CORNICK BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CORNICK, Edgar - b: 1874 Ripley, Brown Co, OH
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 302
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

Edgar Cornick, proprietor of the Clinton Green House, is one of the progressive 
business men of Clinton, and at the head of the oldest established green house in 
the county. This green house is located in the southwestern part of the city on 
Artesian avenue, and was established about twelve years ago. About three acres 
are devoted to flower and plant culture and about 6,500 square feet are under 
glass. Here all kinds of plants, flowers, bulbs and shrubs usually found in a 
modern green house are kept growing summer and winter. The plant is equipped 
with steam heat so that the temperature can be kept normal for plant life during 
the most severe winter weather. The Clinton Green House has customers covering 
a large scope of territory and flowers are shipped to numerous towns in the 
surrounding country. Edgar Cornick was born near Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, 
December 1, 1874, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Van Landingham) Cornick. 
Thomas Cornick, the father, was a son of John Cornick, who came to Ohio with his 
parents when he was a child. He died in 1874. He was a native of Pennsylvania 
and a son of Thomas Cornick, who came to Ohio with his family at a very early 
date, before Ohio was admitted to statehood, and settled in what later became 
Brown County. When the Cornick family crossed the Allegheny Mountains on their 
way to Ohio, which was then the far west, they carried their belongings on pack 
horses, and the subject of this sketch has heard it related by his ancestors how 
they carried their children in two large baskets that were suspended on either 
side of one of the horses, and the grandfather of Mr. Cornick of this review was 
one of the children that was thus carried from Pennsylvania. Thomas Cornick, the 
great-grandfather of Edgar, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and spent the 
latter years of his life in Ohio. Thomas Cornick, the father of our subject, was a 
soldier in the Union army during the Civil War and served in Battery F, First Ohio 
Light Artillery. He enlisted when the war broke out and served until its close, and 
took part in several important engagements but was never wounded. Elizabeth 
(Van Landingham) Cornick was born in Flemmingsburg, Kentucky, in 1831 and 
came to Ohio with her parents in 1845. She was a daughter of Manly Van 
Landingham. She died in 1911. Her husband departed this life in 1909. Edgar 
Cornick was one of a family of six children born to his parents who are now 
living: Thomas, resides near Ripley, Ohio; Mary, married G. C. Jordan, Lavanna, 
Ohio; W. N., Clinton, Missouri; Ida, married W. T. Jordan, a former resident of 
Clinton, now residing at Lavanna, Ohio; Arthur, Clinton, Missouri, and Edgar, the 
subject of this sketch. Mr. Cornick was reared and educated in Ohio. He first came 
to Missouri in 1898, and after spending about a year here returned to Ohio and for 
a time was engaged in farming and later entered the shoe business. In 1913 he 
returned to Missouri, and for two years was employed in the green house which 
he purchased in 1915, in partnership with W. T. Jordan, and later bought Mr. 
Jordan's interest. Mr. Cornick is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and 
the Woodmen of the World, and politically is identified with the Republican 
party, although he is inclined to be independent. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.

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