J. HERRICK

Dr. J. Herrick, born in 1796, was a native of New York and for some years enjoyed a successful practice in one of the southern states. With Capt. John C. Fremont he went to Mexico and from there to California. In California he engaged in speculation and lost his property and his health.

Coming to the Islands sometime in 1853, he settled in the South Kona district of Hawaii and soon afterwards married. Dr. Herrick was in active practice for some 13 years, part of which time he was the only physician for the three districts of North and South Kona and Kau. In 1861 the doctor was an unsuccessful candidate for Representative from South Kona.

During his last two years he was confined to bed suffering from rheumatism, and he died at South Kona on October 24, 1868, at the age of 72.

An article about Dr. Herrick in the "Pacific Commercial Advertiser" says, "his home was ever open to the stranger; he had a large and generous heart".

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