Reno County Biographies
"The History of Reno County, Vol. 2," Sheridan Ploughe, 1917
JAMES LEE DICK.
James Lee Dick, prominently identified with the great Carey industries
at Hutchinson, this county, and one of the most enterprising and energetic
of the younger business men of that city, is a native of Iowa, born in Lucas
county, that state, August 19, 1880, son of Samuel and Delia Ann (Strong)
Dick, who are now living, comfortably retired, at Los Angeles, California.
Samuel Dick was a merchant in Iowa and in 1881 came to Kansas and
located at McPherson, where he was engaged in the mercantile business
until 1908, in which year he retired from business and moved to Los
Angeles, where he and his wife are now living.
James L. Dick was but a babe in arms when his parents came to
Kansas in 1881 and all his active life therefore has been spent in this state.
Upon completing the course in the public schools at McPherson he entered
Northwestern University, which he attended for three years. During his
university course, Mr. Dick was active in the affairs of the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity and took honors in the mile run in track work for the
varsity. In 1901 he went to Hutchinson, in the employ of the Guymon-
Petro Wholesale Grocery Company, with which concern he remained for
eighteen months, at the end of which time he transferred his services to the
Carey interests and has been associated with the same ever since, having in
that time became one of the most active factors in the development of the
Carey industries, holding the position of secretary of the Carey Salt
Company, treasurer of the Hutchinson Salt Company, secretary of the Carey
Ice and Cold Storage Company and secretary of the Hutchinson Interurban
Railway Company.
On May 7, 1907, James L. Dick was united in marriage to Cara Jeanne
Handy, who was born in Hutchinson, daughter of Edward S. and Minnie
A. (Hale) Handy, the former of whom, now deceased, was one of the
pioneers of Reno county, former county clerk and for years prominently
connected with the real-estate interests of Hutchinson. Mrs. Handy, who is
still living, is the daughter of Marshall Hale, one of the earliest pioneers of
this county, all of which is set out in a memorial sketch of the late Edward
S. Handy, presented elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Dick have a
very pleasant home at 428 First avenue, East, and take an interested part in
the various social and cultural activities of their home town. Mr. Dick is a
Mason, a member of the Hutchinson Country Club and a member of the
United Commercial Travelers' Association, in the affairs of all of which
organizations he takes a warm interest.
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