Robert Kerr Wick and Bulina A. Rathbun

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Husband Robert Kerr Wick ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 15 Oct 1818 - Coitsville, Mahoning Co, OH 1
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           Died: 1902 4
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         Father: Daniel Wick (1786-1863) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Armitage (      -1869) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Jan 1846 1

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Wife Bulina A. Rathbun ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1820
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           Died: 1895 4
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Children

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1 F Mary Wick ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Elizabeth E. Wick ¹

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           Died: Aft 1909
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         Spouse: Samuel B. Bingham (      -Bef 1909) 1 4

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3 M Eugene E. Wick ^{2 3}

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           Born: 4 Jun 1852 - Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary G. Mathews (1853-      ) 3
           Marr: 5 Jan 1882 or 1885 3 4

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4 F Clara E. Wick ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Robert L. Brown (      -      ) 4 5

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5 F Eva J. Wick ^{4 5}

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6 F Margaret G. Wick ^{4 5}

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Kerr Wick

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He was born at Coitsville, Mahoning County, Ohio, and received his education at a subscription school, subsequently attending a select school at New Bedford. He received a certificate to teach, and taught for four terms, and afterwards became a salesman in a general store at Poland. He next followed the peddling business for two years, and on July 1, 1838, he located at Harrisville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, where for twenty years he was engaged in the manufacture and sale of fanning mills.
He was one of the most extensive farmers and stock-growers in that section of the state. He purchased at different periods a large amount of land in Harrisville and vicinity, and erected his residence in 1870. At one time he was the owner of over 4,000 sheep, which he had taken care of by different farmers, and settled the business without the loss of a cent or a lawsuit. He was one of the wealthiest citizens of Butler County. Politically, he was a Republican, served in the borough council, and was a member of the school board for several terms. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and superintendent of the Sabbath school. [HBC 1895, 1233]

He was reared under the parental roof, remaining at home until about nineteen years of age. He early in life engaged in business for himself, first as a peddler of tinware, later on making and selling wind mills. In 1837, when about nineteen years of age, he located in Harrisville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until after his marriage, when he purchased a farm in Mercer Township, where he followed farming and sheep raising the remainder of his life. He dealt in sheep on an extensive scale and had at one time 5,000 head. He became a man of affluence and prominence. In political affiliation he was a Republican and also an ardent supporter of the temperance cause, which eventually caused him considerable trouble and much loss, his barn having been destroyed by fire by the anti-temperance people. [TCHBBC, 1046]

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General Notes: Wife - Bulina A. Rathbun

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from Crawford Co, PA

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1233.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1045.

3 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 58.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1046.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1234.