Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Flick, Edward H. August 16, 1860 - ???? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Banja http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000757 December 18, 2024, 5:36 pm Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892. Author: Samuel T. Wiley EDWARD H. FLICK, now resident of Altoona, and a member of the Blair county bar, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Sharbaugh) Flick, and was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1860. Ere the star of the great Napoleon had begun to wane o'er the snows of Russia, and while Alsace still remained an integral part of the empire of France, one of the families that resided in that province was the Flick family, one of whose members was John Flick. He grew to manhood in his home near the waters of the beautiful Rhine, in what is now a part of the territory of Alsace-Lorraine, a province of the present German empire, and at nineteen years of age, in 1830, emigrated from the Alsace to Cambria county, this State, where he settled at Carrollton, which has been his place of residence ever since. During the earlier part of his life he was chiefly engaged in farming, but of late years he has not been active in agricultural pursuits or in any line of business. Although an octogenarian in years, he still retains his memory well, while his mental powers have not been impaired by his advanced age. He is a member of the Catholic church, and a democrat in politics, and married Elizabeth Sharbaugh, who was born in the same Rhineland province as her husband, and died at Carrollton in the fall of 1869, when in the forty-seventh year of her age. Edward H. Flick was reared in his native town of Carrollton, and received a classical education at St. Vincent's college, a flourishing literary institution of Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and western Pennsylvania which was founded in connection with St. Vincent's abbey by the Rt. Rev. Boniface Wimmer, of sainted memory. Leaving college he determined upon the profession of law as a life vocation, and entered the office of A. V. Barker, then a prominent lawyer of Ebensburg, Cambria county, and now president judge of the courts of that county. Upon the completion of his course of reading he was admitted to the bar of Cambria county in the spring of 1883, and practiced at Carrollton until the spring of 1884, when he came to the city of Altoona, where he has been continuously and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession up to the present time. On June 30, 1891, Mr. Flick united in marriage with Annie, daughter of John O'Connor, of Pittsburg. Edward H. Flick is a straight democrat in politics, and a member of the Catholic church. He was elected city solicitor for Altoona city on April 18, 1892, for a term of two years, commencing with the first Monday of May, 1892. Additional Comments: Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Barb Griffin griffibf@email.uc.edu This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb