HICKOX, HORACE, brother to Virgil and Addison, was born Oct. 18, 1795, in Middlebury, New Haven county, Conn. He was married in 1817, at Rutland, Jefferson county, N. Y., to Eliza Stanley, who was born Oct. 28, 1799, at Augusta, Oncida county, N. Y. They had five children, three of whom died young. The family moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving early in 1836. Of their two children--

VOLNEY, born Nov. 1, 1835, in Rutland, N. Y., brought up in Springfield, prepared for college by Prof. Beaumont Parks, graduated at Yale College in the class of 1857, and admitted to the practice of law in 1858 at the bar of St. Louis, Mo. Early in the war of the rebellion he was appointed additional aid-de-camp on Gen. McClellan's staff; was mustered out in the spring of 1862. He was reappointed, with the rank of Captain, on Gen. Fremont's staff, and soon after assigned to duty on Gen. Hunter's staff, and was honorably mustered out in January, 1864. From the spring of 1865 to 1866, he was an army correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. In the fall of 1866 he went to New York, and was sent to the City of Mexico as correspondent to the New York Tribune, returning from there in 1867. Volney Hickox was married Oct. 1, 1873, at Batavia, Illinois. to Cassandra Browning Moore, who was born at that place, Sept. 9, 1849. They have one child, HART, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Hickox is a practical stenographer.

LELIA, born March 11, 1838, in Springfield, married in her native city in 1860 to John Hunter, an attorney of Cincinnati. She died December, 1871, in Springfield.

Mr. Horace Hickox was engaged in milling, in connection with his brother Addison, for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Hickox reside in Springfield.