Reuben Jay Flick (1871-1940)
R. Jay Flick Jr., Industrialist, of New York City & Lenox, Massachusetts
He was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Paul Flick who emigrated to America from Holland and founded Flicksville. On graduating from Princeton University (1894), he took a controlling share in his father's extensive coal mines but started his career as Treasurer and Business Manager of The Wilkes-Barre Times before serving as it President and Editor from 1905 to 1907. Through his father's business interests, he was President of the Pittston Gas Company; the Wilkes-Barre Lace Company; the Bethlehem Gas Company; Vineland (New Jersey) Light & power Company; Mahonoy City Gas Company; Consumer's Gas Company; and, Wyandotte Gas Company. He was a director of the Wyoming Valley Trust Company; the Ann Arbor Railroad; George W. Jackson Company; and, the Hazard Manufacturing Company. In 1918, he was director of the Bureau of Construction for the American Red Cross.
Flick lived between 1016 Fifth Avenue in New York; Greenhill Farms in Overbrook, Pennsylvania; Palm Beach in Florida; and, for many years he summered at Lenox in Massachusetts where he replaced Allen Winden with "Uplands". He was President of the Lenox Horse Show Association (1903 to 1906) and Governor of the Lenox Club, the Stockbridge Golf Club and the Mahkeenac Boat Club. In New York, he belonged to the Union, Racquet & Tennis, Turf & Field, and Grolier clubs as well as being a member of the Holland Society. In 1909, he married Henrietta, daughter of Nicholas Greenbury Ridegly of Baltimore. They had two daughters, notably Margot Flick Hoffman who shocked society after her honeymoon - returning not with her husband, but running off to London with another woman, the Irish aristocrat Doris Castlerosse, before buying the Palazzo Venier.
Flick lived between 1016 Fifth Avenue in New York; Greenhill Farms in Overbrook, Pennsylvania; Palm Beach in Florida; and, for many years he summered at Lenox in Massachusetts where he replaced Allen Winden with "Uplands". He was President of the Lenox Horse Show Association (1903 to 1906) and Governor of the Lenox Club, the Stockbridge Golf Club and the Mahkeenac Boat Club. In New York, he belonged to the Union, Racquet & Tennis, Turf & Field, and Grolier clubs as well as being a member of the Holland Society. In 1909, he married Henrietta, daughter of Nicholas Greenbury Ridegly of Baltimore. They had two daughters, notably Margot Flick Hoffman who shocked society after her honeymoon - returning not with her husband, but running off to London with another woman, the Irish aristocrat Doris Castlerosse, before buying the Palazzo Venier.
