The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 581

ALBERT F. BICK.

Albert F. Bick, engaged in the plumbing business in Toppenish, is one of the
successful citizens that Wisconsin has furnished to the Yakima valley. He was
born in the Badger state on the 25th of August, 1868. His parents, John Henry
and Amelia (Schumacher) Bick, removed from Wisconsin to Seward county,
Nebraska, in 1869, when their son was less than a year old. There the father
took up government land upon which not a furrow had been turned nor an
improvement made and with characteristic energy he began the development of the
property, devoting his remaining days to farming upon that place. He was a
veteran of the Civil war, having served throughout the period of conflict with
the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry. Both he and his wife died in Nebraska.

The boyhood and youth of Albert F. Bick were spent in the usual manner of the
farmbred boy who divides his time between the acquirement of a public school
education, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. He
continued to carry on farming until he reached the age of twenty-five years,
when, thinking to find other pursuits more congenial, he left home and went to
Omaha, Nebraska, where he vas employed along various lines. Subsequently he took
up his abode in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he established a hardware
store and tinshop, carrying on business at that point for ten years. In 1910 he
removed to Toppenish where he entered the employ of the Richey & Gilbert
Company, with which he continued until April, 1917, when he opened a tinshop of
his own. Since then he has developed his interests and now has a fine sheet
metal and plumbing business, being accorded a liberal patronage by reason of his
thorough and excellent workmanship.

On the 17th of October, 1903, Mr. Bick was married to Miss Marguerite
O'Connell, of Seward, Nebraska, and they are now the parents of two sons,
Albert F. and Walter H. Mr. Bick is a republican in politics where national
questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent
ballot. He has had some Alaskan experience, for he was in the northwest in 1912
and 1913. He may truly be called a self-made man and as the architect of his own
fortunes has builded wisely and well. A commendable ambition has prompted him to
put forth his best efforts and the results achieved have been very satisfactory.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.