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Colonel George Dennick Wick (February 19, 1854 – April 15, 1912) was an American industrialist who served as founding president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, one of the nation's largest regional steel-manufacturing firms.〔 〕 He perished in the Atlantic during the sinking of the ''RMS Titanic''.〔 〕 ==Early life and career== Wick was born in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, where his family was established in the sectors of real estate and banking.〔 〕 Nineteenth-century Youngstown was a center of coal mining and iron production; and Wick, a resourceful entrepreneur, launched several ventures with business partner James A. Campbell,〔 who later served as director of the American Iron and Steel Institute.〔Fuechtmann (1989), p. 12.〕 In 1895, Wick and Campbell organized the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, with Wick as president. Five years later, the two men resigned from the firm when it was taken over by the Republic Iron and Steel Company,〔(OhioPix ) Accessed 2007-03-27 〕 and their next project would come in response to major changes that occurred in the community's industrial sector. Youngstown's industrial leaders began to convert from iron to steel manufacturing at the turn of the century, a period that also saw a wave of consolidations that placed much of the community's industry in the hands of national corporations.〔Blue et al. (1995), p. 94.〕 To the rising concern of many area industrialists, U.S. Steel, shortly after its establishment in 1901, absorbed Youngstown's premier steel producer, the National Steel Company.〔 During the previous year, however, Wick and Campbell pooled resources with other local investors who wanted to maintain significant levels of local ownership within the city's manufacturing sector.〔 The group established the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company with $600,000 in capital〔 and eventually turned it into one of the nation's most important steel producers.〔Fuechtmann (1989), p. 16.〕 Wick, who emerged as the steel company's first president in 1900, appointed Campbell as secretary. Two years later, Campbell rose to the position of vice president; and in 1904, he began his long tenure as president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube.〔 〕 Wick, meanwhile, was forced to take an extended leave of absence because of health problems, though he returned to the company a few years before his death.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Dennick Wick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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