Bicknell, Simeon Smith

Bicknell, Simeon Smith a Congregational minister, was born at Enfield, N. H., Nov. 6, 1794. He obtained his preliminary education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1823. During the period from 1827 to 1832 he was teaching in Salem, Mass., and in Jericho, Vt.; and until 1838 at Malone, N.Y. He studied theology with Rev. Ashbel Parmelee, D.D., of Malone. He was ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Gouverneur, N. Y., in 1838, remaining until 1841. The following years, until 1845, he was acting-pastor at Jericho, Vt.; and in 1846 removed to Wisconsin, becoming acting pastor until 1851 at Milton. He held the same relation in 1852 to the Church at Fort Atkinson; from 1853 to 1855 at Jefferson; from 1855 to 1858 at Johnstown; from 1858 to 1864 at Koshkoning. He removed to Fort Atkinson in 1864, where, without charge, he remained until the close of his life, June 23, 1876. See Cong. Quarterly, 1877, p. 409.