Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 786
JAMES T. SORICK

James T. SORICK, a farmer living on section 25, Cincinnati Township, came to Harrison County, with his father in the spring of 1864, and rented a farm in St. John's Township, and lived there that season, but his father bought eighty acres of wild land the same season he came and in the fall built a frame house upon it out of cottonwood lumber. The family removed into this the fall of 1864, and our subject remained at home with his parents for some time, and then went to work by the month on the farm, continuing two years. The next two years we find him engaged at breaking prairie with ox-teams for two seasons, since which time he has farmed. In 1877 he went to northwestern Kansas, where he took a homestead and remained two years, and then came back to Harrison County.

Our subject was born in Pittsburg, Pa., February 22,1851. When he was a mere babe his parents removed to Mercer County, Ill., where his father took Government land and remained until his removal to this county.

Our subject was married in Harrison County, Iowa, March 2, 1879, to Miss Eliza E. LOSH, and they are the parents of four children: Harvey L., born February 15, 1880; Della M., May 14, 1881; Charles H., November 22, 1884; and Ida M., February 24, 1889. Charles H., died April 21, 1886. His death was caused by accidentally falling into a cistern.

Eliza E. (LOSH) SORICK was born in Henry County, Iowa, July 22, 1862, and in the fall of 1870 came with her parents to Harrison County, Iowa.

Michael SORICK, father of our subject (now deceased), was born in Germany in 1800, and in 1814 came with a sister to Pittsburg, Pa., where he went to work in a rolling mill; was there until about 1852, when he went to Illinois. He died in Harrison County, Iowa, November 12, 1884. The mother of our subject, Lois (BLANK) SORICK, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1816, and was married when sixteen years of age, and was the mother of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, our subject being the eighth child. The mother was a member of the Methodist Church, while the father belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

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