My Genealogy Hound

JAMES DICK, brick manufacturer, Tarentum, is a son of David and Letitia Dick, and was born in Allegheny City, in 1821. His parents were natives of Ireland, and were married in Allegheny City, where they both died. Their surviving children are Nancy (now Mrs. Thomas Brown, of East Liberty, Pa.), Mary (now Mrs. Thomas Bartley, of Allegheny) and James. Our subject, when eighteen years of age, left the paternal roof and began life for himself. In 1844 he married Miss Nancy Leslie, of West Deer township, and they began their married life in Allegheny, where he was engaged in the manufacture of brick. Removing subsequently to West Deer township, they there remained fourteen years, and then returned to Allegheny. In 1872 they removed to Tarentum, his present residence and place of business, where he is now manufacturing brick. Their children are Letitia, now Mrs. Hugh Cargo, of Warren county, Pa.; James L., now in Kansas; William, in Tarentum; David, a tinner in Charleston, W. Va.; Mary, now Mrs. Robert Caldwell, of Tarentum; John, of Scottdale, Westmoreland county, Pa., and Margaret L., now Mrs. Charles Lardin, of Tarentum. The mother died in 1886.