Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Shick, Amos October 31, 1831 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 466, 467

Amos Shick
	It is with satisfaction that we accord to the well-known pioneer, 
worthy citizen and brave veteran, of whom we now speak, a place in the 
chronicles of Umatilla county, where his intrinsic worth, commendable 
qualities and straightforward life of wise conduct entitle him to honorable 
recognition.  The son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edlinger) Shick, natives of 
Pennsylvania, his life began in that state on October 31, 1831, and there he 
continued to reside until he was twenty-five years of age. During this time he 
gained a good common-school education and also acquired much experience in the 
ways of the business world. After this he came west to Minnesota, and a few 
years later went to Nebraska, where he resided for eighteen years. It was 
while living in this territory that the call came for troops to fight for the 
flag, and quickly Mr. Shick responded, enlisting in 1862 in Company A, Second 
Nebraska Cavalry, under Captain Reed, Major Armstrong and Colonel Furnace. He 
was in continuous service for fourteen months, but had enlisted for nine. 
During this time he participated in the White Stone Hill battle, and for the 
balance of the time was in a continuous running fight after the Indians.
	On November 2, 1857, Miss Martha J. Bender, daughter of David and 
Lydia (Tawney) Bender, became his wife, and to them have been born nine 
children, six of whom are deceased, Edwin, Charles, Harry, William, John and 
Nonna, and three, Victor, Ladora and Arthur, are living.  In the fall of 1877 
Mr. Shick left Nebraska and sought a place in the west, which he found in this 
county. He took up the homestead where he now lives, five miles northwest from 
Athena, and has added, by purchase, eighty acres more, all of which he has 
continuously farmed since.  His principal crop is wheat, of which cereal his 
summer fallow land will produce thirty bushes per acre annually; the varieties 
his experience has proved the best for this locality are red chaff and blue 
stem. Although his realty holdings are not so great as some of the wheat 
farmers in his section, still he has made a marked success in growing that 
crop, and his land is exceptionally tilled and an air of thrift and care is 
perceptibly pervading his premises. He has a good house and other substantial 
improvements, and he has made a name for himself by his fairness and upright 
life, coupled with wisdom in the affairs of the world, that is respected and 
esteemed by all his large acquaintanceship.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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