History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . ly. My grandfather wasa strong Federalist, serving as legislator and judge. My fatherwas a Federalist and Whig, serving as Representative and Sen-ator in the Rhode Island Legislature. On the formation of theRepublican party, in 1856, its principles appealed to us as worthyof support, and all of our families of the Bicknell name, thenknown to me, joined the new party and
History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . ly. My grandfather wasa strong Federalist, serving as legislator and judge. My fatherwas a Federalist and Whig, serving as Representative and Sen-ator in the Rhode Island Legislature. On the formation of theRepublican party, in 1856, its principles appealed to us as worthyof support, and all of our families of the Bicknell name, thenknown to me, joined the new party and voted for John C. Fre-mont for President. I have been in sympathy with the platformsof the party in large measure and have voted for its candidatesfor the presidency until 1912, when I voted with the ProgressiveParty for Theodore Roosevelt for President, chiefly on the groundof the departure of the old party from its high ideals and itssupport of an unreasonably high and extortionate tariff. I have supported the cause of suffrage for women for mostof my life, and while in the Massachusetts Legislature was chair-man of the House Committee on Womans Suffrage, securingthe largest vote ever given in Massachusetts. O _j35 a. Bickneix Genealogy 491 In common with most Bicknells, I have been a total abstainererom alcoholic drinks and tobacco. In legislation I have favoredlocal option and high license. In municipal government I havefavored non-partisan principles, and in Providence secured theirpractical adoption by the people. I am closing this brief survey of my life on my seventy-ninthbirthday. As I enter my eightieth year, I can say with one of old,my eye is not dimmed nor my natural strength abated. I am,so far as I can ascertain through expert physical examiners, inperfect health of body and mind. I have no bodily defect toimpair health or to weaken physical energies. Physicians tell methat I am a man of enormous vitality, and that, barring accidents,my bodily machinery will eas
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