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George Peter Flick was born on 7 February 1789 in Altenstadt, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. He died on 11 February 1874, at age 85, in Loretto, Cambria, PA, United States.

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Johann Flick was born on 23 July 1813 in Altenstadt, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. He died on 18 September 1896, at age 83, in Carrolltown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USAG, Saint Benedict's Catholic Cemetery.

General History of Cambria County,Pa page 21

John Flick was born at Alstadt, Alsace on the 23rd of July 1813. He lived there until March 1832, when he accompanied his father to this country. He landed in New York in May of the same year. His father's destination was Ohio, and the entire family started for that place by way of Albany, Buffalo and Erie. At Buffalo Mr Flick, senior, concluded to locate in Pa. He heard of acquaintance at Particle Furnace, and started for that place by way of Erie and Phillipsburg. He arrived at Particle Furnace sometime in June. John Flick, being the oldest of the family, at once set to work with his father at Particle Furance. For two years he filled furnaces and thereafter he jobbed wood and put in what is technically called night stock. During his stay at Particle Furnace he attended church at Tuckio, now Tyrone City, where Father Bradley occasionally said mass in an old log hut. During the fall of 1835, Mr Flick moved to Loretto with his father, where the latter had bought a farm. Here he hired out as a farm hand during the summer and worked on the Portage Railroad during the rest of the year. On the Portage he hitched and hauled cars and quarried and cut stone. He worked on the Portage until 1842 with the exception of one winter, during which he jobbed cord wood in Hamilton County, Ohio. Mr Flick got married on Feb 1st, 1840 to a Elizabeth Sharbaugh, daughter of Jacob Sharbaugh, a German farmer located in Carroll Township. During the first two years of his marriage life he lived at his father's house at foot of four, and at head of six, each during part of the time.

In Feb., Mr Flick Bought seventy five acres of land in Carroll Township. He at once moved into a little log house on his farm and proceeded to develop his land.By hard labor and thrifty habits, he was able for the land he had bought and was in a position to buy 75 acres more from Rev. Henry Lemcke in 1848. The land which he purchased from Father Lemcke adjoining the first bought farm on the north and was nearly all woodland. Year by year Mr Flick cleared part of it and bought it under cultivation, until after a farmers, Mr Flick's prosperity was frequently accentuated by the arrival of sons and daughters, and he soon found his log hut too small to accommodate his family. He accordingly, in 1853, built a large brick house, which is end of the county. In 1856 he also replaced the old barn by a new one, being one of the first in the northern part of the county to put up large, well-built, frame barn. In 1861 Mr Flick made another addition to his farm by purchasing the Luther farm, adjoining his own on the west, and consisting of about 66 acres. He now owned a compact piece of land consisting of something over 200 acres, most of it cleared, and in good state of cultivation and he was looked upon as possessing one of the finest farms in the country, and as being one of the most successful farmers. Himself and wife were blessed with a large family of children, having had twelve born to them, and having raised eleven. For years happiness and prosperity pursued each other at the old homestead, and hospitality and merriment reigned within its wall. Envious death was, however, not unobserving, and in 1869, sadness came over a happy family and a large circle of loving friends, by the untimely death of Mrs Flick. Mr Flick was married a second time, to Mary Bradley, of Loretto. As many of his children were now married, he moved from the farm to a neat little house in town, where he has since lived in quiet happiness, enjoying the good opinion of his fellow men.

Johannes Joseph Flick was born in 1664.