When Philip Slick was born on 7 October 1797, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Slick, was 42 and his mother, Rebecca Mettler, was 25. He married M. Mary Jones about 1823, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 7 November 1872, in St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Possibly an Americanized form of German Schlick .
English: nickname from Middle English slik, sliche, sleke (Old English slice) ‘sleek, plump, fat’.
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