From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

pp. 433-434

Albert J. FRICK, a resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, for the past 
seven years, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, is manager of 
the Crystal Manufactured Ice Company, a new corporation formed by J. 
C. McKinley, William Phillips, Dr. N. A. Henning, E. L. Caldwell and 
A. J. Frick.
	Mr. Frick was connected with the West Virginia Coal & Ice 
Company, which was first established about 1883 by Robert Teasdale 
and George Crumbacker, under the firm name of Crumbacker & Teasdale.  
They handled ice and coal.  At that time there was no manufactured 
ice consumed or handled at Wheeling.  Lake ice was shipped from 
Sandusky, Ohio, and sold readily at from 40 cents to 60 cents per 
cwt.  Business has been conducted, as at present, at the corner of 
Sixteenth and Chapline streets.  About 1890 the firm of Crumbacker & 
Teasdale was dissolved, Mr. Teasdale purchasing the entire business, 
which he conducted as Robert Teasdale for one or two years.  Then the 
est Virginia Coal & Ice Company was formed, with Mr. Teasdale as 
president, Wilson Allen, manager, and S. N. Hirst as secretary and 
treasurer; this continued until Mr. Hirst's death, in June, 1895.  
Mr. Allen retired from business and Mr. Frick became a partner, and 
later William Teasdale took an interest.  After the death of William 
Teasdale, in January, 1899, Mr. Frick and Robert Teasdale conducted 
the business until May, 1901, when Mr. Teasdale assumed the entire 
business of the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company.  Mr. Frick then 
assisted in organizing the Crystal Manufactured Ice Company, but 
continued with Mr. Teasdale until September, 1901.
	The Crystal Manufactured Ice Company has a capital of $25,000, 
and is a successor to A. M. Hamilton, previously located at No. 1144 
Market street; they purchased Mr. Hamilton's business and good will.  
Their present office is at Twenty-seventh and Main streets.  They 
have a branch office and ample stables, etc., at the corner of 
Twenty-ninth and Woods streets.  The company have a contract with the 
Schmuhlbach Brewing Company for ice supply from their plant for five 
years, and if the business so demands at the end of that time, the 
company will probably erect a plant of their own. The indications are 
for an immense business, which will be the largest in the city.  The 
coal department will be looked after by Mr. McKinley, while Mr. Frick 
will care for the ice department.  Twelve horses are now in use, with 
five large ice wagons and six coal wagons.
	Mr. Frick was born at Pittsburg, and received his mental 
training in the public schools of his native city.  His father and 
mother were New York and Pennsylvania people, respectively.  Mr. 
Frick married Sadie Cole, a daughter of Samuel Cole, city 
weighmaster, and an old resident of Wheeling.  Mr. Cole was formerly 
interested in the old paper mills at Fulton.
	Mr. Frick is permanently located in the second ward, in 
Wheeling.  Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F.; Jr. O. U. A. 
M.; and Tribe of Ben Hur.  In politics he advocates the principles of 
the Republican party.  He was trained during his early life in the 
Lutheran-Evangelical church, but since attaining his manhood has 
allied himself with the Zane Street M. E. church.