JAMES A. QUICK.
     One and one-half miles south of Wayland stands one of the early land marks Clark County. It is the old "Brick Church" which was built in I 1856. Mr. Geo. K. Biggs, one of the early settlers, and a Baptist, was the leading spirit in given giving this house of worship to the early settlers. It is located at the old "Mitchell tract." On a part of this tract is the homestead and residence of James A. Quick. This residence is also a land mark. The old brick church marks the old; Mr. Quick's residence the new order of things. Once is a relic of early times; the other a conspicuous instance of modern country architecture.
     Mr. Quick was born in Hancock County, Illinois, July 27, 1849. His parents were Kentuckians and had moved to Illinois only the previous year. Mr. Quick reared and educated in Illinois and on the farm, and has pursued farming all his life with the exception of about eighteen months when he was merchandising at Sutter, Illinois. In 1871 Mr. Quick was married to Miss Victoria Madox, also of Hancock County, Illinois, and to them have been born one girl and two boys.
     The family moved to Missouri and their present homestead in 1885, and Mr. Quick at once took his place in the front with the active, alive, pushing men who have done so much to bring Clark Comity to its present condition of prosperity.