Friedrich Wilhelm Zickerick, born in Gruenrade, Kreis Koenigsberg, Brandenburg, Germany on 8 Sep 1825 to Michael Zickerick and Dorothee Charlotte Wolgast. William Zickerick married Henrietta Zimmerman Zickerick and had 3 children. Came to America in 1849. Passed away on 19 Nov 1906 in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA.
William Zickerick was ordained preacher at the Eleventh Annual Session of the Illinois Conference of the Evangelical Association in June 1855. He was the first missionary to come to Two Rivers and Mishicot in 1856 (there had been some circuit riders prior to this). He was ordained Deacon at the First Annual Session of the Wisconsin Conference in May 1857, and at the Third Annual Session of the Wisconsin Conference in May 1859, he was ordained Elder. Rev. Zickerick’s thirty years of ministerial service included: Milwaukee District, Menomonee Circuit, 1855-1856; Sheboygan Circuit, 1856-1857; Oshkosh Mission, 1857-1859; Madison District, Dane County Circuit, 1859-1861; Fox River Circuit, 1861-1862; Inactive Elder, 1862-1866; General Collector, 1866; Inactive Elder, 1867-1872 [serving in the Civil War]; Fond du Lac District, Oshkosh Mission, 1872-1874; Morrison Circuit and Oconto Mission, 1874-1875; Calumet Circuit, 1875-1878; Appleton Mission, 1878-1881; Calumet Circuit, 1881-1883; Fond du Lac Mission, 1883-1886; Neenah Circuit and Mission, 1886-1889; Ripon, 1889-1892; Oshkosh, 1892-1896; Member of Oshkosh Quarterly Conference, 1896-1899 and 1902-1906.
William Zickerick had served three years in the Prussian Army before immigrating to the United States of America; he enlisted in the Union Army on January 1, 1862 at the rank of Private. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on March 1, 1862 and to Captain on July 18, 1862. He served in the 12th Regiment Independent Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery. His military service included the Battle of Vicksburg with General Grant’s army and the March to the Sea with General Sherman’s army. At the end of the Civil War, William Zickerick mustered out of the army on June 7, 1865 at the rank of Captain. During his years of service in the Union Army he was reported as an Inactive Elder.
Zickerick’s death came as a result of paralysis, induced by three strokes he had suffered within his last eight years.
See also:
Report to accompany H. R. 12413, William Zickerick, Committee on Invalid Persons, 57th Congress, 2nd Session, December 15, 1902.
Roeseler, John S. “The Evangelical Association on Lomira Circuit,” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Jun., 1921), pp. 392-416.