PETER ICKES, farmer, Monroe Township, Carroll County, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, about the year 1830.  His father, John Ickes, was born in Bedford County, Penn., where he married Miss Elizabeth Stine, and is an early day he came to Tuscarawas County, where he entered a tract of land, on which he resided till his death, which occurred Aug. 6, 1851, when he was sixty-four years old; his widow died in 1859.  They were the parents of eight children, viz.: Jonas (deceased), Benjamin (residing in New Philadelphia, Ohio), Peter (our subject), John (residing in Tuscarawas County), William (in Blackford County, Ind.), Elizabeth (deceased), Esther (residing in Tuscarawas County, Ohio), and Ann Wright (in Tuscarawas County).
     Peter Ickes grew to manhood in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and there married Nancy Garrett, to which union were born the following named children: James (who resides in Monroe Township), John (at home), Levi (in Del Roy), Robert H. (in Dell Roy), and Joseph M., Peter E., Clara D. and Margaret A.  (all four at home).  Mr. Ickes, after his marriage, resided in Tuscarawas County about two years, and then came to Monroe Township and purchased the farm he now owns, containing eighty-nine acres on which he has erected a fine residence and barn.  His wife died Oct. 6, 1885, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Politically Mr. Ickes is Democratic.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 1043