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Source:
History of Western Reserve
by Harriet Taylor Upton
Vol. III of 3
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
1910
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MYRON C. WICK - The
business career of Myron C. Wick, one of the prominent and
influential citizens of Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, has been
signally characterized by courage, confidence, progressiveness and
impregnable integrity of purpose, and none has a more secure status
as a representative business man and citizen of the Western Reserve.
He is a member of one of the honored pioneer families of the
Reserve, and those who have borne the name have done much to
conserve the civic and industrial development and upbuilding of this
favored section of the old Buckeye state. His capitalistic
interests are of wide scope and importance and he exemplifies that
fine initiative talent which has made our great American republic
forge to the forefront among the great commercial nations of the
world.
Myron C. Wick is a native of the city in which
he now maintains his home, having been born in Youngstown on May 9,
1848, and being the son of Paul and Susan A. (Bull) Wick,
concerning whom specific mention is made in the memoir dedicated to
his father, on other pages of this publication. The
preliminary educational training of Mr. Wick was secured in
the common schools of Youngstown, and later he completed a course in
a preparatory department of the Western Reserve University, at
Hudson, Ohio. He found it inexpedient to enter the academic
department of the university, and after leaving this institution was
employed for several years as a clerk in the establishment of
Wick Brothers Company, of Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, and he
continued as one of the active administrative officers of this
banking house from 1869 to 1871, in which latter year he assumed the
position of teller in the Wick Brothers' bank, in Youngstown.
Six years later, owing to the impaired health of his wife, he
removed to Florida, where he remained one year. He then
removed to the state of Kansas, where he was extensively identified
with the cattle industry until 1879, when he returned to Youngstown,
which city has since represented his home and been the center of his
manifold business interests. Upon his return to his native
county, he identified himself with the iron manufacturing industry,
by the purchase of stock in the Corns Iron Company, of Girard.
He later disposed of his interest in this concern and was appointed
by the creditors' commission to take charge of the business of the
firm of Cartwright, McCurdy & Co., which had become
insolvent. Working under extension privileges, he was made
president and general manager of the company. A number of the
stockholders of the Cartwright & McCurdy Company were
indebted to the company and they were allowed to pay their
indebtedness in stock at a price that was considered a fair value
for it at the time and he was given an option to take over the stock
of the concern at that price if he should succeed in straightening
out its affairs. He placed the business upon a substantial
foundation and a reorganization was effected under the title of the
Cartwright & McCurdy Company. Of this corporation he
continued president until July, 1892, when its business was
consolidated with that of the Youngstown Iron & Steel Company, under
the corporate title of the Union Iron & Steel Company, of which he
remained president until February 1899, when the whole business was
absorbed by the National Steel Company, which was later merged into
the U. S. Steel Company, since which time he has not been in any
active business. Mr. Wick is vice-president of the
First National Bank; was vice-president of the Wick National
Bank of Youngstown, which consolidated with the Dollar Savings &
Trust Company in 106; is a director of the Ohio Iron & Steel Company
and the Dollar Savings & Trust Company. He is also a
stockholder in a large hardware establishment at Wallace, Idaho, and
in that section is also interested in the ownership and development
of several silver mining properties. He is also executor of
the large estate of his honored father, the late Paul Wick.
As a business man Myron C. Wick has ever displayed most
progressive and energetic methods and his entire career has
been marked by integrity of purpose, so that he has retained the
unqualified confidence and esteem of all who have been associated
with him in any kind of business relations. No citizen has
shown a higher degree of civic loyalty and none has been more
generous in contributing to all that tends to conserve the material
and social progress and wellbeing of the community. He has not
hedged himself in with the narrow boundaries of self-aggrandizement,
but has been liberal, generous and tolerant in his relations with
his fellow men, and has given his support with much of appreciation
to both public and private benevolences and charities. He has
maintained a high sense of his stewardship and has appreciated the
responsibilities that wealth imposes. This is shown in the
generous sympathy and aid extended to those in affliction or
distress. Though he has never been a seeker of political
preferment of any order, he accords a stanch allegiance to the
Republican party. He is identified with various fraternal and
social organizations of representative character, and boh he and his
wife are zealous members of the First Presbyterian church of
Youngstown, contributing liberally to the support of the various
departments of its work, as well as to its collateral benevolences.
Mr. Wick is essentially democratic and genial in his bearing
and has stanch friends among all classes and conditions of men.
In March, 1875, Mr. Wick was united in marriage
to Miss Susan T. Winchell the daughter of George D. and
Susan Winchell of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Wick was
summoned to eternal rest at Daytona, Florida, on the 7th of January,
1880, and is survived by one child. Laura, who was
graduated at Cambridge School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On
the 30th of November, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Wick to Miss Elizabeth G. Bonnell, who was born and
reared in Youngstown and who is a daughter of William Bonnell,
concerning whom specific mention is made on other pages of this
volume. Of the second marriage five children were born -
Helen, Philip, Paul, Myron C., Jr. and Caroline Bonnell.
Helen was born on the 11th of April, 1884, and died on the 24th
of October, 1888. Her loss was the cause of deepest
bereavement, and in her memory Mr. Wick erected a most
effective and appropriate monument, having built a fine Sunday
school building for the First Presbyterian church, the same being
located at teh corner of Wood and Champion streets. In 1901,
being interested that the working men of Youngstown should have
better hospital conditions he entered into an arrangement with some
of the city's doctors, and agreed to build the administration
building, power house and three wards towards a new hospital
building, which was later carried out and which stands today as a
testimonial of his interest in the people of Youngstown.
Source: History of Western Reserve
by Harriet Taylor Upton -
Vol. II -
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company -
1910 - Page 1698 |
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