Quick, Ivan T.; general insurance; born, Canada, April 5, 1888; son of Oscar and Clara Clark Quick; educated, Lincoln, Ill., Odd Fellows Orphan’s Home, eighth grade; clerk in wholesale grocery house in Aurora, Ill., in 1904; 1905, came to Cleveland; formed partnership of Quick & Hunter, in Pittsburgh, in 1906, failed; was then in the employ of the East Ohio Gas Co. for a year and a half; employed by The Paul E. Kroehle Co., merchandise brokers, in 1908; employed by The Manhattan Soap Co., of New York City, as salesman, in 1909; started in the insurance business in Cleveland, March, 1910, under J. J. Shipley; formed the partnership of Shipley & Quick, in 1911; entered the corporation of Shipley & Quick Co., in 1912; pres. Shipley & Quick Co.; sec’y and director The Cooperative Investment Co.; director the Utility Sales Co.; member The Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
