Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Visick, James 1848 - 

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JAMES VISICK, a prosperous and enterprising business man of Mount Carmel, Pa.,

is efficiently serving in the position of outside-foreman of the Pennsylvania

Colliery. He is a son of Theophilus and Elizabeth (Moyle) Visick, and was born

in the County of Cornwall, England, March 23, 1848.



  Mr. Visick traces his ancestry on the paternal side to a French Huguenot

origin, and on the maternal side to Scotch-Irish.



  Theophilus Visick, the father of our subject, was a resident of the most

active and wealthy parish in the wonderfully rich mining district of County

Cornwall. He was a machinist by vocation, and throughout his life worked at that

trade about the copper and tin mines.



  James Visick was educated in the common schools of his native town, after

which he learned the trade of a machinist and engine-driver, at which he

continued until he reached the age of twenty-one years, when he set sail for

this country. He first located at Mt. Riga, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he

plied his trade with good results for four years, in connection with other

branches of the mining business. He acquired an extended knowledge of the

business and in 1873 accepted a position in the anthracite coal region of

Pennsylvania, erecting machinery for Mr. Holden Chester at the Luke Fidler

Colliery. His next position was with the Mineral Railroad & Mining Company, by

which he was employed to look after machinery. He remained with that company

until after the Union company was organized, and on December 1, 1884, became

outside-foreman of the Pennsylvania Colliery at Mount Carmel, Northumberland

County. He is a man of ability, faithful to the best interests of his employers,

and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-workmen and fellow-citizens.



  Mr. Visick was joined in the holy bonds of wedlock with Anna Maria Brey,

August 11, 1868, and they are the happy parents of the following children:

Minnie, who is at home with her parents; William, who is a blacksmith at the

colliery; Gifford, who also resides at home; and Myrtle.





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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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