Private, Company B, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Discharged by General Order No. 83 on July 11, 1865 at Cumberland, Maryland.
Filed for a pension on September 30, 1881, application number 430,331, certificate number 960,755 from Iowa. Wife Ellen D. Rick filed for a widow's pension on April 21, 1902, application number 761,198, certificate number 547,964 from Iowa.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Hugh G. Rick
One of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Hugh G. Rick, a prominent contractor and builder, who has met with excellent success during his long residence here, covering over a quarter of a century. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1845, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gilliland) Rick, also natives of the Keystone state, where they spent their entire lives. The former was of German, the latter of Scotch descent. The father was also born in Crawford County, and in early life learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for some years, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1878, when about seventy years of age. Of his seven children one son died in early childhood and a daughter died at the age of twelve years. Those living are James, a farmer of Ohio; Hugh G., the subject of this sketch; George B., who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Uriah, a farmer of Ohio; and Ellen, wife of Henry Oates, a farmer of Pennsylvania. The children all attended the public schools of Pennsylvania, but in their younger days schools were far apart and teachers were scarce.
By the reading of good and instructive books since leaving school Hugh G. Rick has practically educated himself and has become a well-informed man. He grew to manhood on the old homestead and with his father learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked until the country became involved in civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, when but eighteen years of age, and remained in the service until the cessation of hostilities, taking part in over eighty regular engagements and skirmishes. These included some very important battles, such as the engagements in the Shenandoah valley, the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and the siege of Petersburg. Mr. Rick had a horse shot from under him in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the Shenandoah valley had a second horse shot and was knocked over by the force of a shell passing him. After three years of arduous and faithful service he was discharged in July, 1865, and returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year, his time and energies being devoted to learning the carpenter's trade.
Mr. Rick then followed that pursuit in Wisconsin and Michigan, and subsequently spent seven years in Davenport, Iowa. Having a natural tendency for the trade, he soon became a very proficient workman and for five years engaged in contracting and building on his own account in Davenport, erecting many houses in that city. In 1875, seeing a good opening for his trade in Cedar Rapids, he located here, and worked for eighteen months for the T. M. Sinclair Packing Company. Since then he has engaged in contracting and building, and has been very busy, having all the work he can attend to. His specialty is residences, and he keeps a large force of carpenters, masons and painters all the time, building from fifteen to thirty houses each year and giving employment to about fifty men. He has continued his work to the city, and is one of the best known and most successful of its contractors. On coming to Cedar Rapids it had a population of only six thousand, and he has watched with pride and interest its growth until the city now contains twenty-seven thousand inhabitants.
While at Edgerton, Wisconsin, Mr. Rick was married in 1868 to Miss Ellen O. Place, who was born in Vermont, but was reared and educated near Chicago, and was then living in the Badger state. They have two sons: Lillian, a graduate of the Cedar Rapids public schools, is now in partnership with his father and resides in Kenwood. He is married and has four children, Hugh, John, Alfred and Ellen; William E., a carpenter working with his father is married and has two children, Ray and Glenn. Both learned their trade with their father and have since been with him. He has a pleasant home at 1211 Third avenue, which he built in 1900.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Rick has affiliated with the Republican party, and though he has been an active worker for its interests he has never cared for political preferment. Fraternally he is a member of the Commercial Club of Cedar Rapids and the Odd Fellows Lodge, No 141, the Encampment, Patriarchs Militant, and Rebekahs (I.O.O.F.), and of the T.Z. Cook Post, G.A.R.; and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Third Presbyterian church. As a business man he is a true type of western progress and enterprise, and his success is due to his own well-directed and energetic efforts. His integrity stands as an unquestioned fact in his history - endowed by nature with a sound judgment and an accurate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to business so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has even been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by a fairness of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.
Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901.
Filed for a pension on September 30, 1881, application number 430,331, certificate number 960,755 from Iowa. Wife Ellen D. Rick filed for a widow's pension on April 21, 1902, application number 761,198, certificate number 547,964 from Iowa.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Hugh G. Rick
One of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Hugh G. Rick, a prominent contractor and builder, who has met with excellent success during his long residence here, covering over a quarter of a century. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1845, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gilliland) Rick, also natives of the Keystone state, where they spent their entire lives. The former was of German, the latter of Scotch descent. The father was also born in Crawford County, and in early life learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for some years, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1878, when about seventy years of age. Of his seven children one son died in early childhood and a daughter died at the age of twelve years. Those living are James, a farmer of Ohio; Hugh G., the subject of this sketch; George B., who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Uriah, a farmer of Ohio; and Ellen, wife of Henry Oates, a farmer of Pennsylvania. The children all attended the public schools of Pennsylvania, but in their younger days schools were far apart and teachers were scarce.
By the reading of good and instructive books since leaving school Hugh G. Rick has practically educated himself and has become a well-informed man. He grew to manhood on the old homestead and with his father learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked until the country became involved in civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, when but eighteen years of age, and remained in the service until the cessation of hostilities, taking part in over eighty regular engagements and skirmishes. These included some very important battles, such as the engagements in the Shenandoah valley, the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and the siege of Petersburg. Mr. Rick had a horse shot from under him in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the Shenandoah valley had a second horse shot and was knocked over by the force of a shell passing him. After three years of arduous and faithful service he was discharged in July, 1865, and returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year, his time and energies being devoted to learning the carpenter's trade.
Mr. Rick then followed that pursuit in Wisconsin and Michigan, and subsequently spent seven years in Davenport, Iowa. Having a natural tendency for the trade, he soon became a very proficient workman and for five years engaged in contracting and building on his own account in Davenport, erecting many houses in that city. In 1875, seeing a good opening for his trade in Cedar Rapids, he located here, and worked for eighteen months for the T. M. Sinclair Packing Company. Since then he has engaged in contracting and building, and has been very busy, having all the work he can attend to. His specialty is residences, and he keeps a large force of carpenters, masons and painters all the time, building from fifteen to thirty houses each year and giving employment to about fifty men. He has continued his work to the city, and is one of the best known and most successful of its contractors. On coming to Cedar Rapids it had a population of only six thousand, and he has watched with pride and interest its growth until the city now contains twenty-seven thousand inhabitants.
While at Edgerton, Wisconsin, Mr. Rick was married in 1868 to Miss Ellen O. Place, who was born in Vermont, but was reared and educated near Chicago, and was then living in the Badger state. They have two sons: Lillian, a graduate of the Cedar Rapids public schools, is now in partnership with his father and resides in Kenwood. He is married and has four children, Hugh, John, Alfred and Ellen; William E., a carpenter working with his father is married and has two children, Ray and Glenn. Both learned their trade with their father and have since been with him. He has a pleasant home at 1211 Third avenue, which he built in 1900.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Rick has affiliated with the Republican party, and though he has been an active worker for its interests he has never cared for political preferment. Fraternally he is a member of the Commercial Club of Cedar Rapids and the Odd Fellows Lodge, No 141, the Encampment, Patriarchs Militant, and Rebekahs (I.O.O.F.), and of the T.Z. Cook Post, G.A.R.; and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Third Presbyterian church. As a business man he is a true type of western progress and enterprise, and his success is due to his own well-directed and energetic efforts. His integrity stands as an unquestioned fact in his history - endowed by nature with a sound judgment and an accurate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to business so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has even been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by a fairness of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.
Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901.
Private, Company B, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Discharged by General Order No. 83 on July 11, 1865 at Cumberland, Maryland.
Filed for a pension on September 30, 1881, application number 430,331, certificate number 960,755 from Iowa. Wife Ellen D. Rick filed for a widow's pension on April 21, 1902, application number 761,198, certificate number 547,964 from Iowa.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Hugh G. Rick
One of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Hugh G. Rick, a prominent contractor and builder, who has met with excellent success during his long residence here, covering over a quarter of a century. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1845, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gilliland) Rick, also natives of the Keystone state, where they spent their entire lives. The former was of German, the latter of Scotch descent. The father was also born in Crawford County, and in early life learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for some years, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1878, when about seventy years of age. Of his seven children one son died in early childhood and a daughter died at the age of twelve years. Those living are James, a farmer of Ohio; Hugh G., the subject of this sketch; George B., who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Uriah, a farmer of Ohio; and Ellen, wife of Henry Oates, a farmer of Pennsylvania. The children all attended the public schools of Pennsylvania, but in their younger days schools were far apart and teachers were scarce.
By the reading of good and instructive books since leaving school Hugh G. Rick has practically educated himself and has become a well-informed man. He grew to manhood on the old homestead and with his father learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked until the country became involved in civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, when but eighteen years of age, and remained in the service until the cessation of hostilities, taking part in over eighty regular engagements and skirmishes. These included some very important battles, such as the engagements in the Shenandoah valley, the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and the siege of Petersburg. Mr. Rick had a horse shot from under him in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the Shenandoah valley had a second horse shot and was knocked over by the force of a shell passing him. After three years of arduous and faithful service he was discharged in July, 1865, and returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year, his time and energies being devoted to learning the carpenter's trade.
Mr. Rick then followed that pursuit in Wisconsin and Michigan, and subsequently spent seven years in Davenport, Iowa. Having a natural tendency for the trade, he soon became a very proficient workman and for five years engaged in contracting and building on his own account in Davenport, erecting many houses in that city. In 1875, seeing a good opening for his trade in Cedar Rapids, he located here, and worked for eighteen months for the T. M. Sinclair Packing Company. Since then he has engaged in contracting and building, and has been very busy, having all the work he can attend to. His specialty is residences, and he keeps a large force of carpenters, masons and painters all the time, building from fifteen to thirty houses each year and giving employment to about fifty men. He has continued his work to the city, and is one of the best known and most successful of its contractors. On coming to Cedar Rapids it had a population of only six thousand, and he has watched with pride and interest its growth until the city now contains twenty-seven thousand inhabitants.
While at Edgerton, Wisconsin, Mr. Rick was married in 1868 to Miss Ellen O. Place, who was born in Vermont, but was reared and educated near Chicago, and was then living in the Badger state. They have two sons: Lillian, a graduate of the Cedar Rapids public schools, is now in partnership with his father and resides in Kenwood. He is married and has four children, Hugh, John, Alfred and Ellen; William E., a carpenter working with his father is married and has two children, Ray and Glenn. Both learned their trade with their father and have since been with him. He has a pleasant home at 1211 Third avenue, which he built in 1900.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Rick has affiliated with the Republican party, and though he has been an active worker for its interests he has never cared for political preferment. Fraternally he is a member of the Commercial Club of Cedar Rapids and the Odd Fellows Lodge, No 141, the Encampment, Patriarchs Militant, and Rebekahs (I.O.O.F.), and of the T.Z. Cook Post, G.A.R.; and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Third Presbyterian church. As a business man he is a true type of western progress and enterprise, and his success is due to his own well-directed and energetic efforts. His integrity stands as an unquestioned fact in his history - endowed by nature with a sound judgment and an accurate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to business so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has even been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by a fairness of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.
Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901.
Filed for a pension on September 30, 1881, application number 430,331, certificate number 960,755 from Iowa. Wife Ellen D. Rick filed for a widow's pension on April 21, 1902, application number 761,198, certificate number 547,964 from Iowa.
See 18th PA Cav for a virtual cemetery of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Hugh G. Rick
One of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Hugh G. Rick, a prominent contractor and builder, who has met with excellent success during his long residence here, covering over a quarter of a century. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1845, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gilliland) Rick, also natives of the Keystone state, where they spent their entire lives. The former was of German, the latter of Scotch descent. The father was also born in Crawford County, and in early life learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for some years, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1878, when about seventy years of age. Of his seven children one son died in early childhood and a daughter died at the age of twelve years. Those living are James, a farmer of Ohio; Hugh G., the subject of this sketch; George B., who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Uriah, a farmer of Ohio; and Ellen, wife of Henry Oates, a farmer of Pennsylvania. The children all attended the public schools of Pennsylvania, but in their younger days schools were far apart and teachers were scarce.
By the reading of good and instructive books since leaving school Hugh G. Rick has practically educated himself and has become a well-informed man. He grew to manhood on the old homestead and with his father learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked until the country became involved in civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, when but eighteen years of age, and remained in the service until the cessation of hostilities, taking part in over eighty regular engagements and skirmishes. These included some very important battles, such as the engagements in the Shenandoah valley, the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and the siege of Petersburg. Mr. Rick had a horse shot from under him in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the Shenandoah valley had a second horse shot and was knocked over by the force of a shell passing him. After three years of arduous and faithful service he was discharged in July, 1865, and returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year, his time and energies being devoted to learning the carpenter's trade.
Mr. Rick then followed that pursuit in Wisconsin and Michigan, and subsequently spent seven years in Davenport, Iowa. Having a natural tendency for the trade, he soon became a very proficient workman and for five years engaged in contracting and building on his own account in Davenport, erecting many houses in that city. In 1875, seeing a good opening for his trade in Cedar Rapids, he located here, and worked for eighteen months for the T. M. Sinclair Packing Company. Since then he has engaged in contracting and building, and has been very busy, having all the work he can attend to. His specialty is residences, and he keeps a large force of carpenters, masons and painters all the time, building from fifteen to thirty houses each year and giving employment to about fifty men. He has continued his work to the city, and is one of the best known and most successful of its contractors. On coming to Cedar Rapids it had a population of only six thousand, and he has watched with pride and interest its growth until the city now contains twenty-seven thousand inhabitants.
While at Edgerton, Wisconsin, Mr. Rick was married in 1868 to Miss Ellen O. Place, who was born in Vermont, but was reared and educated near Chicago, and was then living in the Badger state. They have two sons: Lillian, a graduate of the Cedar Rapids public schools, is now in partnership with his father and resides in Kenwood. He is married and has four children, Hugh, John, Alfred and Ellen; William E., a carpenter working with his father is married and has two children, Ray and Glenn. Both learned their trade with their father and have since been with him. He has a pleasant home at 1211 Third avenue, which he built in 1900.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Rick has affiliated with the Republican party, and though he has been an active worker for its interests he has never cared for political preferment. Fraternally he is a member of the Commercial Club of Cedar Rapids and the Odd Fellows Lodge, No 141, the Encampment, Patriarchs Militant, and Rebekahs (I.O.O.F.), and of the T.Z. Cook Post, G.A.R.; and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Third Presbyterian church. As a business man he is a true type of western progress and enterprise, and his success is due to his own well-directed and energetic efforts. His integrity stands as an unquestioned fact in his history - endowed by nature with a sound judgment and an accurate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to business so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has even been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by a fairness of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.
Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901.
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