BIO: William CHICK, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 653 & 654.
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  WILLIAM CHICK, whose farm of fifty acres is situated in Sandy township, two 
miles southeast of DuBois, has been a resident of Clearfield county since 1888, 
but he was born in England.  His parents, William and Ellen Chick, are both 
deceased.  He has one sister, Frances, who is the wife of John Charlton and they 
also live in Clearfield county.
  William Chick had but few educational opportunities when he was a boy and 
started to work in the coal mines in England when he was only eleven years of 
age.  He came to America at the age of seventeen years and worked first in the 
mines in Luzerne county, Pa., later worked for six months in the mines in Carbon 
county and one year in the Adrian mines at Punxsutawney, Pa.  In 1888 he came to 
DuBois and invested his savings in his present farm, purchasing from Harriet 
Bogle, and for several years afterward kept away from the mines, occupied 
entirely in cultivating his land and in working in the woods.  He subsequently 
turned his attention to the raising of poultry and has made a success of this 
business, going about it in a very practical way and making suitable 
preparations, including the building of a large poultry house, constructed of 
concrete.  He has excellent water facilities, plenty of running space for his 
fowls, and his present average of selling is 1,200 Plymouth Rock chickens a 
year.  He has improved his place in every way, rebuilding the house and making 
his surroundings attractive.
  When Shaft No. 1 of the DuBois mines was sunk, Mr. Chick entered the employ of 
the company as sinker and later resumed mining and subsequently was made check 
weighman.  From that position he was promoted to that of fire boss, then was 
made mine foreman, and in October, 1910, was appointed superintendent of the 
shaft, succeeding S. C. Crist.  His long experience as a miner makes Mr. Chick a 
valuable official to the company and a popular one with the miners as he has 
passed through every experience and thus thoroughly understands every condition.
  Mr. Chick was married December 25, 1888, to Miss Margaret Bogle, a daughter of 
Robert and Harriet Bogle, and they have had ten children:  William R., Harriet, 
Adeline, Grace, Margaret, Ruth, Joseph, Myrtle, Lillian and Amelia, all of whom 
survive except little Myrtle, who died when only six years old.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Chick are members of the Episcopal church.  He is identified fraternally with 
the Red Men and the Knights of Pythias, and belongs also to the Grange.