Calhoun County IA Archives Biographies.....Herrick, T. B. 1886 - 
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Author: Iowa Its History and Tradition

IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
 
T. B. HERRICK

The medical profession has a worthy representative in Manson, Calhoun  county, 
in the person of Dr. Thomas B. Herrick, who since coming here in 1914  has 
risen in the confidence and esteem of the public, building up a large  practice 
and gaining a high place in the medical ranks of his county.  Dr.  Herrick was 
born in Humboldt, Iowa, on the 11th of April, 1886, and is a son of  Fred G. 
and Dora L. (Connor) Herrick, the former a native of Minnesota and the  latter 
of Humboldt county, Iowa.  The father was for many years a traveling  
salesman for a wholesale hardware firm of Minneapolis, but after his marriage he  
made his home in Humboldt, where his death occurred in 1907, at the age of  
forty-six years.  The mother is still living in Humboldt.

Thomas B. Herrick attended the public schools of Humboldt, graduating  from 
high school in 1903, and then enlisted in the United States navy, in which  he 
served three years.  In 1908 he entered the medical school of the  University 
of Iowa, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of  Medicine, 
in 1912.  He engaged in the practice of his profession in  partnership with a 
brother at Gilmore City, Pocahontas county, Iowa, where he  remained two 
years, and in 1914 came to Manson, where he has remained to the  present time, 
establishing a splendid reputation as an able and skilled  physician and surgeon 
and building up a large practice.  During the World  war Dr. Herrick enlisted 
as a medical officer in the English army, with which he  served thirteen months 
overseas.  He was commissioned a first lieutenant  and assigned to the First 
Battalion of the Lancastershire Fusiliers,  Twenty-ninth Division.  He 
received a captain's commission and on the  expiration of his service returned
to Manson and resumed his practice.

Dr. Herrick has been married twice - first, on October 26, 1908, to  Miss 
Louise Hawkins, of Dakota City, Nebraska, to which union was born a  daughter, 
Opal D., who is now a student in St. Angela's Institute, at Carroll,  Iowa.  On 
August 23, 1924, the Doctor was married to Miss Inez H. Clark, of  Fort Dodge, 
Iowa, and they are the parents of a daughter, Jeanne Marie.  Dr. Herrick is a 
member of Morning Light Lodge, No. 384,  Ancient  Free and Accepted Masons of 
Manson, and Manson Chapter, No. 131, Royal Arch  Masons, as well as of the 
Manson Golf Club.  He is now serving as city  health officer.  Strong mentality, 
close application, thorough mastery of  the great underlying principles of 
his profession and the ability to apply  theory to practice n the treatment of 
diseases have been the contributing  elements to his success, in addition to 
which is a strong individuality that has  made a definite impression on all with 
whom he has come into contact.  He  is devoted to his calling and commands 
the respect of his fellow  citizens.

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