Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....QUICK, George Matthew 1857 - living in 1899
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  GEORGE MATTHEW QUICK, attorney-at-law and ex-prothonotary of Columbia County, is
  one of the most prominent members of his profession in the town of Bloomsburg.
  He is finely educated, well versed in the intricacies of his calling and stands
  high among the members of the legal profession. Our subject was born in Montour
  township, Columbia County, Pa., November 15, 1857, and is a son of William Grier
  and Sarah (McBride) Quick, and a grandson of John H. and Sarah (Moore) Quick.
  
    John H. Quick was a native of the state of New Jersey and during his early
  clays he followed the trade of a shoemaker. Later he settled in Rush township,
  Northumberland County, but in 1831 he moved to Montour township, where he
  purchased a farm of 155 acres and there carried on general farming the rest of
  his life. Mr. Quick was one of the progressive farmers of Montour township, and
  the position Rush holds among her sister townships is due to the efforts of such
  men as Mr. Quick, who braved the hardships of pioneer life and, by persevering
  toil, subdued the land and brought it to its present state. He was united in
  marriage to Sarah Moore, who bore him the following children: John G., deceased;
  Charles, deceased; William G., deceased; Rosetta, who was the wife of Elias
  Dietrich; Mahala, wife of Eddings Barkley; Hettie, who wedded James Barton;
  Catherine; and Sarah, who married Thomas Thornton, both of whom are now
  deceased. Mr. Quick died aged sixty-five years.
  
     William Grier Quick, father of our subject, was born in Rush township,
  Northumberland County, Pa., September 4, 1815, and from his father learned the
  trade of a shoemaker, which he followed for a short time. Attaining his manhood,
  he moved to Montour township and purchased a small farm and carried on farming
  until he became lock-tender; later he became foreman of the North Branch of 'the
  Pennsylvania Canal between Danville and Stonytown; he remained in charge oft
  that position for nineteen years and then was foreman of the Wyoming Valley
  Branch for ten years. Later he was supervisor for the Pennsylvania Canal Company
  for eleven years, thus making forty years' service in the company's employ. In
  1868 Mr. Quick was elected county commissioner for a term of three years. He was
  joined in wedlock to Sarah McBride, a daughter of William McBride of Hemlock
  township. To Mr. and Mrs. Quick was born a family of six children, namely:
  William M., a blacksmith by trade; Hugh D., a resident of Rupert, Pa.; James,
  also a resident of Rupert; John B., who resides in Orangeville, Columbia County;
  Samuel M., deceased; and George M., our subject.
  
    Our subject received his primary training in the public schools and the
  Bloomsburg State Normal School. Upon his father's death he became foreman on the
  Pennsylvania Canal and remained in the position for two years, when he resigned
  to accept the office of deputy prothonotary, which he filled for ten years; he
  was then elected prothonotary by the largest vote ever cast for a candidate for
  that office. After serving six years he was admitted to the bar January 2, 1897,
  upon the following resolutions of which he may be justly proud, a compliment
  never before given to any retiring prothonotary in the Commonwealth:
  
    "Now, January 2, 1897, at a meeting of the Columbia County Bar Association,
  regularly called and held at 9 a. m. this day, the following was, on
  motion,—'Resolved, That the rule of court as to the admission of attorneys to
  the Bar of Columbia County be suspended to permit the admission of G. M. Quick,
  Esq., as a member of said bar in recognition of his sixteen years' continuous
  and particularly efficient service as Prothonotary and Clerk of the several
  courts of said county; and that the bar hereby join with the board of examiners
  in recommending his admission'— unanimously adopted."
  
    Upon opening his law office in Bloomsburg Mr. Quick was given a reception by
  the attorneys of that town.
  
    Mr. Quick chose for his life companion Miss Eva Bidleman, a daughter of
  William J. and Rebecca Bidleman of Bloomsburg, and two children bless their
  home, William G. and Eugene. In politics our subject is a Democrat and
  wide-awake to the interests of the party. He stands high in the estimation of
  the people and is one of the prominent citizens of the community in which he
  resides. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. Mr. Quick has fine natural
  abilities, is a good speaker, exceedingly diligent and careful and, being a man
  of magnificent presence and fine manners, has risen rapidly to distinction.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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