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Reuben Flick

(07/10/1816 - 12/18/1890)

		John Flick
	Reuben Flick
Marriage(s)		Eva Barbara Kester
1 Margaret Arnold on: Children: - Living Flick - Living Flick - Living Flick - Living Flick - Reuben Jay Flick Siblings: - Elizabeth Flick - Deborah Flick - Catharine Flick - Joseph Flick - Lydia Flick	Born: Baptism:10/27/1816 Place:Plainfield Reformed Church, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, PA Sponsors:John Biesacker and Susanna Died: Burial: Notes: REUBEN J. FLICK DEAD. A Man Closely Related with the City's Growth and Industries Passes Away \emdash Sketch of his Career Reuben Jay Flick died at blood poisoning, resulting from kidney complaint, at his residence on South River St. Thursday morning at 13:15 o'clock. He had been slightly ill for about two months, but bad not been confined to bed until within a week, and not until then was his condition considered alarming. Mr. Flick was born at Flicksvllle. Northampton County, Penna., July 10, 1816. His father, John Flick, was a citizen of that county, and was twice elected to the State Legislature In 1840-41. At an early age Mr. Flick left home and remained in Easton for several years. 1888 found him in Wilkes-Barre, without money and without friends, and in our city he has resided without interruption ever since. His first experience and training was in the noted store of George M. Hollenback, on the South corner of West River and Market Sts. For some years he was engaged in the general mercantile trade and his first store was In the building on West Market St., now occupied by George W. Leach, the painter and paperhanger. His habits of thrift and economy enabled him to save in a non-money spending age, and in about 1850 he engaged in the manufacture and sale of powder. In 1870 he secured a charter for a State bank, and the present popular and prosperous People's Bank was managed by him as president till 1881, when he resigned to more minutely manage his constantly increasing private affairs, and give more time to the official positions of a large number of local manufacturing and charitable institutions with which he was connected. He has always led an active life and has contributed as much as any one man to the material growth and prosperity of this city. From their inception he has been a faithful director in the Vulcan Iron Works, the lace company, the electric light company, the Kingston Street Car Co., the Wyoming Valley Ice Co., the Newall Clothing Co. and the Iron Bridge Co., besides being a stockholder and supporter In numerous other local Industries. And their present prosperity is due in a large measure to his personal ability and integrity. His investments were all made at home in Wilkes-Barre, the city of his choice. His judgment in matters of business was highly regarded and much sought after. The leading charitable Institution of the city always found in him a sustaining friend. His private pension list was a large one. He contributed of his means to every deserving charity that was brought to his notice. When a young man be used to say that he had taken stock in every new church erected In the valley, and regarded them as his best investments. In charities also his administrative ability was called into action. He was a trustee In the city hospital, of the Home for Friendless Children, of the female seminary and of the Harry Hillman Academy. He was also trustee of Lincoln University, a negro college at Oxford, Pa., and in which he endowed a professorship. He was a trustee of the Board of Trade, and president of the 9th Regiment Band Association. Few men were connected with more charitable or business interests than he, and none were more faithful or more efficient in the discharge of the duties arising out of these public or private trusts, and none will be more missed or leave a place harder to fill. In private life Mr. Flick was plain, unassuming in demeanor, easy to approach, and sympathetic. He was decidedly positive in all his views, and having once made up his mind as to what was his duty, he could not be dissuaded. He was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he was a deacon, and for many years was superintendent of a large and prosperous Sunday school for colored people. Mr. Flick came of a family noted for their longevity, aid it was always a matter of pride with him. Though himself in his 75th year, his general health had been so good, and be had been so active till last October, that few believed him to be over 60. He is survived by three sisters, two of whom are considerably older than himself and in good health. His father was 86, his mother 82, and his grandfather 99, when they quit life. The latter had eleven children, of whom all but one lived to be over 80. Mr. Flick was married late in life, 1858, to Margaret Jane Arnold. Besides his widow be leaves, surviving him, five children: Liddon, an attorney; Warren J., a civil engineer; Helen; Harry, a fruit grower in Southern California; and Reuben Jay., Jr., a student in Princeton College. All are unmarried. Mr. Flick's estate is valued at $500,000. His family, with the exception of his son Harry, now on his way from California, were with him when he died.
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