Background
Burritt, Bailey Barton was born on May 31, 1878 in Monroe County, New York, United States. Son of Melville C. and Miranda H. (Horton) Burritt.
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Bailey Barton Burritt
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Bachelor of Arts, Univercity or Rochester, 1902. A.M., Columbia University, 1903. Doctor of Laws, University of Rochester, 1945.
Career
Assistant secretary State Charities Aid assosiation, New York City, 1908-1913. Secretary Committee on Criminal Courts, Charity Organisation Society, New York City, 1911-1913. Director Department Social Welfare, New York Association for Improving Condition of the Poor, 1913-1914.
General director same, 1914-1939. Chairman, executive council, Community Service Society, 1939-1944 (member board trustees). Executive secretary Health Maintenance Committee, since 1944.
Executive director National Health Council, 1947-1948. Member board directors Judson Health Center, Health Council of Greater of New York. Member Executive Committee New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.
Chairman of the executive committee American Social Hygiene Association. Appointed captain American Red Cross, July 1918. Served as director and organized Home Service, American Red Cross in France, July 1, 1918-January 1, 1919.
Membership
Member economic advisory committee President Harding’s Conference on Unemployment, 1921. Member Westchester County Governor Commission, 1923-1924, which prepared new charter. Member President Hoover’s Committee on Child Health and Protection.
Member President Roosevelt’s White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, 1939-1940. Member Mayor La Guardia’s Commision on Merging Emergency Relief Bureau with the Department of Public Welfare. Member American Academy Political and Social Science, National Conference Social Work, Theta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Club: National Arts (New York).
Connections
Married Ruth H. Dennis, May 1909. Children: Phyllis, Alan, Hazel, Bailey Barton, Alice, Ruth.
