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'''Lorena Alice Hickok''', lesbian lover of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Lorena was born [[Mar 7]], 1893 in East Troy, [[Wisconsin]], the daughter and eldest child of Addison J Hickok (1864-1932) and his wife Anna Adelsa Waite (1870-1906).  Addison and Anna had married April 1891 in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Her mother died [[Sep 20]], 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]], leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle.  About fifteen months later, on [[Jan 1]], 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota.

She died [[May 1]], 1968, age seventy-five.

==Primary documents==
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SD_marr_cert%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=1&recid=205632&recoff=1+2 South Dakota Marriages 1905-1949] showing "Addison Hickok of Aberdeen, Brown County, 44, American, widower to Emma Flashman of Aberdeen, Brown County, 37, Divorced; by J W Taylor, Minster, of Aberdeen Jan 1, 1908" (ancestry incorrectly indexed this marriage as occurring in 1907).

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1920usfedcen%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Adison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=89694801&recoff=14+16 1920 Census of Newark, Marshall County, South Dakota] showing "Adison J Hickok, 58, born New York; Fannie, wife, 54, born Iowa"

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SDdeaths%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Addison&gsln=Hickok&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=121378&recoff=7+9 South Dakota Death Index, 1905-55] Showing "Addison J Hickok, died Oct 7, 1932 in Brown County".

==Secondary Sources==
''The Life of Lorena Hickok, E.R.'s Friend'', by Doris Faber. William Morrow and Company, New York, 1980. ISBN 0688036317

[[Category:South Dakota]]
[[Category:Wisconsin]]