Re: 9Harrison Edgar HERRICK, 8Jarius S., 7Azor Cole, 6John Groves, 5Joseph, 4Joseph, 3Samuel, 2Henry, 1Henerie Harrison Edgar HERRICK s/o Jarius S. HERRICK & Amanda GOWER b. 6 Feb 1857 Oasis, Waushara Co., Wisconsin d. 13 July 1942 Nekoosa, Wood Co., WIsconsin m. 9 Mar 1883 Mary Adel KING d/o Charles & Elizabeth KING @ Wisconsin Rapids, Wood Co., Wisconsin. She died 1936. son Austin Clyde HERRICK son Charles Keith HERRICK unnamed third child died young. dsp. Author: <http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SEQ=20060121014949&PID=27773&SA=Jones,+George+O.>Jones, George O. Title: History of Wood County, Wisconsin / compiled by George O. Jones, Norman S. McVean and others. Publisher: Minneapolis : H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1923. Harrison E. HERRICK, popular proprietor of the Herrick House at Nekoosa, was born in Waushara Co., Wis., 6 Feb 1857, son of Jeries S. and Amanda HERRICK, natives of Pennsylvania and Maine respectively. The HERRICK family were descended from the Danish ERICKS, who invaded Great Britain during the reign of Alfred. Azor HERRICK, grandfather of Harrison, was the son of John Herrick and Elizabeth BRAY, who settled in Poland, Maine, in 1772. Jeries HERRICK, father of Harrison, was born and reared in Poland, Maine, residing there until 1851, when he came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in Big Prairie, Waushara County, operating his farm and doing lumbering, and during the spring and summer rafting lumber to St. Louis. He later moved to Rudolph and was employed in a stave factory, and from there went to Merrill, this state, where he resided until his death 26 January 1918, and where his widow still makes her home. They were the parents of three children. Harrison E. HERRICK was raised on the farm, receiving his education in the district school. He remained at home assisting with the farm work until he was 18; during summer months he wlrked in the harvest fields, and during the winters, until her was 27, worked in the lumber woods. In 1884 he moved to Rudolph <Wood Co., Wi> and was employed by the stave mill, and while there pruchased 120 acres of wild land, which, after partly clearing, he sold, and again went into the woods logging. In 1893 he came to Nekoosa and worked on the dam until September. His family having joined him there, on 20 September 1893, they opened a boarding house, and in 1894 erected a substantial hotel building, which they have since conducted as Herrick House. Mr. HERRICK was married at Rudolph 9 March 1883 to Mary KING daughter of Charles and Elizabeth KING, who were old settlers of Rudolph. Mr. & Mrs. HERRICK have two sons, Clyde and Charles booth living at Nekoosa. Besides his hotel, interests Mr. HERRICK is a stockholder in the Nekoosa State Bank. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen and the Equitable Fraternal Union. Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, 13 July 1942 H. E. HERRICK, 85, Dies at Nekoosa Harrison Edgar HERRICK, the first mayor of Nekoosa after its city government was organized and Nekoosa's oldest resident, died this morning at his home, 300 Market Street, at 3:15r o'clock. He was 85. Funeral Wednesday. Death followed an illness of two days, although he had been in poor health for some time. Funeral services will be held Wednesday from the home to the Congregational church at 2 p.m. The Rev. C. A. O'NEILL will officiate at the rites and burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery at Wisconsin Rapids. Mr. HERRICK, known familiarly as "Hat", was a native of central Wisconsin and spent all his life in this section. He was born in Waushara County on 6 February 1857 son of Jarius and Amanda <GOWER> HERRICK who were among that county's early settlers. Operated Hotel 50 years. He was married to Mary Adel KING in Wisconsin Rapids, 9 March 1883, and ten years later opened the Herrick House at Nekoosa. He continued to operate the hotel until his death. He was among the workmen who helped build the Nekoosa dam on the Wisconsin River. He served two terms as president of Nekoosa when the community was a village and followed that service with one term as mayor when the city form was adopted. Mrs. HERRICK died in 1936. Two of their three children, Austin Clyde and Charles Keith, both of Nekoosa, survive. Also surviving are a grandson, Jere Wayne HERRICK, and two sisters, Mrs. John AKEY, Minocqua, and Mrs. Richard AKEY, Merrill. The body will be taken to the HERRICK home Tuesday afternoon to lie until time of services, and friends may pay their respects there. Voss Funeral service is in charge of arrangements james wall