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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [336-337]

           JACOB T. RORICK, editor and proprietor of the Bad Axe Democrat,
        published at Bad Axe, Mich., was born in the State of New Jersey,
        Feb. 9, 1853;  he is a son of MARK and ANN E. (MOORE) RORICK, the
        former of German-English extraction, the latter of Irish descent,
        and both natives of New Jersey, where they lived and died.
           The subject of this sketch attended school the first 15 years of
        his life: he was then engaged in working on a farm by the month for
        a period of seven years, after which he engaged in teaching school,
        some 14 terms, in the country; he then became Principal of the
        Schools at Canandaigua, Mich., for three terms, then acted as Prin-
        cipal of the Schools at Fayette, Ohio. He emigrated to Michigan in
        the year 1867, having been engaged for a short time previously as
        clerk in a grocery store.  Several years since, he was engaged for
        a time in dealing in produce, with a fair degree of success. He
        came to Bad Axe in July, 1884, and purchased the press from WILLIAM
        T. HUTCHINSON and entered immediately upon the duties of publishing
        a paper known as the Bad Axe Democrat, which he has continued up to
        the present time, a more extended sketch of which will be found
        elsewhere in this work.
           MR. RORICK was married in Lenawee Co., Mich., April 16, 1881, to
        CARRIE ELDRIDGE, daughter of the REV. H. P. and SARAH (AVERILL)
        ELDRIDGE; she was born in New York, Feb. 4, 1858. They have by this
        union one child, MARK ELDRIDGE, born Feb. 1, 1884.  MR. RORICK is a
        member of the Order of Freemasons, belonging to Lodge No. 173,
        Medina, Lenawee Co., Mich. In political faith MR. RORICK is, as the
        title of his paper would seem to indicate, a Democrat of strong
        type. He holds to the principles of no compromise with wrong, but
        to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may. On the
        subject of religion he is a freethinker.

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