Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

JOHN W. DICK

The above is always called by Saugatuckians, "Washington Dick," and he was given, a citizen, to Allegan county from the Buckeye state, the place of his birth.

He was reared to farm life and he never had any desire to change his occupation but always followed farming which George Washington said “Is the most useful as well as the most honorable occupation of man.”

In 1874 he was married to Loretta Walker, a native of Michigan, and they moved to the farm north of town, one hundred fifty acres of woods in its primitive state it was then, but with hard work both he and Mrs. Dick encountered, they made of it one of the fine farms and homes in the country, replacing, in 1895, the old frame building with a modern brick structure, and one of the charms of this home was its hospitality.

At one time the Dick farm boasted of its fine peach orchard of seventy-five acres, but after the passing of the peach era he began planting more hardy trees, as apple and pear, and the growing of grain.

Mr. Dick is a true gentleman, a man of greatest honesty and integrity, a public spirited citizen.

Mr. and Mrs. Dick are the parents of seven children, Everett, Ivor, Ivan, Jason, Bruce, Olive and Ruth, two of whom, Jason and Olive, are deceased.