Ethel T. Wead Mick

Who was Ethel T. Wead Mick?

Ethel Theresa Wead Mick is the founder of the Masonic girls' organization The International Order of Job's Daughters and served as its first Supreme Guardian.

She was born in Atlantic, Iowa to William Henry Wead and Elizabeth Delight Hutchinson Wead, the youngest of four siblings. She was brought up in a close-knit, very religious family. Her mother read stories from the Bible every evening and often made reference to the Book of Job, hoping that her daughters would become "as fair as the daughters of Job". This influence eventually resulted in the founding of the Order of Job's Daughters in 1920, so named in honor of her mother. The group became International in 1931 when a bethel opened in British Columbia, Canada.

Wead met William Mick while attending Creighton Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska. They were married in May 1904 and had two daughters, Ethel and Ruth. She enjoyed a variety of hobbies including oil painting, singing, reading, traveling and participating in several different fraternal organizations and civic clubs. She died in Cleveland, Ohio, and is buried in Omaha.