Dick Family

It was about a dozen years after the invention of his famous mimeograph that Albert Blake Dick and his family began to spend summers in Lake Forest. In 1902, architect James Gamble Rogers designed the family estate on 40 acres near Deerpath and Waukegan; the Dicks christened the home “Westmoreland” after the Pennsylvania county of their forebears.

A. B. Dick Company had its headquarters in Chicago and then in Niles, but the Dick family were very much Lake Foresters. They served as aldermen and mayors, attended the Bell School, held directorships of local banks, and were members of local clubs and churches. Gifts of land from the Westmoreland estate paved the way for two community institutions: the Deerpath Golf Course and, of course, Lake Forest Hospital, where the connection with the Dick family has continued through the generations.

Nomination submitted by John H. Dick and Madeleine B. Dugan

Click the thumbnail images below for a slide show about the Dick family from the 2012 Centennial Family Awards.