Henry Burt Herrick, MD
(1864-1918)
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Henry Burt Herrick, MD
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Henry Burt Herrick, MD
Horace Avery Herrick, father of Henry Burt Herrick, MD
Mary Williams Langley Herrick, first wife of Henry Burt Herrick, MD
Frances Irene Herrick Brainerd, daughter of Henry Burt Herrick, MD
Aletta Patterson Horn Herrick, second wife of Henry Burt Herrick, MD
Henry Burt Herrick, MD
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Birth: 12/26/1864, Chesterland, Ohio
Birth: 12/26/1864, Chesterland, Ohio
Address: 2531 Euclid Ave. and The Haddam at Euclid Ave. and E. 105th St., Cleveland, OH [the latter an upscale apartment hotel in the Doan's Corners neighborhood]
Demographics: Henry Burt Herrick, a physician and surgeon, appears to have joined the war effort in WWI by offering his medical expertise. On 5/12/1917, he applied for a passport for the stated purpose of performing medical service in hospitals in England and France. He planned to sail on 5/19/1917 from New York aboard the SS Chicago. Myron T. Herrick, a cousin, who was the Ambassador to France from 1912-1914 and a prominent Cleveland lawyer, businessman, politician, and diplomat, wrote a letter of commendation for Dr. Herrick as part of his passport application. Dr. Herrick had graduated from Adelbert College at Western Reserve University in 1888 and from the affiliated Cleveland Medical College in 1891. He was married and had a teenage daughter at the time of his WWI service. Per ancestry.com and an announcement in the New York Times on 4/11/1918, Henry Burt Herrick married Aletta Patterson Horn in June, 1918 in Brest, France, the same month he died. Mrs. Horn was a widow from New York and New Jersey. No divorce records were found for Dr. Henry Burt Herrick or his wife Mary Williams Langley Herrick.
Appearance: see photo at left
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft and enlistment dates apparently not applicable to the war service of a physician; rank Captain A.R.C. [American Red Cross].
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft and enlistment dates apparently not applicable to the war service of a physician; rank Captain A.R.C. [American Red Cross].
[During WWI, Cleveland doctors mobilized through the American Red Cross to form US Army Base Hospital No. 4 (the Lakeside Unit), which was the first American medical unit to deploy to France in May, 1917. It is not known whether Dr. Henry Burt Herrick was part of this effort, but he would have certainly been aware of it. His cousin, former Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick, was a chief organizer of the formation of the Lakeside Unit.]
[During WWI, Cleveland doctors mobilized through the American Red Cross to form US Army Base Hospital No. 4 (the Lakeside Unit), which was the first American medical unit to deploy to France in May, 1917. It is not known whether Dr. Henry Burt Herrick was part of this effort, but he would have certainly been aware of it. His cousin, former Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick, was a chief organizer of the formation of the Lakeside Unit.]
Service Number: no service number found
Deployment: see demographics section above regarding his travel to Europe
Action: see description above of his planned medical service
Death: June 16, 1918 at Brest, Bretagne, France at age 53; cause of death Died of Disease [not specified]
Death: June 16, 1918 at Brest, Bretagne, France at age 53; cause of death Died of Disease [not specified]
Burial: Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France, Plot D Row 21 Grave 17
Burial: Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France, Plot D Row 21 Grave 17
Next of Kin: not listed as such
Additional Information: Wife: Mary Williams Langley (1872-1948), born Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, father a chemistry professor, married in Cleveland in 1896, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Children: Frances Irene Herrick Brainerd (1900-1989); Father: Horace Avery Herrick (1827-1914), born Cummington, Massachusetts, occupation Farmer, buried Chester Cemetery, Chesterland, OH; Mother: Harmony M. Norton Herrick (1828-1899), had at least 3 children, buried Chester Cemetery, Chesterland, OH; Siblings: Vernon Avery Herrick (1857-1929); Almyra Herrick Hovey (1869-1953). Sibling list may be incomplete.
Gravestone, Henry Burt Herrick, MD, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France
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