Weldon, Williams & Lick

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Celebrating over 100 years of doing business as Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc., the chronicles of our Company from its beginning to the present serve as a remarkable reminder of how we have become the leader in our industry today.O. D. Weldon was a local editor and business manager of the Fort Smith Weekly Elevator. He was born near Cleveland, Ohio, on September 23, 1847. His father, Oliver, was one of the inventors of the spring clock. O. D. Weldon began learning the printer's trade in 1861, just as the Civil War was breaking out. He worked in the office of the Thirty-fifth Parallel, a weekly paper edited and published by General A. G. Mayers of Fort Smith. This paper only survived a short time due to the hostilities between the North and South. He joined the Confederate lines and remained there until 1863, when the Federals, under command of General Blunt, captured Fort Smith and occupied it until after the close of hostilities. In 1866, he again went to work at the printing business in the office of the Fort Smith Herald, owned by Judge John F. Wheeler, and from that time engaged alternately in the butchering and printing business until 1877. He was previously connected with the New Era newspaper. He was a regular correspondent for the New York Herald, Chicago Times, Globe Democrat, Texas Gazette and Arkansas Gazette. He was the original Vice-President of the Company. George T. Williams was the original Secretary-Treasurer of the Company. After a few years he sold out his interest in the business and returned to the sales profession, which was his occupation prior to the printing business.Chauncey A. Lick was born May 15, 1868 in Kansas City, Missouri. Shortly afterward his family moved to Springfield, Missouri where his father, a printer, established a weekly paper. When Chauncey was five years old his family again sought new fields and the elder Lick established a newspaper in St. Louis. Chauncey remained in St. Louis to become a journeyman compositor and was in the employ of Woodward and Tiernan when the general printers strike of 1887 occurred. Despite the admonition that he would have to survive the Indians and the malarial swamps of Arkansas, Lick set out for Fort Smith, Arkansas to answer a help wanted ad. He landed in Fort Smith with a watch and $1.47 in his pocket. He obtained a job in a printing shop and a few years later opened his own business as "Lick, Artist Printer." A short time after, he formed a partnership with Lawson Thrash under the name "Thrash-Lick" to do general job printing, booklets and a weekly newspaper.

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