BIOS: C. S. ICKES, Boswell, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 284/5

C. S. ICKES

C. S. Ickes, of Boswell, Pennsylvania, was born April 26, 1865, in 
Pleasantville, Bedford county, a son of John W. Ickes, who was born in 1829, in 
Bedford township, and a grandson of George and Susan (Slick) Ickes, the former a 
farmer of Bedford county.
John W. Ickes, like his father, was a farmer.  Politically he was a Republican.  
He married Susan Alstadt, born in 1832, in Pleasantville, and the following were 
their children: Rebecca, Henry, Emma, Anna, Chauncey S. and George. 
Chauncey S. Ickes, son of John W. and Susan (Alstadt) Ickes, received his 
education in the common schools of Bedford county, which he attended until the 
age of sixteen, and then for ten terms was engaged in teaching in the schools of 
his native county.  Subsequently he was employed for two years in the wire mill 
at Johnstown and then went to Eltonburg, where he again became a teacher.  He 
was also for a time a partner in a blacksmith's shop and finally obtained a 
position as manager of the Telephone Company of Scalp Level, where he remained 
four years.  In January, 1902, he moved to Boswell in order to assume the 
management of the Boswell Hardware Company, in which he holds an interest.  
While a resident of Scalp Level he was elected justice of the peace and burgess 
of Paint township, and since taking up his abode in Boswell has served two years 
as justice of the peace in addition to being at the present time burgess of the 
borough.
Mr. Ickes married, in 1891, Rose E., born April 15, 1863, in Johnstown, daughter 
of George and Agnes (Straub) Eichenschr, and their children were: Comfrey, Anson 
J., deceased; and Virgie.

[my note: John W. is John Wesley ICKES]