The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 4,  1906
page 5

TAYLOR FLICK DEAD

Early Day Resident of Oklahoma City Passes Away At Broken Bow, Nebraska.

News of the death of Taylor Flick of Broken Bow, Neb., one of the early Oklahoma citizens, was received in the city yesterday. Mr. Flick has been ill for some time, and last December was stricken with partial paralysis and heart failure. Recently he suffered another stroke of paralysis, which effected his entire right side, leaving him speechless and in a helpless condition. The Custer County Chief of Broken Bow published a lengthy obituary notice, of which the following is an excerpt:

The life of Taylor Flick would make an interesting volume. He was born at Beallsville, Pa., November 6, 1833. His father died in 1853, and five years later, Taylor, his mother, two brothers and four sisters emigrated to Livingston County, Illinois. She was married October 1, 1860, to Miss Elza Mouser, at Wenona, Ill. In 1872, he went to Hutchinson, Kan., then a small town. It was here he first entered public life. He was the first mayor of Hutchinson, and was afterwards elected county superintendent of Reno county, Kansas. He afterward located at Kinsley, Kan., was elected county attorney of Edwards county, and later served two terms in the legislature from that county. During the latter eighties, he and his wife spent several years in travel. At the time of the Oklahoma bill was before congress, he in company with General Weaver, Captain Couch, Sydney Clarke, and others spent much time in Washington, in the interest of the bill.

His wife died in September 1895, in Broken Bow, Nebraska.

{NOTE: article continues at length about his political career}

Two sons survive him, George Flick of Washington, D.C., and Walter Flick, of Oklahoma City.