"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
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WALTER D. GULICK. Though beginning
in business with a very small capital, Mr.
Gulick has succeeded in acquiring prosperity and a position among the foremost citizens
of Washington, where he is engaged as a lumber
merchant and wholesale grain dealer. Not far
from his lumber yard, on Belvidere avenue,
stands his elegent residence, completed a few
years ago at a cost of $6,000, and standing on a
slight eminence that commands a fine view of the
town and country. The house is surrounded by
a large lawn, adorned with shrubs and trees,
while in the rear is a substantial modern stable.
Near Morristown, in Morris County, N. J., the
subject of this sketch was born in 1861. His
father, Ezra P. Gulick, a native of Warren
County, was for years the proprietor of a mill and
farm situated near Hackettstown, Warren
County, but is now living retired from business.
At the outbreak of the late war he joined the
Union forces and remained in the service for nine
months, when he was honorably discharged.
Politically he has always been a Democrat. He
has held almost all of the township offices and has
been very prominent in local affairs. Fraternally
he is a Mason. He is one of the leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
serves as superintendent of the Sunday-school.
At this writing he resides at Vienna, Warren
County. His father, Derrick Gulick, was a life-long and highly respected resident of this county.
The mother of our subject was Clara Force, a
native of Hunterdon County and the daughter of
Thomas Force, a well-to-do farmer. She had
but two children, Walter D. and Annie, wife of
Simon A. Ayers, a farmer residing near Hackettstown. The early years of our subject's life were
spent at his father's home and in the mill. He
attended the public school at Hackettstown and
the Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown. At the time of attaining his majority, in
1882, he embarked in the general mercantile
business at Vienna, where he continued for eight
years. During four years of this time, under the
first administration of President Cleveland, he
was postmaster at Vienna. Selling out in 1889,
he came to Washington and purchased from L.
G. Salmon one of the oldest lumber yards in the
city and here he has since remained. That he
has been successful is evinced by his large yard
and extensive business. Within his yard may be
found all kinds of lumber, as well as mason's materials, lime, cement, sash, doors, etc. In addition to his lumber trade he has a large wholesale
grain business, in which he gives employment to
a number of hands.
In 1885 Mr. Gulick married Miss Estella Hay,
daughter of Isaac Hay, a farmer of Sarepta,
Warren County. Two children were born of
their union, Jennie and Charles L. As a Democrat Mr. Gulick has taken an active part in local
affairs, but has never sought office. While in
Vienna he served as town clerk, as well as postmaster. Fraternally he is connected with the
Odd Fellows, and in religious belief is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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