Cumberland County, Maine - Nathaniel Fickett
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Biography
Nathaniel Fickett
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 696-697


Nathaniel Fickett, a well-to-do farmer of Pownal, was born in Bridgton, Me.,
December 21, 1838, son of Nathaniel and Eliza (Walker) Fickett. His father, who
was a native of Westbrook, Me., settled when a young man in the town of Pownal,
where he resided for some time. He later moved to Chebeague, where he passed the
rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy-seven years. He was an industrious
and energetic man, highly esteemed as a citizen and neighbor. He served as a
soldier in the War of 1812. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife Elizabeth,
who was born in Pownal, became the mother of a large family of children, some of
whom died in infancy. Four sons and two daughters still survive- Mary Ann Ward,
Nathaniel, Albion K. P., Freeman, Eliza Walker, and Greenville. The mother lived
to reach the age of eighty-six years. Both she and her husband were members of
the Congregational church.

Nathaniel Fickett passed his boyhood and youth in Pownal, receiving his
education in the common schools of that town. He was reared to agriculture,
which has been his occupation through life. He bought his first land in
Chebeague, where he resided for some time. In 1853 he returned to Pownal and
located on his present farm, having since been successfully engaged in general
farming. He has one hundred and thirty acres of well-improved land, the
fertility of which he has increased by well-directed labor; and his present
comfortable circumstances are the result of his untiring energy and steady
perseverance. His farm occupies a pleasant situation in the most desirable part
of the town, and his residence and other buildings are substantially constructed
and kept in the best of repair.

In 1855 Mr. Fickett was united in marriage to Miss Z. Mitchell. She was born
upon the farm which her husband now occupies, a daughter of Deacon Benjamin
Mitchell, who was an early settler in Pownal and a prominent man in his day. The
Mitchell family is an old and highly respected one in Cumberland County, and
descends from Benjamin and Mehitable (Bragdon) Mitchell, the former of whom was
an early settler in North Yarmouth.

Mr. Fickett is a Democrat in politics, and has long held a prominent position in
public affairs. He has served the town ably as a member of the Board of
Selectmen and in other important offices. He is still engaged in attending to
his, every-day duties about. the farm, and possesses the  strength and agility
of a much younger man. He is liberal in his religious views, and his wife is a
member of the Congregational church.