BIO: John K. DICK, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 93.
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  JOHN K. DICK, undertaker and dealer in paints, wall paper, etc., was born 
in Brush Valley, Indiana county, Pa., March 14, 1840.  He is a son of 
Alexander and Mary (Kelly) Dick, natives of Indiana county, where Mr. Dick 
was born in 1812.  Mr. Dick's vocation, to which he gave all his business 
life, was farming.  He has now retired from active pursuits and, with his 
wife, is spending the evening of his days in the county where they have 
always lived and worked.  Their children number twelve:  Mary A., widow of 
Andrew Simpson, of Indiana county; Elizabeth, widow of John Hood, of Brush 
Valley township, Indiana county; James, a farmer of Buffington township, 
Indiana county; Thompson, killed in a railroad accident; John K., Albert and 
Densmore, of Brush Valley; Harriet (Mrs. Joseph Alexander), of Center 
township, Indiana county; Sarah (Mrs. Robert Philips), Blairsville, Indiana 
county; Robert Nelson, died aged eight years; Margaret and Annie, residing 
at home.
  John K. Dick was brought up on the farm, and received his earliest 
scholastic training in the common schools of his native township, afterwards 
attending the high school in the town of Indiana.  His education finished, 
he taught school for a few winter terms in the same county, doing farm duty 
during the summer.  He was but eighteen years old when he enlisted in 1864 
in Company G, Two Hundred and Sixth, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  Having served 
his country well until the war was ended, he was mustered out at Camp 
Reynolds, July 1, 1865, and returned to the Indiana county home.  After 
learning house painting and paper hanging in Johnstown, Pa., Mr. Dick 
removed in 1871 to Huntingdon, and carried on those branches of business 
there for about nineteen years.  In 1890, he turned his attention to dealing 
in paints and wall paper, and in 1894, added undertaking as a branch of his 
business.  Mr. Dick is a member of George Simpson Post, No. 44, G. A. R.  He 
is a Republican.
  In Johnstown, on January 4, 1871, John K. Dick was married to Susan, 
daughter of John and Lydia Pringle, residents of Johnstown, both now 
deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Dick have had six children:  Alexander K.; Creola; 
Charles; Clarence P.; Pollie; and one infant that died.  The family attend 
the Presbyterian church.