Herrick, Samuel
lawyer, congressman, was born April 14, 1779, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He moved to Zanesville, Ohio; and was prosecuting attorney for the county; and soon after that was appointed United States district attorney for Ohio. In 1812 he was appointed one of a board of commissioners for settling the northwestern boundary line; and in the autumn of that year succeeded Lewis Cass as prosecuting attorney for Muskingum county. In 1814 he was appointed to the same office in Licking county. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1817 to 1821. In 1829 he was appointed United States district attorney for Ohio.
He died in December, 1851.