Career
Lieutenant Bickham carried a wounded soldier across a "fire swept field". His medal was awarded by Theodore Roosevelt on April 28, 1904. He served as a Colonel on the staff of Ohio Governor William McKinley.
During the Spanish–American War, he served as a Corporal in Company G, Third Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and later a Captain in the Ninth Regiment (Immunes), United States. Volunteer He served as a Captain during the Philippine–American War in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, United States. Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel
William East. Birkhimer. After receiving his commission in the regular army as a Lieutenant, he served again in the Philippines with the Twenty-seventh United States. Infantry under then-Captain John Jay Pershing.
After twice failing the professional examination required for promotion to captain, in 1909 and 1910, he was honorably discharged from the army in June 1910. He died December 14, 1944 and is buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum Dayton, Ohio.
His grave can be found in section 101, lot 1420.
