Editing Hicksville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Led by Henry W. Hicks, the Hicks Land Company [[plat]]ted the community in 1835 and 1836.<ref name="History 281">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924006137578#page/n323/mode/2up | title=History of Defiance County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Etc.; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Farm Views; Personal Reminiscences, Etc | publisher=Warner, Beers | year=1883 | pages=280–281}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Hicksville since 1838.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Defiance | title=Defiance County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=December 21, 2015}}</ref> Hicksville was incorporated as a village in 1871.<ref name="History 281" /> Hicksville made its debut in American literature in 1885 when [[Mark Twain]] mentioned the town in chapter 33 of ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''.  [[Tom Sawyer]] claims to be a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm|title=HUCKLEBERRY FINN, By Mark Twain, Complete|website=goo.gl|access-date=September 22, 2018}}</ref>