Johan Peter MOELICH

   Another name for Johan was Johann Peter MÖLICH.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: likely match from Germany, 1728, America. [List 6 A, B] Mortonhouse
Captain: John Coultas
From: Rotterdam
By Way of: Deal
Arrival: Philadelphia, 23 Aug 1728

Eighty Palatines, who with their families, make about two hundred persons. List dated 15 Jun 1728, apparently the date the ship was at Deal.

Johann Peter Mölich [Variations Melch]

• Biography. The Melicks of Oldwick - Tewksbury's first family of farming
by Maude Kenyon
as printed in General Store magazine, Autumn 2001
How many of us can say we are tenth generation Americans, and that we live in the same town and farm the same land that our ancestors settled nearly three hundred years ago? The children of George and Norma Melick can, and they're rightfully proud of it.
At a time when high land prices, low profits, drought and crop devastation by deer have led so many farmers to sell their land to developers, George and his family consistently turn profits. What's their secret? They have always kept up with the times, and still do.
You've no doubt seen their name spelled many different ways, but no matter how you spell it, it is a name that is a part of local history. According to George, "all of my ancestors in this country were born, baptized, married, and buried within five miles of Oldwick."
His first direct ancestor to reside in this country was Johan Peter Moelich, who arrived with his brothers Johannes and Gottfried sometime between 1725 and 1735 and settled in Hunterdon County. The son of Wilhelm Moelich, Johan and his brothers came to America with the German Palatines - German Protestants who were persecuted because of their religious beliefs. One group fled to Holland. Well treated there, they decided to go to the Dutch settlement in the new world, New Amsterdam (now New York City). Their ship foundered near Philadelphia and they set out for New Amsterdam on foot. When they saw the rolling hills of Bedminster and Tewksbury, many decided to settle. The Moelich brothers were among them.
The boys followed their father's way and were farmers and tanners. Gottfried went on to settle in Warren County. Johannes, who arrived here with wife Mariah, and children Aaron, Andrew, Fanny, and Maria Catherine had a tannery north of Far Hills. By 1751 he had saved enough to buy 367 acres of forest at $6.45 an acre. The property, which stretched from the North Branch of the Raritan River to Peapack Brook, included all of what was known as Lesser Crossroads, today Bedminster Village.
Many years later in 1889, descendent Andrew Mellick, Jr., in his book, The Story of an Old Farm, wrote that while building their stone house in 1752, "Mariah carried mortar balanced on her head to the masons at work on the walls." And he added, "137 years later the mortar is as solid and impervious as the stones between which it lies. They used lime in the mortar and, even today, in tearing down old stonework, the stones are apt to break before the mortar." The house on Old Dutch Road in Bedminster Township became well known through the book.
In 1786, Johannes Moelich's son, Aaron, built the Bedminster Tavern, now Willie's Taverne, for his son John, who had recently returned from serving in the Revolutionary War. The tavern remained in the family for more than a century, and was sold in 1889 to Willie Howard. Local Celebrities made it their gathering place, and even held cockfights there.
The name acquired three different spellings. In those days the people in charge of registering land titles and other legal documents spelled names as they sounded. The Bedminster branch became Mellick, the Tewksbury branch Melick, and a few spelled it Malick. George Melick quips, "Drew Mellick and his son Roger live in Tewksbury and are descendants of Johannes. There's a standing joke in the Melick family that the Mellicks had enough money to afford 2 'l's' in their name."
Johan Peter's son, Tunis Melick, had a mill in Whitehouse and later moved to New Germantown (now Oldwick), where he built a mill east of town. He served as Hunterdon County Freeholder for eighteen years from 1776 to 1794. "Tunis' son, Peter Melick, had five sons," George explains. "John V. Melick is one of them. He, too, had five sons including my ancestor, John V. Melick, Jr., who worked for farmer John Craig on Oldwick's King Street. He later married Craig's only child, Margaretta. When Mr. Craig died, the young couple inherited the farm. They had a daughter and two sons, including Walter, my grandfather.
After his father died, Walter bought out his brother and sister and became owner of family farm of 165 acres. He married Mary Van Sickle of Lebanon and had three sons, and served as Republican Committeeman of Tewksbury Township.
One of his sons was George B. Melick, George's father, who married Florence Rinehart. In 1938 they bought the present family home, and later the adjoining Martens farm. In the family tradition of community service, George, Sr. served as a volunteer fireman with the Oldwick Fire Company, and was president when he died. He was also a member of the Tewksbury Township School Board and of the first North Hunterdon Regional High School Board of Education.
A Melick relative was the engineer for the fabled, but ill-fated Rockaway Valley Railroad. Known locally as the "Rock-a-bye Baby" because of rickety tracks that rocked the train as it made its way from Whitehouse Station to Morristown, the line was built to carry peaches from local orchards to the marketplace. The company was formed in 1849, but the railroad wasn't built until 1887.
Fate was not kind to the fledgling railroad, or to the peach growers. In 1900 San Jose Scale hit the area, and it devastated the peach drop. Although a spray had been developed to protect the peaches, it was very expensive. Walter Melick had too many acres of peaches to take a chance. He sprayed, whereas those who didn't lost their orchards.
After the railroad went bankrupt in 1913, George recalls, "Peach auctions were held on the side porch of the Tewksbury Inn. Farmers would line up their wagonloads of fruit along King Street. As each wagonload was sold, the next farmer would pull up. The auction went on until the early 1930's". Having grown up on the farm, George was destined to follow in the family farming tradition. Speaking of his father, he recalls, "he wanted me, an only child, to go to college, but I wanted to be a farmer right away. He died a month after I graduated from high school in 1954. He had given me his pocket watch and penknife, symbols of his passing on of the farm to me."
Though his father had added chickens following the peach blight, "I saw no future in chickens and eggs, so gradually I got out of that business and planted more fruit trees." George recalls in 1963, while delivering eggs, "I met Norma Pedersen of South Plainfield, who was visiting a fellow teacher in Plainfield. Two years later we were married." Inside Norma's wedding ring is inscribed, WCM to MLVS, June 3, 1894. It was the ring worm by George''s grandmother, Mary Van Sickle, when she married Walter Melick.
George served eighteen years on the Tewksbury Township Committee, and was mayor five times. He is now in his 24th year as a Hunterdon County Freeholder. A fiscal conservative, he doesn't like spending taxpayer money. In one campaign he was dubbed "Melick the Miserly Maverick", but that's why he has been elected so many times.
George and Norma's three children, Peter, John, and Rebecca, are all involved in the family farm. According to George, " I always had someone to help me. My mother deeded me the farm. Norma has worked hard in the business all these years. Now our three kids are part of the business. I can't say I put them through college. They each worked for me and earned their own way."
Peter, now 34, began life without a name - his birth certificated listed him as "unnamed". There were too many family names to choose from, so the late township historian and close friend, Norman Wittwer, came over and suggested they "name him for Peter Melick." And they did. "I graduated from Albright College with degrees in business and political science," Peter says, and laughs as he adds, "I really use those five years of Latin all the time as a farmer." He and his wife, Denise, were married June 11, 1999. "I used a recycled engagement ring," he says. "My grandfather gave it to my grandmother." Their son, William Blackstone Melick, was born January 9, 2001.
In addition to farming, the children of George and Norma Melick are active in their communities. Peter has served as chief of the Oldwick Fire Company for three years. He is also active with the Agricultural Development Board of Hunterdon County and the County Board of Agriculture, and is past president of the New Jersey Horticultural Society.
John, 30, was named for John V. Melick. He graduated from Bucknell with a degree in Civil Engineering, and is a licensed professional engineer. He worked full-time for an engineering firm after college, but farming was in his blood. "Now I work part-time as an engineer in the off-season," he says. "When crops are ripe, I work seven days a week as a farmer." He is also starting his second term as president of the Oldwick Fire Company.
After graduating from Fordham University, Rebecca, 32 took a job with AT&T and went on to earn her MBA at NYU's Stern School of Business. Rebecca takes her vacation on Fridays during the fall, working at the Oldwick stand three days a week.
George says, "We're a family corporation. Each has an equal vote. When someone wants to spend money, we all vote on it."
Leroy Sutton farmed and also sold produce from George's farm from his truck at the Route 512 and 517 intersection. At his suggestion, George bought the 30- acre parcel and put up an impressive looking stand, which he leases out.
George's next purchase was unplanned. "I never read the real estate ads," he says. "One day something made me read them. I saw an ad for 200 acres on Route 513 in Lebanon Township. The back part was a limestone quarry. I looked and realized it would make a good orchard, so we bought it.
"We planted dwarf apple and peach trees. Just as the first peach crop was in bud, we had a freeze. We realized that that section was low. Peter did some research and came up with the idea of a wind machine to blow away the frost. It protects about ten acres of lowland."
The Melicks know to change with the times. George started with large trees and then went to semi-dwarf. Now they grow dwarf trees. They're better for pick-your-own customers.
According to Peter, "The big trees take fifteen years to get a full crop. The dwarfs bear in three or four years and are in full production in five. We replanted all the time, updating varieties and strains as tastes change. The worst thing for a farmer is if he and his trees grow old together."
Three years ago the Melicks built a farm market on Route 523 in Oldwick. For years they had sold from the garage behind their home. They also have the stand on Route 513 in Lebanon Township. Rebecca started them growing vegetables when she planted ten tomato plants. Today the Melicks grow four acres of tomatoes and twenty-five acres of sweet corn, as well as pumpkins, summer and winter squash, string beans, cucumbers, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower and cantaloupes. The farm has forty acres of apples, forty acres of peaches, two acres of cherries, pears, plums, nectarines, and Asian pears.
Norma tells of their latest marketing project. "we sell at tailgate markets in Madison, Milburn, and Hoboken. With the two farm markets and the tailgate markets we are stretched thin. We lean on friends, neighbors, and family."
Deer are a serious problem for farmers. While fruit and vegetables are cash crops, they cost more to grow. George tells us, "We put in four miles of eight-foot high tensile fencing to protect all three locations. When three- quarters of it was up, the state offered free fencing to farmers if they would provide poles and labor."
According to Peter, "We take part in IPM - Integrated Pest Management. People don't want heavy spraying and neither do we. IPM advises us what to spray, where, and how much. We do only what's necessary. Their scouts check it out weekly and leave us notes on how we're doing. Through IPM and other agricultural services we are alerted at once about problems.
"Through e-mail we were warned about plum pox on peaches in Adams County, Pennsylvania. This is the first it's been found in this continent. There's no preventative or cure. Infected trees must be destroyed. They're working hard to stop it."
Back in 1962, Leroy Sutton told George of complaints about local cider, and suggested he buy a cider press. Today the cider mill in the big barn on King Street, behind the Tewksbury Inn, also offers pick-your-own apples. Through their own stands and markets, they sell 70,000 gallons of cider each year.
In recent years there have been reports of e-coli in unpasteurized cider. The heating of pasteurizing changes the flavor, and not for the better. So they invested in a state of the art ultra-violet light system that doesn't change the flavor. "There are very few cider mills left in New Jersey," says George. "The new system cost a lot but we are committed to remain in cider." Another advantage to staying in cider, John adds, is that "when buyers come for cider, they usually also buy apples, pumpkins, gourds, and Jack-Be-Littles, those tiny little pumpkins."
For ten generations the Melicks have kept up with the times and understood what people wanted. Norma and George are rightfully proud of their children. Not only are Peter, John, and Rebecca sticking with farming, but they are using modern technology to stay ahead. "My early ancestors were tanning hides," says George, "with no e-mail for them to learn of new methods. Today we get faxes at eleven at night and satellite forecasts about possible problems."
Nearly three hundred years have passed since Johan Peter Moelich first set foot in Tewksbury. Remarkably nine generation of Melicks later, in spite of so many changes in the world around them, some things are still pretty much the same. Come sunrise, it's business as usual out on the farm.

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• Biography: How Jersey Am I? By Jennifer Melick, Jan 2006, NJ. I am told that the family\emdash Johann Peter and his brothers Johannes and Gottfried\emdash came to America from Germany in the 1700s. According to one family legend, one of these brothers left the little town of Bendorf-am-Rhein "two steps ahead of the law," turning up some years later as a New Jersey farmer. A more reliable source is The Story of an Old Farm, written in 1889 by Andrew D. Mellick, who took up writing after becoming crippled in a riding accident. In his account, the Moelichs (as the name was originally spelled), German Palatines, likely left the old country to escape political repression and religious persecution. What is undisputed is that there have been many farmers in the family, and the Protestant faith runs strong in my branch of it: Both my grandfather and my great-great-grandfather married daughters of Methodist ministers. The latter, Thomas H. Jacobus, preached in churches in Belleville, New Providence, Bayonne, Summit, Nutley, and Somerville, before dying in 1895 of a heart attack mid-sermon while preaching in Jersey City.

There seem to be three basic spellings of the name: Melick, Mellick, and Malick. By the late 1800s, Melick had apparently become the most common; George B. Melick of Oldwick has quipped, "There's a standing joke in the Melick family that the Mellicks had enough money to afford two ls in their name." The pronunciation of the family name has been a point of disagreement for as long as I can remember. The first syllable, as pronounced by most of the clan, rhymes with tree, but there are many dissenters. I clearly recall a wedding where two mee-licks were formally announced, followed directly by two meh-licks. Well before I was born, my father got so tired of correcting people that he cold-called twenty strangers to ask how they would pronounce M-E-L-I-C-K. The experiment produced only one correct answer. After that he became a meh-lick.

I am happy to report that, with the help of a magnifying glass, I finally found, on page seventeen, Edwin Melick (1824\endash 1896), my great-great-grandfather and the elusive family-tree connection. But lest you think my roots here go deep, consider the case of a cousin of mine: he actually married a woman whose ancestors are also on that family tree hanging in my living room. Now that's what you call being a New Jersey family.

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• Biography: Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy Pages 516 thru 549: Northumberland County, PA. MALICK. The Malick family, which was one of the earliest families in Northumberland county, having been settled in this region since before or about the period of the Revolution, is of German extraction. The early spelling of the name was Melick, or Mehlig, but it is now found in various forms, Malick, Malich, Mellick, etc. One Jacob Malick, with whose descendants we are concerned in this article, and five brothers came to this country from Germany, four of the brothers, among whom was Jacob, settling along the Susquehanna river in what is now Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, in the region of Sunbury. They were among the pioneers in that section, where their descendants are now very numerous, several branches of the family being well represented. There is record of three brothers, Peter, Henry and another who died soon after his marriage, leaving a widow and one daughter. This does not quite agree, however, with the Federal Census Report of 1790, which records Peter, Henry and a Widow Melich as heads of families in Northumberland county. Peter Melich had one son and six daughters; Henry had one daughter; the widow had two daughters. Among the taxables of Augusta township, in 1788, were David and John Melick. According to one account, the Malicks came to Pennsylvania from New Jersey, settling in the woods in what was then Northumberland (now Columbia) county, at the present location of Lightstreet. At any rate, the pioneer Peter Malick lived there until the time of the Wyoming massacre The family were panic-stricken at the report that the Indians were approaching on the war-path, and the men hastily got the horses together, the women collecting clothing, etc., which they tied to a young mare. The animal took fright at its unusual burden, ran away and was shot by the Indians. Eventually, men, women and children had to make their way on foot to Fort Augusta, at Sunbury, which had been built in 1756, and there the family remained until the immediate danger was over. It appears that Jacob Malick, son of Peter Malick, Jr., obtained his land in that region through the family's escape to the fort for safety. Peter Melick, Sr, made a will, but we have not found it on record at Sunbury. Peter Melick, Jr., of Wyoming township, made his will March 6, 1789; it was probated June 6, 1789. He bequeaths to his wife Mary "Mellick," and to children: son John (double daughter Christiana shall have); son Peter (double of daughter Charity); son Mickel (double of daughter Margaret) son Henry; son David; and daughters Cristana, Charity, Margaret and Elizabeth. Some children died young. One David Malick, born Oct. 4, 1759, died in 1834. His old family Bible is now in the possession of Mrs. William F. Keefer, of Sunbury, a distant relative of the Malicks. The Jacob Malick above mentioned as one of the pioneers in what is now Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, passed the remainder of his life and died there. His son Peter, born in that township, was a well known man of his day and a large land owner, having about five hundred acres. He died in 1871, at the age of seventy-five years, and is buried at a church in Lower Augusta township. His wife, whose maiden name was Reeser, was a native of Northumberland county. They had children as follows: William; John B.; David; Peter; Jeremiah, who died in 1872, at the age of thirty-six years; Samuel; Daniel; Esther, born Aug. 28, 1828, who died in 1909 (she was the wife of Adam Renn and lived in Sunbury); Harriet who married Alexander Zortman; Mary A., who married Jere. Renn, brother of Adam, and settled in Iowa. William Malick, son of Peter, was born in the old home in Lower Augusta township. He became an early contractor and builder in his district beginning that business when he had to do all the work, from the hewing of the timber in the woods to the very completion of the houses and barns he constructed. Many buildings in the neighborhood and in adjoining localities were of his construction. He died in 1888, and is buried at the Stone Church in Lower Augusta township. His wife, Hannah (Heilman); daughter of Daniel Heilman, bore him children as follows: Dr. Hiram died in 1889; Harriet married a Keifer and has children, Peter, Frank, Harry and Jennie; Maria is the widow of Jacob Wolf (they had a son Clement); END OF PAGE 534 Simon P. is mentioned below; William married a Waid (they have Arthur and Melvin). SIMON P. MALICK, a well known general contractor and builder, was born Aug. 1, 1848, in Lower Augusta township, son of William Mahlick. He received his education in the district schools, and when a young man learned the carpenter's trade under his father's instruction, remaining with him until he reached the age of eighteen years. After that be found employment in surrounding towns until he came to Sunbury in 1871, engaging in business for himself. From 1873 to 1878 he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as a carpenter, and he then returned to contracting and building on his own account. Many of the buildings in Sunbury have been erected by him, and he has a mill on Tenth street where he gives employment to from forty to fifty mechanics. He is one of the most prominent citizens of Sunbury, not only as a business man but also in the conduct of public affairs, for he has served as councilman and served as chief burgess of East Sunbury borough. He was one of the organizers and is vice president of the Sunbury Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was also one of the organizers of the Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of which he is still serving as a director. He is a Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religion, belonging to Zion's Church, which he served many years as deacon and elder. Mr. Malick married Julia Bloom, daughter of Jacob and Julia (Bartholomew) Bloom, and they have had, three children: Bessie married Robert Messimer and has three children, Hazel, Julia and Robert W.; Elmer V. is mentioned below; Emma who lives with her parents, is a graduate of the Williamsport Academy, class of 1906. The family occupy a handsome residence on Catawissa avenue, Sunbury. ELMER V. MALICK has passed practically all his life in Sunbury, where he was born April 12, 1871. He received his education there, being s member of the first class which graduated from the high school in East Sunbury, in 1889. That spring be received a license to teach public school from Prof. William Bloom, and he had, his first experience in Ralpho township, this county, at the Pocohontas school. After assisting his father for some time in his planing mill and building operations, he took the civil service examination for letter carrier in Sunbury, in a class of forty-two, and was the second carrier appointed in the borough. He served in that capacity for seven years, until, in 1908, he began his present general mercantile business at No. 256 Catawissa avenue. He opened his store Feb. 17th. Mr. Malick carries a large stock and has had a profitable trade from the start. He is a man of excellent business ability and upright methods, and has succeeded in holding his patronage by honorable dealing. He owns his own home, a large and comfortable residence at No. 303 Catawissa avenue. Socially Mr. Malick belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. On June 19, 1900, Mr. Malick married Clara M. Messimer, daughter of J. T. Messimer, of Sunbury. They have no children. Jacob Messimer, grandfather of Mrs. Malick, was a native of Center township, Perry Co., Pa., was a farmer by occupation, and died when his son John T. was two years old; he is buried in an old graveyard at Bloomfield. He married Margaret Marshall, who died in 1883, at the age of seventy-seven years. They had a family of five children, all deceased; Robert, Wilson, James, Maggie and John T. John T. Messimer, son of Jacob, was born in November, 1846, and died in 1902. He was a shoemaker by trade, but for the last thirty years of his life was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company as gang boss. While in Perry county he served as tax collector; and he removed thence to Sunbury in 1881, passing the remainder of his life in the borough. His wife, Emma Wetzel, daughter of George Wetzel, of Perry county, died in 1905, at the age of fifty-seven years. They had children as follows: Robert, William, Mary (Mrs. Samuel Willits), Clara M. (Mrs. Elmer V. Malick), Rebecca (unmarried), Seymour, Wilson and Charles. Henry Malick, the grandfather of Emanuel Malick, of Shamokin, came from Germany and settled in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, on a farm about two and a half miles from the Susquehanna river. He had a large tract of land, which later was divided into two farms. When the Miles Run United Brethren Church was organized, at the schoolhouse of that name, in the winter of 1835, it was through the efforts of Henry and his brother, Peter Malick. Henry Malick is buried at Malick Church, in Lower Augusta township. His children were: John W., David, Henry, Harriet (married Peter Zimmerman), Helen (married Peter Sheaffer), Lucy (married Joseph Arnold) and Elizabeth (married John Henninger). John W. Malick, son of Henry, was born in 1812, and died in 1860. He was a lifelong farmer, owning part of the original homestead, and also owned and conducted a sawmill. He sold this farm before his death and removed to Limestone Valley, about half a mile from the old home place, where he died. He married Susan Heim, (daughter of Jonathan Heim, and they had children as follows: Samuel, deceased; Emanuel; Hiram, living at Williamstown, Dauphin county; Isaiah, liv- END OF PAGE 535 ing in Shamokin, Pa.; John L., also of Shamokin; William, deceased; and Emma J., wife of John Linderman of Shamokin. EMANUEL MALICK, son of John W., was born May 7, 1849, and obtained his education in the schools of his native township. His early life was spent in farm work at home, and in 1864 he came to Shamokin, where he began work in the mines, following this line for about nineteen years. He then engaged in the general store business in partnership with W. H. Malick and Flora Shuman, after six years buying out the interest of his partners and taking over the business entirely on his own account. He continued it until 1900, when he engaged in the restaurant business, which he has since followed, and in connection with which he is a cigar jobber and confectioner. He has two places of business, one on Spruce street and another at Shamokin and Commerce streets, in Shamokin, and he is making a success of both establishments. Mr. Malick married Hannah Diliplain, daughter of Ezekiel Diliplain, and five children have been born to them: Katie is married to C. C. Malick and has a son Robert; Andrew died in 1909, at the age of thirty-six years, leaving two children, Leon and Chester; William died when twenty-two years old; Frederick, a graduate of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., is now vice principal of the Dover (Del.) Academy; Flora O. is unmarried and resides at home. The family reside at No. 508 Market street. Mr. Malick is a member of the Methodist Church, and in fraternal connection he holds membership in the I.O.O.F. and Encampment and also in the P.O.S. of A. He is a Republican in politics, and for a number of years took an active part in local affairs, having served many years as assessor of Coal township, six years as school director, and for six years as member of the poor board of Coal township, giving excellent satisfaction in every capacity. GEORGE W. MALICK, a successful young business man of Herndon, is descended through the line of Henry, one of the emigrant brothers named as progenitors of this family. John Malick, great-grandfather of George W., lived in the Mahantango Valley, and is buried in that section. His son Henry, who was a miller in Mahantango Valley, is buried at St. Peter's Church, in Jackson township, Northumberland county. Among his sons were John and George Henry, besides others who died young and are buried at Himmel's Church, near Rebuck. George Henry Malick, father of George W., was a miller in his early life, later becoming a drover and butcher. While engaged in that line he lived at Lake Hill, but he afterward became engaged in farming at Herndon, owning 175 acres. He died Aug. 31, 1908, at the age of sixty- nine years, and is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Shamokin. His death, which occurred at the Miners' hospital, was caused by gangrene of the foot, brought on by cutting a troublesome corn. Mr. Malick was a well known man of his day, having held several township offices, and was originally a Democrat later a Republican, in politics. He married Caroline Heppler, daughter of Joseph Heppler, of Hepler, Pa. They had a family of six children: Jane married George L. Snyder; Lizzie married Lewis Heim; Kate (deceased) married John Lyon and (second) Daniel Scheib; Carrie married E. C. Fouil; Francis died at the age of seven years, of diphtheria, at Girardville; George W. is mentioned below. George W. Malick was born May 19, 1880, at Herndon, and was seven years old when his parents moved thence to Shamokin, where he received the greater part of his education. When old enough he took up dentistry with U. S. G. Moore, of Shamokin, but after two years he gave up the idea of following that profession and entered the employ of I. W. Forry & Son, hosiery manufacturers. He was with them for three years, after which he was employed by Ressler & Co., hosiery manufacturers, until that firm discontinued business. He then opened a mill for Madeira & Wanner, at Lyon Station, Pa., continuing there for one year, when the establishment was moved to Fleetwood. Mr. Lyon embarked in the business on his own account at Lyon in November, 1902, and was there for two years, late in 1904 removing to Herndon, where he has since been located. He has a two-story building 58 by 28 feet in dimensions, where he runs twenty-five machines, giving employment to thirty-five people, and he also operates a mill across the Susquehanna river, at Port Trevorton, where twenty machines are operated, giving employment to twenty-five people. Mr. Malick is sole proprietor of both establishments, the one at Port Trevorton, however, being under the management of Henry Morrow. A ready market is found for the product which has an excellent reputation among dealers. In 1899 Mr. Malick married Priscilla Rhoades, daughter of Henry and Lila (Levan) Rhoades, of Shamokin, and they have had two children, Irwin George Henry and Lila Priscilla. Mr. Malick and his family are members of the Reformed Church. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Lafayette Lodge, No. 194, F. & A.M., at Selinsgrove, Pa., and to the Modern Woodmen of America, belonging to the lodge at Herndon. He is a Republican in politics, and is serving at present as member of the Herndon school board. John Malick, brother of George Henry and uncle of George W., was the historian of the family. He was educated for the medical profession, but never END OF PAGE 536 engaged in practice. In early life he was interested in the milling business, but discontinued it and took up farming at Leck Kill, where he made his home. He sold musical instruments and dealt in various other commodities. He was married twice, and was the father of one child. Mr. Malick died in 1897 and is buried at Lake Hill. The day of his death he walked twelve miles. He had foretold the event and called neighbors to his assistance, giving them instructions about his funeral and burial.

• Note: marriage/kids has errors.

Johan married Mary. (Mary was born about 1715 in Germany.)