WICKES, Stephen, physician, born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 17 March, 1813. He is a descendant of Thomas Wickes, of the Massachusetts colony of 1635. He was graduated at Union college in 1831. In 1832 he entered the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, Troy, New York, where he studied chemistry and natural science one year, and afterward ha was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. Ha practised one year in New York, fifteen in Troy, New York, and since 1852 has been in Orange, New Jersey He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Princeton in 1868, and is connected with medical and other learned societies, and is secretary of the New Jersey historical society. In February, 1886, he withdrew from the active labor of his profession, and has since devoted himself to literary work. He edited the "Transactions" of the Medical society of New Jersey from 1860 till 1882, also the old transactions of the same from 1766 till 1858, and has published "Topography of Orange" (Newark, 1859); "Water-Cure in Orange" (1861) ; " Memoirs of Thomas W. Blatchford, M. D., of Troy" (1866); "Memorial Volume, First Presbyterian Church, Orange, New Jersey" (1870); "Living and Dying, their Physics and Psychics" (1874); "History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men to A. D. 1800" (1879); "Sepulture, its History, Methods, and Requisites" (1884); and "History of the Newark Mountains" (1888).--His brother, Thomas, clergyman, born in Jamaica, New York, 31 October, 1814; died in Orange, New Jersey, 10 November, 1870, was graduated at Yale in 1834, studied theology at Princeton and at New Haven theological seminary, and was ordained as an evangelist in 1839. He became pastor of the 1st Congregational church of Marietta, Ohio, in July, 1840, and after a successful pastorate of twenty-nine years resigned and was called to the Presbyterian church of Jamestown, New York, where he remained only about a year, owing to the failure of his health. He had been active in the formation of the Marietta Congregational conference and of the Ohio state conference, and was chosen moderator of the latter in 1853, and again in 1860. In 1849 he was elected a trustee of Marletta college, and he received the degree of D.D. from Wabash college in 1860. He published "Exposition of the Apocalypse" (New York, 1851) ; "The Son of Man" (Boston, 1868) ; "The Household" (1868); and " Economy of the Ages" (1869).