Will was chairman of the board of National Suger Refining Co. and son of John Henry Dick (b. 22 Feb 1851 at New York City, d. 21 Oct 1925 at Islip, NY) and wife Julia Theodora Mollenhauer (b. 14 May 1863 at New York City, d. 02 July 1931 at

Islip).  Will m. (1) Madelaine Force Astor with whom he had William Force Dick (b. 11 April 1917 at New York City, d. 04 Dec 1961 at Port Maria, Jamaica) and John Henry Dick (b. 12 May 1919 at New York City, an ornothologist and painter and

illustrator, r. Dixie Plantation, Charleston, SC, and died in September, 1995 - see editorial tribute to him in The Post and

Courier, Charleston, September 26, 1995, p. 8-A).

Will's obituary lists his stepson, John Jacob Astor (his first wife remarried to John Jacob Astor).  It also lists Will's two

surviving sisters, Mrs. Horace Havermeyer and Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy, and his brother, Adolph M. Dick, all of Islip, New York.  It reports that his maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Mollenhauer of Bay Shore, NY.  He was also a director of

Best Foods, Inc., Douglas Gibbons & Co., the Eastern States Corporation, the Irving Trust Company, the Norwood and St. Lawrence Railroad, the St. Regis Paper Company, the St. Regis Company, Ltd. of Canada and the St. Regis Timber Company.

His grandfather, William Dick, was a pioneer in the founding of the sugar refining business in the United States.  Will also was a Director of Southside Hospital in Islip.