Biography

04/14/1888 - 10/03/1953

GICKING, Oliver, a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pa., April 14, 1888; attended, Hazleton Business College; grocer; traveling salesman; alderman, 10th Ward, Hazleton (1920-1926); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Upper Lehigh (1921); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1929 and 1931 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1933 term; bookkeeper, Luzerne County government; died, October 3, 1953 in Hazelton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Conyngham Union Cemetery, Conyngham, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.