Lick, James

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Lick, James (1796–1876) financier, philanthropist; born in Fredericksburg, Pa. A piano-maker by training, he spent many years in South America (1820–37) and then moved to San Francisco. He made a fortune in the real estate boom there and bequeathed much of his fortune to public purposes; most notably he left $700,000 to produce the most powerful telescope made to that date, and to house it he founded the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara, Calif.

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