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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

   [727-728]

                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          THOMAS N. BICKET, son of SAMUEL and MARY BICKET, was born in
       Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1848. His parents died in
       that county.  THOMAS N. BICKET and JOSEPHINE HITE were married
       February 28, 1866.  She was born in 1849 in the same county. He
       followed farming in Pennsylvania until 1876, then came to Iowa, and
       settled in Cedar county, where lived a short time in Howard county,
       Iowa. In 1866 he removed to Jasper county, where he remained about
       five years. He then removed to Clay county, and remained six years,
       after which he returned to Jasper county, and two years later came
       to Cass county. After living here about two years, he bought eighty
       acres of land in section 24 of Bear Grove township, which is now his
       residence. He also owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Clay
       county.  MR. HAZLETT was [*]he farmed upon rented land three years.
       He then removed to Cass county, and rented a farm in Atlantic
       township, where he lived four years on the same place, after which
       he purchased the farm on which he now lives, on section 11, Bear
       Grove township. It contains eighty acres. Mr. and Mrs. BICKET have
       eight children — JENNIE, MARY, TILLIE, ROBERT, WILLIAM, JAMES,
       JESSIE and AMY.

       Transcriber's Note: The sentance containing my mark [*] appears here
       exactly as it appears in the book.
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