Bios: SAMUEL L. WICK: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
  
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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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      SAMUEL L. WICK,
      
      [p. 454] an enterprising and prosperous merchant of Wurtemberg, Lawrence
    Co., Pa., was born in Butler Co., Pa., Sept. 11, 1859, and began his
    education in the district schools, when he arrived at a suitable age. He
    continued his studies in Grove City College in Mercer Co., and finding
    himself well adapted to educational work, and fonder of teaching than of the
    routine work of the farm, he took up that calling, and for fourteen years
    devoted his energies to planting the seeds of knowledge in youthful minds,
    his field of labor lying in Butler County. Finally, when even teaching became
    irksome to him, a fine business opportunity presented itself, and he left the
    work in which he had been engaged for so many years, and entered upon a
    mercantile career in Wurtemberg, where he is at present conducting a
    well-appointed general store that has proved quite a money-maker. That Mr.
    Wick has been so successful is due to his ability to anticipate the wants of
    the community and to supply almost their every need in a courteous, urbane
    manner that gives offense to none, and attracts those who would find an
    agreeable salesman. He is perfectly acquainted with business forms and
    methods, for before he undertook teaching he had received instruction in
    Duff's Commercial College in Pittsburg, Pa. He chose for his wife Elizabeth
    Fisher, daughter of Solomon Fisher of West Liberty, Pa., and she is the
    mother of one son, Charles. The family are members of the M. E. Church, and
    may be found among its most regular attendants and most earnest supporters.
    Mr. Wick is a thorough Republican, believing that the protection of home
    industry is of advantage to the business circles of the land. He has not had
    reason to regret his change of occupation, as mercantile life offers many
    inducements to the man who is wide-awake and alert to the main opportunity.
      
      Mr. Wick's father was William S. Wick, who was bound by close ties to
    Butler Co., Pa., for there he first saw the light and there he passed the
    years of his boyhood and then of his manhood. He purchased land near what is
    known as the "Old Stone Tavern," and established himself thereon, paying
    especial attention to stock-raising, and chiefly to breeding a fine grade of
    Short-horn cattle. He retained possession of this farm, and was active in
    carrying on the work until his death at the age of fifty-one. His wife, Mary,
    was a daughter of Andrew Turke, a native of Butler County; she bore him these
    children, eleven in number: John; Sarah; Perry; Jennie; W. S., Jr.; Samuel
    L., whose biography is given above; Wesley E.; Martha; Ada; Emma; and Myra.
    Our subject's grandfather was John Wick of Westmoreland Co., Pa., who was a
    hardy farmer, and attended to the duties of his farm up to a few months
    before his death at the age of seventy-seven.