WILLIAM QUICK, an enterprising and successful young farmer of Wright Township, has been a resident of Pottawattamie county, Iowa, since he was a small boy. He was born in Ohio, in August 1865 son of Jasper and Jane Quick, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. When quite young he came with his parents to Waveland Township, this county, where he grew up on a farm and received a limited education. He early learned habits of industry, honesty, and perseverance - factors in a young man's character, which will always insure success. His parents had eight children, three sons and five daughters, he being the first-born. For some time he worked out by the month.

March 10, 1887, Mr. Quick married Emeline Pierson, a native of Pottawattamie County, daughter of Granville and Elizabeth Pierson. Her father is an old settler of this county, and a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars. After his marriage Mr. Quick lived in Waveland Township one year. The farm on which he now lives, eighty acres on Section 12, Wright Township, he purchased from E.R. Pierson. With his characteristic go-aheadativeness he set about improving the farm at once: finished the house, built stables, cribs, granary, made stock-lots and put up a modern wind-pump, besides many other improvements in the way of fencing, etc. He is cultivating 320 acres having rented a large tract of land. He has sixty-five head of cattle, 100 hogs and four horses. Mr. Quick is a good judge of cattle and a successful breeder of the same. He and his wife have one daughter, Florence May.