Biographical Sketch of Alice Morgan Wickizer (Mrs. D. A. Wickizer)

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Text from Wilson, Louis C. (editor), Twentieth Century Sermons and
Addresses, being a Series of Practical and Doctrinal Discources by Some of
our Representative Men and Women, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company,
1902. Pages 137-138. This online edition (c) 1998, James L. McMillan.
Copied with permission in 1999 by Dennis Nicklaus from
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~mcmillan/Restlit/Biogs/wickizam.htm
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Born: South English, Iowa, Dec. 23, 1866.
Died: June 14, 1917.

Was born Dec. 23, 1866. She inherited the legacy of those whose     
early life is spent upon the farm, a strong constitution and a love
for labor. By right of inheritance she was endowed with strong religious
principles, and an ambition for mental and spiritual development. Her
father, W. A. Morgan, was a native of Ohio, and in the early days of the
fifties came to Iowa, homesteading land in Keokuk County. Her mother comes
from Kentucky parentage and descends from a line of preachers. Was born in
Indiana, from whence she came in 1856 with her parents to Iowa. It was while
she and Mr. Morgan there both engaged in teaching school that they met and
afterward united their energies, helping to make and to lay the foundation
of a great State upon the prairies of Iowa. To the faithfulness of these
parents in Christian principles and zeal are largely due the consecrated
lives of their children.

Alice was the sixth in order of birth of a family of seven children. Three
of her brothers, F. A., O. T. and L. W. Morgan, were ordained to the
ministry, and her sister Clara is the wife of B. A. Wilkinson, one of our
faithful preachers now in Nebraska. Her early education was received in the
district school, and, following the example of many others, she did service
as a teacher in the building where she experienced her first day of school.
When in her seventeenth year she entered Drake University, graduating with
the class of '90. As a student she ranked high among her classmates, and
received frequent recognition of her ability in the school. It was here that
she met D. A. Wickizer, and on June 24, 1890, they were united in marriage
by President Aylsworth. She at once entered heartily into the work, and few
ministers have ever had more devoted and consecrated help.

Mrs. Wickizer has been active in Christian Woman's Board of Missions work in
Iowa, as organizer and as president of that organization. Also was for a
time State superintendent of Junior work. Her many addresses at conventions
and upon special occasions have always merited the appreciation that they
receive. She has received many beautiful tributes in press notices and
otherwise regarding her addresses. Of recent, her family cares have deprived
her of doing much public work except with the congregation for which her
husband labors. Hers is one of those lives that inspires people who come in
contact with her, causing them to long for a purer life, and a larger
spiritual development. It has been my good fortune to know the subject of
this sketch from early childhood, and to watch her active and useful life.
If her husband, D. A., was unable to fill his pulpit, he was never at a loss
for a substitute, which he found in the person of his devoted and
accomplished wife, and the audience was never disappointed. Sister W. is of
pleasing address, instructive and Scriptural. She is a charming entertainer
in her home.

L. C. WILSON.