Herrick, Robert Welch (1868-1938) Also known as: Smith, Austin

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James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, June 14, 1901

James Weber Linn to Jane Addams, June 23, 1901

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 4, 1915

Minutes of League of Free Nations Association Meeting, April 9, 1920

Problems of Contemporary Thought, September 1923-June 1924

Robert Herrick to Jane Addams, May 19, 1902

Jane Addams to Robert Welch Herrick, October 20, 1904

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Birth Date

1868-04-21

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1938-12-23

Birthplace

Cambridge, MA

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Robert Herrick, born in 1868 in Massachusetts, published his first work while attending Harvard in the Harvard Advocate and the Harvard Monthly. Herrick became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating from Harvard, and later at the University of Chicago. He normally spent part of his year at the University, and the other part writing and traveling. He published short stories, novels, newspaper columns, and several textbooks and historical books, sometimes under the pseudonym Austin Smith. In 1935 he was briefly appointed Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands, and later died there in 1938.