Jacob Frick (1834-1901), (painting).

Jacob Frick (1834-1901), (painting).

Nachtrieb, Michael Strieby, 1835-1916, painter.

Jacob Frick (1834-1901), (painting).

Digital Reference:

27 1/2 x 22 in.

Portrait male -- Frick, Jacob -- Bust

Occupation -- Other -- Businessman

Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio, 546 East Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio 44691 Accession Number: 1960.1297.001

Gift of Taylor, Lula Frick, Mrs., 1950.

Born Dec. 17, 1834 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and died Nov. 7, 1901 in Wooster, Ohio. The son of Daniel and Catherine Miller Frick. On Nov. 6, 1856, he married his first wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Shelly Frick, the daughter of Jacob Shelly, and widow of his cousin. In 1887, he married his second wife, Sara E. Rutter. He was a businessman who donated the "Soldier's monument" on Public Square. He also built the Frick Building.

Jacob Frick (1834-1901), prominent Wooster businessman, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He came to Wayne county in April, 1859, first locating in Smithville, and embarking in the dry goods trade. In this enterprise he persisted for a year, when he embraced the business of a grain merchant. He first began the purchase of grain at what is known as the "Summit," northeast of Wooster, but desiring a point where conveniences would be more ample he moved to Wooster in the spring of 1865, where he engaged in the grain and milling business into the 1880s. After which he and partners bought the Wayne County National Bank in which he was named president. He bought the Iron Block building next to the Courthouse on West Liberty Street and many other real estate holdings during his lifetime in Wooster.

Wayne County Historical Society, 1978, 1980, 1988, 2018

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