Physician
Centurion, 1921–1945
Born 19 February 1879 in Sherman, Connecticut
Died 1 June 1945 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Hillside Cemetery
, Sharon, Connecticut
Proposed by Samuel W. Lambert and Robert Jaffray
Elected 4 June 1921 at age forty-two
Century Memorial
William Worthington Herrick. [Born] 1879. Physician.
At the time of his death President of the New York Academy of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, staff member and consultant at many New York hospitals. He was born in a country parsonage, at Sherman, Connecticut—a town on the western border of that state—to this day without a railroad, a post office or a telephone exchange. Three generations of Herricks had preceded him to Yale. Six great uncles had been physicians. He himself said that he had a one-track mind, he aimed to further the cause of medicine through the training of the next generation of physicians. Yet he was an expert cabinet maker and wood carver, a good golfer, a fine musician. A large going farm occupied much of his time and interest. “I am too much in earnest,” he said with Oliver Wendell Holmes, “for either humility or vanity.”
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials