Background
Myrick, Herbert was born on August 20, 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry L. and Lucy Caroline (Whittemore) Myrick.
Myrick, Herbert was born on August 20, 1860 in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry L. and Lucy Caroline (Whittemore) Myrick.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Boston University, 1882.
Foreign many years president Phelps Public Company and editor-in-chief of its weekly, New England Homestead, Springfield, Massachusetts. President American Education Press, public Current Events. Chairman The Bushnell Company, public Dakota Farmer.
Public Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1900-1911.
Founder Good Housekeeping Institute Public and editor American Agriculturist (New York), Orange Judd Farmer (Chicago), 1888-1920, Southern Farming (Atlanta), 1912-1917, Farm and Home, Chicago and Springfield, 1880-1925. Founded, 1910, School of Agriculture, Domestic Science and Manual Training: founded, 1901, Farmers’ Political League (beginning of farm bloc).
Developed metallic system for drawing fibre of cotton, and president Metallic Drawing Roll Company, 1891-1923. An original advocate of coöp. dairying, tariff on farm products, federal system agricultural experiment stations, rural free delivery, coöp. buying and selling by farmers, federal farm loan act, and various other movements in behalf of education and agriculture.
Erected Myrick Building, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1907-1908, and presented Broadway to that city.
Lectured throughout United States to establish Federal Land Bank system. Director at large Federal Land Bank of Springfield. Director Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Springfield.
Chairman The Americas Common for The Riff, leading the international organization, Friends of The Riff, 1926.
Author: Coöperative Finance, 1912. The Federal Farm Loan System, 1916.
Financing Second Mortgages (as a means whereby tenants may own their farms), 1920. Rural Credits System of United States, 1922.
How to Use the Agricultural Credits Acting of March 4, 1923.
Poems by Mother and Son, 1926. Making the Boy into a Citizen (autobiography of first 21 years), 1926. His periodical, Farm and Home, was the first in the world to provide (coöperating with Westinghouse) a universal radiophone service to its subscribers throughout United States, 1921.
Owner of Wisset Farms, 600 acres.
Home: Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Married Elvira Lawrence Kenson. Children: Cristine, Helen L., Donald.