, he repre- scented the constituency of Holland ir 1866, and was then the youngest member of the Connecticut legislature.
 City attorney of Meriden from 1869 tc l 10 t4, u0 WdS 1IOu 1OSO bO 1SdO dlSO dtbOI ney for the county of New Haven. IT the Connecticut state convention oi 1899, the nomination for lieutenant-gov ernor was clearly within his grasp, but was waived in behalf of a personal friend
 Happily married in 1870 to Mrs. Wilbur F. Parker, MT. Hicks has travelled al over Europe, having made more thar forty voyages across the ocean; is in the prime of life, and is in New York men Der of the Lotus, Colonial and Manhattan athletic clubs.
 Holland has three legislators elect Senator Fuller, who has 8 name honoreG in local and in state politics, his father and only living brother having served ir both branches of the legislature; William Sumner, Esq.,, an honored son of the town, though most of his business activi. ty has been spent in other sections, not however, to the exclusion of care for his town, shown in many forms of lib ; eral gifts, and care for the ancestral man sion now his home. and the birthplace O brothers who have won honorable prom
 thence in other places; and the subject o the above sketch, whom the town alway : delights to honor, and who has honore, A it by consenting to serve again as its rep
 resentative in Hartford. A correspond ant Uritas us.