Samuel Bernard Dick

Samuel B. Dick
Samuel B. Dick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Pennsylvania's 26th district
	In office; March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881
Preceded by	John M. Thompson
Succeeded by	Samuel H. Miller
Personal details
Born	October 26, 1836; Meadville, Pennsylvania
Died	May 10, 1907 (aged 70); Meadville, Pennsylvania
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Allegheny College

Samuel Bernard Dick (October 26, 1836 – May 10, 1907) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1881.

Biography

Samuel B. Dick (son of John Dick) was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools and later Allegheny College. Before the Civil War, he was engaged in banking.[1]

During the war, Dick served as captain of Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment.[2] He was severely wounded at the Battle of Dranesville, on December 20, 1861, and commanded the regiment at the Battle of Antietam. He subsequently served as colonel of the regiment until February 1863, when he resigned. He then commanded the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and proceeded to New Creek, West Virginia, in July 1863.

He served as mayor of Meadville in 1870, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the House in 1870 and 1876.[3] Dick was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1880. (Local custom required a candidate from another county.[3]) He was a delegate at the 1900 Republican National Convention and an alternate in 1904. He served as president of the Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company until April 1900. He was also president of Phoenix Iron Works Co.

He died in Meadville in 1907 and was interred at Greendale Cemetery.[1]

References

"Dick, Samuel Bernard, (1836-1907)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart (1865). History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co. p. 86. Retrieved June 20, 2018. pennsylvania reserves.
"Colonel Samuel Bernard Dick.". The Successful American, Volume 1, Part 1 - Volume 2, Part 1. New York, New York: The Press Biographical Company. 1899. pp. 22 & seq.

External links

United States Congress. "Samuel Bernard Dick (id: D000305)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-14
The Political Graveyard
Samuel Bernard Dick at Find a Grave
Dick's letter home from near Sharpsburg, MD, on Sep 25, 1862, postmarked Baltimore Sep 27.

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by John M. Thompson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1879–1881	Succeeded by Samuel H. Miller

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[congbio-1] "Dick, Samuel Bernard, (1836-1907)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[2] Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart (1865). History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co. p. 86. Retrieved June 20, 2018. pennsylvania reserves.

[Successful-3] "Colonel Samuel Bernard Dick.". The Successful American, Volume 1, Part 1 - Volume 2, Part 1. New York, New York: The Press Biographical Company. 1899. pp. 22 & seq.