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 paleontologist Childs 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).

Dr. Frick attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; graduated from Princeton University in 1942; and graduated from the medical school at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1944. After World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and became a captain. Dr. Frick practiced medicine in New York City, 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.

Dr. 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.

Frick died at the age of 87 on February 9, 2007 at his home in Alpine, New Jersey.

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.