Charles Wells Wicks (December 16, 1862 – August 25, 1931) was an American businessman and politician from
New York
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Life
Born in
Paris Hill,
Oneida County, New York
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, he was the son of Charles Chidsey Wicks (1811–1884) and Nancy Bicknell (Dickinson) Wicks (1829–1904). He attended the local Paris Hill school and
Sauquoit Academy. Then he became a wholesale grocer's clerk, and later an employee of Roberts, Butler & Co., clothes manufacturers in
Utica. Upon the death of Roberts, Wicks became a partner in the company. On May 5, 1892, he married Lucie Canterbury Glenn, and they had two sons. He sold his part in 1904, and entered the clothes retail business instead. In 1909, he sold out, and retired from active business. He became a stockholder and director of several companies, and engaged in farming.
Wicks was a member of the
New York State Senate
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Partisan com ...
(36th D.) from 1915 to 1918, sitting in the
138th,
139th,
140th and
141st New York State Legislature
The 141st New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 13, 1918, during the fourth year of Charles S. Whitman's governorship, in Albany.
Background
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Wicks moved to
Kennebunkport, Maine
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in 1928, where he died three years later.
["Charles Wicks Dies; Once State Senator", ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (August 25, 1931), p. 1.]
References
Sources
''New York Red Book''(1917; pg. 131)
transcribed from ''History of Oneida County, New York'' by Henry J. Cookinham (1912)
1862 births
1931 deaths
People from Paris, New York
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
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