Montclair Times, 17 September 1959.
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In the 1880 census of Wilson township, Wilson County: gristmill worker Daniel Vick, 38, wife Fannie, 35, and children Samuel, 16, Nettie, 14, Earnest Linwood, 12, Henry, 10, and James O.F., 8, plus Frank O. Blount, 20, and Marcus W. Blount, 26.
William Henry Vick graduated from the Wilson Colored Graded School in 1889 and from Lincoln University in 1894 with a bachelor’s degree. He later received a master’s degree from Lincoln. In 1897, he passed the pharmacist licensing exams of North Carolina and New Jersey.
In the 1903 and 1905 Charlotte, N.C., city directories:
In the 1907 Atlantic City, N.J., city directory: Vick William H (Caroline J) druggist 1811 Arctic av
Per delayed birth record, Fannie Marene Vick was born 7 September 1908 in Mecklenburg County, N.C., to William Henry Vick and [unnamed] Dixon.
In the 1910 census of Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey: druggist William H. Vick, wife Carrie J., 32, daughter Fannie M., 6, and William, 2.
In 1912, the Vicks migrated to Toronto, Canada, where they remained for ten years. In the 1921 census of Toronto, Ontario, Canada: at 5 Crocker Street, William H. Vick, 48; wife Carrie, 43; and children Fanny, 17, and Henry, 13. William immigrated in 1912; the rest of the family in 1913. He reported that the family was of Scotch descent and were Presbyterian, and he worked as a porter in a railroad club. [Why did Vick leave his pharmacy career to move to Canada to work as a servant for a decade? And “Scotch”? (By the way, 5 Crocker Street is a small, semi-detached house in the Trinity-Bellwoods neighborhood now valued at more than $850,000.]
In the 1930 census of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, at 450 Orange Road: drugstore owner William Vick, 58, wife Carrie, 53, and daughter Fannie, 24, with two boarders. Vick’s home was valued at $10,000.
W.H. Vick was active in Republican Party politics in Essex County, as he had been in Wilson.
Montclair Times, 31 July 1936.
In the spring of 1938, Vick and Leo M. Avstreih, a Russian Jewish immigrant, opened Montclair Pharmacy on a downtown corner.
Montclair Times, 25 March 1938.
In the 1947 Montclair, N.J., city directory: Vick William H (Carrie J) pharmacist r 53 Greenwood av
In the 1950 census of Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey: lodgers at 53 Greenwood Avenue, pharmacist William Vick, 78, and wife Carrie, 78.
Caroline Dixon Vick survived her husband by a decade.
Montclair Times, 25 September 1969.