View source for Lorena Hickok

'''Lorena Alice Hickok''', lesbian lover of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Lorena was born [[Mar 7]], 1893 in Grant County, [[Wisconsin]], the daughter and eldest child of Addison J Hickok (1864-1932) and his wife Anna Adelsa Waite (1870-1906).  Addison and Anna had married April 1891 in Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin.

Her mother died [[Sep 20]], 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]], leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle.  About fifteen months later, on [[Jan 1]], 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota.

She died [[May 1]], 1968, age seventy-five.

==Primary documents==
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hickok&sx=&f6Day=&f6Month=&f6Year=&f7=&gskw=&prox=1&f6=++&db=wibirth1820&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 Wisconsin Births 1820-1907] showing "Alice L Hickok, born Mar 7, 1893 Grant County, Wisconsin but also interestingly Lorene H Hickok, born Mar 9, 1891, Grant County, Wisconsin]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=wibirth1820&so=2&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Ruby&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416 Wisconsin Births 1820-1907] showing "Ruby A Hickok, born Sep 24, 1896, Walworth County, Wisconsin]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hicock&sx=y&f19=&f20=&f21=&f14=Wisconsin&rg_81004011__date=1893&rs_81004011__date=2&f16=&f9=&f10=&_8000C002=&_80008002=&_80018002=&f23=&f22=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1900usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=167&recid=75476393&recoff=3+18+19&fsk=CIAAHbIEeigo&bsk=&pgoff= 1900 Census of Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin] showing "Aaron J Hickock, 39, New York; Ama Adelia Hickock, 38, New York; Alice Lorena Hickock 7, Wisconsin; Ruby A Hickock 3; Myrtle M Hickock 2; Matilda B Wait 66, mother-in-law, New York"

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SD_marr_cert%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=1&recid=205632&recoff=1+2 South Dakota Marriages 1905-1949] showing "Addison Hickok of Aberdeen, Brown County, 44, American, widower to Emma Flashman of Aberdeen, Brown County, 37, Divorced; by J W Taylor, Minster, of Aberdeen Jan 1, 1908" (ancestry incorrectly indexed this marriage as occurring in 1907).

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hicock&sx=&f7=&f9=&f10=&f18=&f20=New+York&rg_81004011__date=1863&rs_81004011__date=2&f23=&f17=&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1910uscenindex&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=1&recid=78128644&recoff=3+16+31+32+33+34 1910 Census of Redfield, Spink County, South Dakota] showing "Adison J Hicock, 47, New York, married" (but no wife listed with him).

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&db=1910USCenIndex%2c&tips=0&gsfn=Ruby&gsln=Hickock&sx=y&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&gss=angs-d&fh=114&recid=91574021&recoff=1+2&fsk=CIAAHswE8-47-gQ&bsk=&pgoff= 1910 Census of Delavan, Walworth County, Wisconsin] showing Ruby and Myrtle Hickok living with W C Waite 58 and his wife Esther 46 and their five children.

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1920usfedcen%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Adison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=89694801&recoff=14+16 1920 Census of Newark, Marshall County, South Dakota] showing "Adison J Hickok, 58, born New York; Fannie, wife, 54, born Iowa"

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SDdeaths%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=121378&recoff=7+9 South Dakota Death Index, 1905-55] Showing "Addison J Hickok, died Oct 7, 1932 in Brown County".

==Secondary Sources==
''The Life of Lorena Hickok, E.R.'s Friend'', by Doris Faber. William Morrow and Company, New York, 1980. ISBN 0688036317

[[Category:South Dakota]]
[[Category:Wisconsin]]