Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
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Charles Latham
30 November 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder (bound volume)
COLLECTION DATE: 1915
PROVENANCE: Unknown
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: SC 1525, Edwin Ebin Wallick (son)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0324X
John F. Wallick (1830-1921) was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel and Mary (Glenn) Wallick. Having received a common school education, he moved in 1849 to Ohio, where he worked in a dry goods store in Fredericksburg and then in the post office in Wooster. In 1851 he learned to operate the telegraph, and in the following year he was sent to Indianapolis by the Wade Telegraph Company (absorbed by Western Union in 1856). For a few months in 1864 he employed Thomas A. Edison, who became a lifelong friend.
From 1864 to 1911 Wallick ran the Indianapolis office of Western Union. In 1862 he married Mary Martin, and they and their family lived at the southwest corner of St. Joseph and Meridian Streets, in a house later made into the Glenn Martin apartments.
Wallick was an active member of the Odd Fellows and Scottish Rite Masons, of the Second Presbyterian Church, and of the YMCA. The volume in this collection celebrates the last-named connection.
Sources: Dunn, Indiana and Indianans, IV 1708-1710
Indiana Biographical Series, III 186-187
This collection contains one item, a bound volume entitled "1885-1915-- the 30th anniversary of John F. Wallick's election as Treasurer of the Indiana Young Men's Christian Association and as a member of the State Executive Council." Pasted in the volume are letters and speeches commemorating Wallick's work with the YMCA. Christopher B. Coleman and Charles W. Fairbanks are among the contributors.
MAIN ENTRY: Wallick, John F., 1830-1921
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Wallick, John F., 1830-1921
Indiana Young Men's Christian Association
Young Men's Christian associations--Indiana
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