William Walter Wick was born on June 29, 1768, in Southampton, Long Island, New York.
Lemuel was a lieutenant of the 5th company, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk County, New York militia in 1775.
[16][b] William Wick was one of the first two ministers to settle in the territory of the Western Reserve, the other being a Congregational pastor by the name of Joseph Badger.
[20][21] He was the pastor of the Neshannock and Hopewell Presbyterian Churches in Washington County, Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1801.
[20] During that time he traveled back to Youngstown for some services, such as the marriage of Rebecca Bush and Stephen Baldwin on November 3, 1800.
[12] The log cabin church, located in Youngstown at Wood Street and Wick Avenue, was the oldest house of worship in the Reserve,[20][21][e] perhaps built in 1802[6] or 1805.
[12] While leading the Youngstown church, he established the first formal religious organization in Poland, Ohio, on May 3, 1802.
[25][c] Wick provided assistance in the founding of the Church of Christ in Warren on November 19, 1803.
[26] Wick was a missionary for the Connecticut Society and received his last commission for one year on January 17, 1815.
[2] He taught school in the log cabin in Youngstown, which was attended by William Holmes McGuffey and his sister Jane,[27] who lived on a farm about five miles away in Coitsville, Ohio.
[27][28] William and Jane studied and boarded with the Wick family during the winter months, when they were not needed to work on the farm.
[31] His original gravestone stated that he was "a respectable and punctual member of the judicature of the church, lived much beloved and died much lamented.