Henry Clay Frick II

Henry Clay Frick II (October 18, 1919 – February 9, 2007) was an American physician and professor of medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Biography

Dr. Frick was born on October 18, 1919 in New York City, the son of paleontologistChilds Frick (1883–1965) and his wife, Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953). He was a grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).

He attended St. Paul's School. In 1942 he graduated from Princeton University and then from the medical school in 1944 at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. After World War II he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and became a captain. Frick practiced medicine in New York, and later became a professor of clinical obstetrics at Columbia and an oncologist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. During the 1960s he voluntarily served two tours of duty in a field hospital during the Vietnam War.

Frick was a trustee and board president of New York's Frick Collection and chairman of his aunt's Helen Clay Frick Foundation. In this later capacity he directed the restoration, according to his aunt's wishes, of the Frick family's Pittsburgh estate, Clayton. He also was a trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Museum of Natural History.

He died at age 87 on February 9, 2007, at his Alpine, New Jersey home.

Sources

• Sanger, Martha Frick Symington (1998). Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-7892-0500-9.
• Sanger, Martha Frick Symington (2007). Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822943419.