William J. Trickett
(January 22, 1885 - May 10, 1970)

William Joseph, second son of Edson and Rebecca Alice Hartzell Trickett, was born on January 22, 1885. He married Jean Robertson Giffen around 1908, a union that lasted for more than 61 years. William died in 1970 at age 85, less than a year after Jean's death.

He was 6 feet 2 inches tall, redheaded, lanky and handsome. His hands, inherited from his father, were incredibly large. So large, in fact (my father Edison often said), that he could hide a baseball! And they were tremendously strong, a strength no doubt developed as a young man working a pick ax in the Pennsylvania mines. He escaped the mines, but not before he was nearly crushed to death by a coal slab that left his back flecked with blue shale.

Among the couple's seven children was my father, Edison Trickett.

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John
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George
William
Frank
Joyce Marie

Birth Year Events
(1885)

Deaths

Ulysses S. Grant
Geo. B. McClellan

Births

Bess Truman
George S. Patton
Chester Nimitz
Jerome Kern
Louis B. Mayer
Niels Bohr
Ring Lardner
Will Durant

Publishing

Good Housekeeping
Huckleberry Finn

Business

AT&T Incorporated

Medicine

1st Appendectomy performed

Events

Washington Monument dedicated
Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York

Perspective
(1885-1915)

1885
Brahms, Sym. No. 4
Niels Bohr born
Karl Benz builds car engine
Sinclair Lewis born
Geo. Eastman manufactures photo paper
Fox introduces golf to America
U.S. Grant dies
John L. Sullivan wins first MoQ rules prize fight

1886
Statue of Liberty dedicated
Germanium discovered
Aluminum produced
English Lawn Tennis Assoc. founded
Ty Cobb born
AF of L founded
Henri Moussan produces fluoride
Daved Ben-Gurion born

1887
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes first Sherlock Holmes story
Marc Chagall born
H.W. Goodwin invents celluloid film
Julian Huxley born

1888
Benj. Harrison elected U.S. President
Eugene O'Neill born
Irving Berlin born
Jim Thorpe born
Testa constructs electric motor
Eastman perfects Kodak box camera
T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) born
Jack the Ripper murders 5
First beauty contest held

1889
First Prepared Food (Aunt Jemima)
E.P. Hubble born
Herman Hollerith invents punchcard system
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington granted statehood
Adolph Hitler born
Eiffel designs tower