Was an assistant to his father William Chick at their early store.
Washington Henry Chick, as a boy, roamed the hills when the land was a jungle. He saw the city take root from nothing when he worked in his father's store. In later years he talked of the McGees on O.K. Creek and Tom Smart who lived on the corner of what became 11th and Main Streets. The Smart land was covered with a jungle of trees and brush, but Mr. Smart hired a man to clear it at $2.00 a day. Tom Smart told Chick "he did not know where he was going to get the money, but afterwards he took a jug of whiskey to the levee and sold it to the Indians and made enough to pay the man." This farm, for which Smart paid $5.00 an acre, laid the foundation of two large fortunes, the Smart and Swope fortunes.
Washington Henry Chick, as a boy, roamed the hills when the land was a jungle. He saw the city take root from nothing when he worked in his father's store. In later years he talked of the McGees on O.K. Creek and Tom Smart who lived on the corner of what became 11th and Main Streets. The Smart land was covered with a jungle of trees and brush, but Mr. Smart hired a man to clear it at $2.00 a day. Tom Smart told Chick "he did not know where he was going to get the money, but afterwards he took a jug of whiskey to the levee and sold it to the Indians and made enough to pay the man." This farm, for which Smart paid $5.00 an acre, laid the foundation of two large fortunes, the Smart and Swope fortunes.
Was an assistant to his father William Chick at their early store.
Washington Henry Chick, as a boy, roamed the hills when the land was a jungle. He saw the city take root from nothing when he worked in his father's store. In later years he talked of the McGees on O.K. Creek and Tom Smart who lived on the corner of what became 11th and Main Streets. The Smart land was covered with a jungle of trees and brush, but Mr. Smart hired a man to clear it at $2.00 a day. Tom Smart told Chick "he did not know where he was going to get the money, but afterwards he took a jug of whiskey to the levee and sold it to the Indians and made enough to pay the man." This farm, for which Smart paid $5.00 an acre, laid the foundation of two large fortunes, the Smart and Swope fortunes.
Washington Henry Chick, as a boy, roamed the hills when the land was a jungle. He saw the city take root from nothing when he worked in his father's store. In later years he talked of the McGees on O.K. Creek and Tom Smart who lived on the corner of what became 11th and Main Streets. The Smart land was covered with a jungle of trees and brush, but Mr. Smart hired a man to clear it at $2.00 a day. Tom Smart told Chick "he did not know where he was going to get the money, but afterwards he took a jug of whiskey to the levee and sold it to the Indians and made enough to pay the man." This farm, for which Smart paid $5.00 an acre, laid the foundation of two large fortunes, the Smart and Swope fortunes.
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