The Garlick Family of Smethport, Pennsylvania

A Connecticut family of this name was apparently settled at Milford in the early years of the eighteenth century. Yet the family is to the present day small and scattered. Henry Garlick, who came from England was in Milford in 1718, and in New Milford, Connecticut, in March, 1721. He had a large family, including seven sons. In England also the name seems to be rare and to belong especially, if not exclusively, to Lancashire. In the revolution Captain Samuel Garlick, a native of Huntington, Connecticut, was a soldier; he afterward lived at Rose, Wayne county, New York. It remains to say that despite the great similarity of name there is a quite distinct family, Garlock, of Palatine descent, their founder having been one of the leading spirits among those early German immigrants to New York state. Usually variations in surname, of so slight character, indicate nothing else than divergence in spelling; in this case, if the two spellings have been preserved unconfused, there is a wide racial distinction, and it is natural to suppose that any one of the name Garlick is descended from Henry Garlick, of Milford and New Milford.

(I) Truman Garlick

Truman Garlick, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was born in Otsego county, New York, died at Kasson, McKean county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1878. Beside having a farm and residing at Wilcox, Pennsylvania, he was a teamster, going between Smethport and Buffalo and between Smethport and Pittsburgh. He was a Republican. He married Katharine Rifle, born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, died at Wilcox. Children:

1. Charles, died young, unmarried.
2. Henry, died young, unmarried.
3. George Orson, of whom further.
4. Elizabeth, died at Hazelhurst, Pennsylvania; married Horace Stark, of McKean county, a farmer; children:
   1. Dora, deceased;
   2. Lucy, resides in Buffalo.
5. Phoebe, died at Stillwater, Minnesota; married Truman McFall, deceased; large family.
6. Lucy, died at Kasson; married Joseph Barnes, of McKean county, deceased; he was a carpenter and a Union veteran, having served throughout the war in the “Bucktail” Regiment; children:
   1. Myra, deceased;
   2. Katharine, married Thomas Reed, resides in Buffalo;
   3. Elizabeth, died young.

(II) George Orson Garlick

George Orson, son of Truman and Katharine (Rifle) Garlick, was born in Hamlin township, McKean county, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1839. His boyhood days were spent on the farm with his father, and his schooling was received in his native township at the public school. After his marriage he went to Minnesota, but he remained there only one year. Although he had never learned the trade of shoemaker, he then went to Wilcox and engaged in that work. This he continued at that place for ten years, when he settled on a farm in Hamlin township, where the greater part of his adult life has been passed. He still resides at Kasson, of which he was postmaster for twenty-six years. He is a Republican. Beside the postmastership he held for six years the office of school director, and for an extended period that of poor master of Elk county. He attends the Methodist church. He married Phoebe, born on Long Island, New York, March 24, 1843, daughter of Bernard and Bridget (Graham) McKean. She is a communicant of the Catholic church. Her father was born in Ireland, 1810, died at Smethport, December 8, 1890. His home was near Smethport, and he was a farmer. His wife was born in the North of Ireland, 1819, died at Smethport, July 13, 1888. Children of Bernard and Bridget (Graham) McKean:

1. Phoebe, married George Orson Garlick.
2. Thomas L., twin of Phoebe, born March 24, 1843; a traveling salesman, residing at Wilcox; married Lena Weidert, of Wilcox; children:
   1. Mamie, a nurse in Philadelphia, unmarried;
   2. Katharine, residing at Wilcox, unmarried.
3. James A., born August 11, 1845, at Glen Cove, Long Island; farmer and lumberman; he was three years old when his father removed to McKean county; having received only a common school education, he has improved every opportunity to acquire a knowledge of the higher English branches; at the age of eighteen he entered the employment of James E. Butts, at Buttsville, and during the two years spent in his service had charge of the building of the high dam across Three-Mile Run; afterward he worked at the carpenter’s trade, and was later employed at Kane in the car shops of the Pennsylvania & Erie Railroad Company; in 1874 he bought the farm adjoining his father’s to the southward, and he has since that time been extensively engaged in the lumber and bark business, often in the season employing one hundred men; having built one of the most imposing residences in Smethport, he now lives there; his first presidential vote was cast for Grant in 1868, and he is a staunch Republican; for two terms he has been supervisor of his township, and in 1887 was elected a member of the county board of supervisors; among his business interests are the Hamlin Bank and Trust Company and the Smethport Water and Gas Company; he married, in January, 1869, Julia (Fox) Hubbard; her first husband, Simon Hubbard, died February 2, 1866, at Johnsonburg, and by him she has one son, Simon William, born March 6, 1865, employed by the Smethport Water and Gas Company; he married Nettie Parsons, from LaPere, New York, born there March 26, 1865, died at Smethport, February 17, 1901, and has children, Margaret C., born at Newton, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1896, and James W., born at Smethport, February 23, 1898; Mrs. McKean was born at Windsor, Ontario, in 1837; child of James A. and Julia (Fox-Hubbard) McKean: Margaret Mary, born January 8, 1873, married, September 22, 1896, Frederick Gallup.
4. Mary, born at Smethport, March 28, 1850; married Henry Gallup; they reside at Smethport, and he has a dry goods store; child,
   1. William Henry, born at Smethport, April 1, 1880, married Teresa Heinemann, of Colegrove, Pennsylvania; they have a daughter,
      1. Julia Belle, born June 3, 1911.
5. William, twin of Mary, born at Smethport, March 28, 1850, died at Smethport, April 16, 1864.
6. Charles, born October 22, 1854; oil producer; lives at Smethport; married Catharine Daly; no children.
7. Edward, born at Smethport, April 20, 1858; farmer, near Smethport; married Elizabeth Haffner, of Clermont, Pennsylvania; children:
   1. Carlton, born in October, 1889;
   2. Charles, born in October, 1890;
   3. Helen, born December 25, 1892;
   4. Katharine, born July 15, 1894;
   5. Lena, born April 1, 1898;
   6. Robert, born February 3, 1901.

Children of George Orson and Phoebe (McKean) Garlick:

1. Alberta, born at Wilcox, in 1866, unmarried, residing with her parents.
2. Eva, born at Wilcox, in 1868, unmarried, residing with her parents.
3. Bernard Truman, of whom further.

(III) Bernard Truman Garlick

Bernard Truman, son of George Orson and Phoebe (McKean) Garlick, was born at Kasson, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1878. There he was sent to the district school, and he also attended the Smethport high school. In 1900 he took a course at the Westbrook Commercial College, at Olean, New York. He then took a position in the lumber offices of McKean Brothers, at Smethport, in which he remained until 1905. In that year he was appointed to the responsible position of manager of the Smethport Water and Gas Company, which he has acceptably filled from that time. He is also a partner in the hardware firm of Daly & Garlick with an extensive business through this section of the county, and a director of the Taintor Chemical Company at Taintor, Pennsylvania. His political party is the Republican, and his church the Protestant Episcopal, he being a member of St. Luke’s, of Smethport. He married, September 25, 1907, Gertrude, born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1883, daughter of John E. and Elizabeth (Barber) Walker. She attended public school at New Castle, and the high school at Smethport. Children of Bernard Truman and Gertrude (Walker) Garlick:

1. Bernard, born at Smethport, December 14, 1908.
2. George Edward, born at Smethport, January 13, 1911.

John E. Walker, a nail manufacturer at Smethport, was born at New Castle, March 10, 1853. His wife was born at New Castle, April 18, 1858. Children of John E. and Elizabeth (Barber) Walker:

1. Jonathan Scott, born at New Castle, October 28, 1877; secretary and treasurer of the Smethport Glass Company; married Rena Gallup, of Smethport; no children.
2. Charles Edward, born at New Castle, November 17, 1879; a bottle blower at Smethport; unmarried.
3. Gertrude, married Bernard Truman Garlick.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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