Wilson Daily Times, 23 August 1920.
W.P. Singletary advertised for sale 35 lots and several rental houses near the Colored Graded School and two commercial properties on the east side of town.
Real estate for sale.
investment property
New Jersey land company offers investment opportunity.
Wilson Daily Times, 6 August 1919.
- Prof. S.H. Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
- George H. White Land and Improvement Company
Vick has piled up a fortune.
In June 1916, a Laurinburg newspaper reprinted the Wilson Dispatch‘s tally of Samuel H. Vick‘s wealth.
Laurinburg Exchange, 1 June 1916.
Some minor corrections:
- Vick was neither born nor bred in Wilson, though he moved to town as a small child. He and his parents were from Nash County, North Carolina.
- In 1916, 98 town lots represented a sizable minority of all the lots in East Wilson. (Though not all Vick’s property was east of the tracks.) By time his empire collapsed in 1935, he owned much more.
- It is not clear why Vick — who had living siblings — would be considered the practical owner of his father Daniel Vick‘s estate.
- Vick’s holdings were in Whitesboro, New Jersey, not North Carolina.
Sam Vick and Whitesboro, New Jersey.
Typescript letter signed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, signed by George H. White (Secretary and Treasurer of the George H. White Land and Improvement Company of Cape May County, New Jersey) to Samuel H. Vick in Wilson, North Carolina, 23 June 1911.
Testimonials from citizens of Whitesboro, N.J., and Wilson, N.C., concerning the lands owned by S.H. Vick in that place.
Front page, brochure advertising Whitesboro, New Jersey.
Postcard.
From Collection of printed and manuscript sales and promotional material for George H. White’s Cape May/Whitesboro, New Jersey housing project; Beinecke Digital Collection, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Images available on-line.