Atchison County Biographies
E. W. Howe's Historical Edition of the Atchison Daily Globe
These biographies were originally published in 1896 in the Atchison Daily Globe, written by the editor and publisher, E. W. Howe. In 1916 the biographies were reproduced in Sheffield Ingall's "History of Atchison County, Kansas," with a few updates such as death information.
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GEORGE W. GLICK.
George W. Glick, the ninth governor of Kansas, for a number of years
United States pension agent for the district comprising Kansas, Missouri,
Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, came to Atchison in
June, 1859, from Fremont, Ohio, where he studied law in the office of
Rutherford B. Hayes, who afterwards became President of the United States. Mr.
Glick came to Atchison on the steamer "Wm. H. Russell," named for and
largely owned by William H. Russell, senior member of the celebrated
freighting firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell. Mr. Glick was born in Fairfield
county, Ohio, July 4, 1829, on a farm, and when four years old removed with
his father's family to within a mile and a half of Fremont, where he remained
until he came to Atchison. He first went to school in the country, near
Fremont, where he afterwards taught when he was nineteen. Later he attended
a Dioclesion school at Fremont, founded by Dr. Dio Lewis, who afterwards
became famous and whose name then was Dioclesia Lewis. Later he attended
Central College, Ohio, but did not graduate. In 1849 he began the study of
law in the office of Bucklin & Hayes, in Fremont, as a result of getting his
feet in a threshing machine. It was supposed that he would never be fit
for farm work again, but he afterwards recovered. Two years later he was
admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, standing an examination with the
graduating class of the Cincinnati law school. He practiced eight years in Fremont
before coming to Atchison, building up a good business, in spite of the fact
that he always went out to the farm in haying time and harvested and helped
his father. In January, following his arrival in Atchison, he formed a
partnership with A. G. Otis, which continued as long as he practiced law. The
firm of Otis & Glick was the strongest in Atchison, as long as it lasted, and
B. P. Waggener was a student in their office. In 1872 Mr. Glick became a
town farmer, operating a farm of 640 acres four miles west of Atchison,
making a specialty of Short Horn cattle, paying as high as $1,000 for several
single animals. He served nine terms in the Kansas legislature, and was once
county commissioner, and once county auditor of Atchison county,while
auditor of Atchison county, in 1882, he was elected governor, by 9,000
plurality, over Jim P. St. John, who had been elected two years before by about
55.000. In 1884 he was re-nominated as governor by the Democrats, but was
defeated by John A. Martin. He first received the nomination for governor
nine years after coming to Kansas, but was defeated by the Republicans. He
was appointed pension agent in 1885, and again in 1893. He was a Mason,
and was one of the original organizers of the Knight Templars and Royal
Arch Masons, in Atchison. He was the first president of the Atchison-Nebraska road,
having built it to the county line, in connection with Brown and
Bier. Governor Glick sold his farm near Shannon a number of years ago,
and during the latter part of his life was inactive in business and professional
affairs. He died on the thirteenth day of April, 1911.
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