Stories in Stones: Stories from Oneida County, NY Cemeteries

       Charles Wells Wicks was born in Paris Hill to Charles Chidsey and Nancy Bicknell Wicks on December 16, 1861. In 1879 he graduated from Sauquoit Academy. He came to Utica that fall where he was employed in the wholesale grocery of Head and Winston for two years. He later worked a short while at Austin Nichols and Co in New York City.     In 1881, Charles W. Wicks started working at Roberts, Butler and Company ( a clothing company). After working in stock for two years he became a traveling salesman. When J. Milton Butler (who became head of the company after James Roberts passed away) died 1895 Mr. Wicks and his brother Russell H. took the business over and it became Roberts, Wicks and Company.        Charles resigned from Roberts, Wicks and Company in 1904 and went into the retail business with George H. Greenman on Franklin Square the firm was named Wicks and Greenman. In 1909 they sold it to the Talbot company of Bosto...

       Daniel C. Dye was born June 23, 1860 to Amassa and Caroline Hutchinson Dye in Rockwood, NY. H e studied medicine there. He graduated from the Department of Medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan in 1885.      The following fall Dr. Dye came to Utica. He also practiced in Cleveland, NY. He was house physician at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica from 1879 to July 1892. From July 1892 to until he retired in 1931 he was on the surgical staff of the Hospital. He was a member of the Oneida County Medical Society he was elected president of the society in 1896.     Other societies and associations Dr. Dye was a member of were: State Medical Society; Utica Medical Library Association; Utica Medical Club (which he helped organize); Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. For a number of years he was one of the ward physicians of Utica. Two different times (1908-09 and 1912-13) he was one of the school physi...