[Prepared by the Citizens Historical Association of Indianapolis]
Profile of Albert C. Dick,
Proprietor, Louisville Barrel & Box Company
109 North Twenty-first Street, Louisville, Kentucky
December 25, 1943
Albert C(onrad) Dick, son of Albert Mallory and Emma Albertine (Conrad) Dick, was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 31, 1885.
Albert Mallory Dick, son of Samuel P. and Frances Dick, was born in 1858 in Louisville, Ky., where he died June 18, 1918. He was a merchandise broker. His wife, Emma Albertine (Conrad) Dick, was born in 1863 in Louisville, Ky., where she died Dec. 18. 1931. She was the daughter of Theophilus and Mary (Krieger) Conrad. Albert Mallory and Emma Albertine (Conrad) Dick were the parents of 2 children, Albert Conrad being the elder.
Theophilus Conrad, father of Emma Albertine (Conrad) Dick, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, and later came to the U.S., settling in New Orleans, La. He subsequently moved to Louisville, Ky., where he became pres. of the Conrad Tanning Co. His wife, Mary (Krieger) Conrad, was born in Indiana. (NOTE: Theophilus Conrad built the Conrad-Caldwell House, a magnificent Richardsonian Mansion on Old Louisville’s St. James Court known as “Conrad’s Castle” for the extravagant sum of $75,000. The house is open to the public for tours from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Admission charge is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $3 for students.)
Samuel P. Dick, father of Albert Mallory Dick, was born in Scotland and later came to the U.S., settling in Louisville, Ky. when a young man. He founded and became president of the Dick-Middleton Tobacco. His wife, Frances Dick, was a native of Pennsylvania.
Albert C. Dick, the subject of this sketch, attended grade and high schools. in Louisville, Ky., being graduated from DuPont Manual Training High School. in 1905. He received. an A.B. deg. from Centre College, of Danville, Ky. in 1907, an L.L.B. degree. from the University of Virginia in 1909 and an LL.B. deg. from the University of Louisville in 1910. He engaged in the practice of law in Louisville from 1910 until 1915, and in the latter year entered the general insurance business in Louisville. In 1941 he purchased the Louisville Barrel & Box Co, of which he is sole owner. The company processes cooperate and steel drums, which are sold internationally. Mr. Dick, who is a Republican, is a member of the following: Delta Kappa Epsilon; Pendennis Club; Louisville Country Club; and Unitarian Church.
On October 3, 1912, Mr. Dick married Hattie Hoadley Cochran, who was born in Louisville, Nov. 24, 1890. Her parents, Hoadley and Amelia (Weissinger) Cochran are dead. Hoadley Cochran was a steam engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Dick are the parents of two children: (1) Albert Conrad, Jr., who was born Sept. 17, 1915. He is serving with the rank of 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps. (2) John H. Cochran, who was born Sept. 20, 1920. He is serving in the Engineer Corps of the U.S. Army.
