BIO:  J. Lawrence SCHICK, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 371

J. LAWRENCE SCHICK, merchant, Gettysburg, was born in Lancaster, Penn., December 
25, 1822, son of J. L. and Susan (Holtzworth) Schick, the former a brewer by 
occupation and a native of Rhenish Bavaria, a province, on the Rhine, of 
Germany, and the latter of York County, Penn., and both of German descent.  J. 
Lawrence is the second of five sons.  His parents moved to Gettysburg in 1826, 
where his father died in 1828.  Our subject received only a limited common 
school education, and at the early age of twelve years was put to the tailor’s 
trade, at which he served a regular apprenticeship.  Subsequently, and when yet 
a young man, he embarked in the notion business, and that small beginning has 
grown into his present extensive store.  December 25, 1844, Mr. Schick was 
married to Mary, daughter of Conrad Hereter, of German extraction and to this 
union have been born two children, Rudolph M., a prominent attorney of 
Philadelphia, and Henry H. chief clerk in his father’s store.  Mrs. Schick died 
in 1851, and in 1853 Mr. Schick was married to Sarah J. Welty, of German 
descent.  The grandfather of the latter was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  
To this last marriage have been born the following named children:  Mary E., 
Charles W. (who resides at Dixon, Ill., engaged in the insurance business), Eva 
S. (wife of Rev. Charles S. Trump, a Lutheran minister), Anna K. (deceased), 
John L. (a machinist), and David W. (a student).  Before the late war, Mr. 
Schick was a Democrat in politics, but since that time he has been identified 
with the Republican party.  In 1855-56 he served as treasurer of Adams County.  
Mr. Schick has been a member of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association 
from the time of its organization, and since the year 1879, has been treasurer 
of the association.