D Cady Herrick April 12, 1846 Esperance, New York Esperance , Schoharie County, New York February 21, 1926 was an American lawyer and politician. Name He was baptized Cady Herrick , but his father thought it better to add an initial hyphened D to the name to avoid class room jokes, like calling the boy Katie. Thus the initial did not stand for any given name, and the first name should be pronounced Dee CAY dee. The press took a long time to get aware of the rather elaborate construction of the name, and printed mostly D. Cady Herrick , the initial with a Full stop period , which led to the general belief that the initial stood indeed for an abbreviated first name. Many people thought it was Daniel, after Daniel Cady , and the New York Times printed in 1904 Donald Cady Herrick as the Democratic nominee for Governor. He was not the first New York politician to use an extra D which did not stand for any name, Daniel D. Tompkins added the middle initial to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins while studying at Columbia College. Life He was the son of Jonathan Herrick, a merchant, and Harriet Herrick. In 1852, the family removed to Albany, New York . He was graduated from the Albany Classical Institute, and then studied law in the office of Lyman Tremain and Rufus Wheeler Peckham 1809 1873 Rufus W. Peckham, Sr. . They sent him to Albany Law School where he was a classmate of William McKinley . He graduated in 1868, and was admitted to the bar. In 1874, he married Orissa H. Salisbury d. 1925 , and they had three children. In 1877, Herrick was defeated for District Attorney of Albany County, New York Albany County , but in 1880 was re nominated and elected, and re elected in 1883. At that time he became the chief lieutenant of Daniel Manning , the United States Democratic Party Democratic boss of Albany. When Manning removed to Washington, D.C. upon his appointment as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1885, Herrick became the Democratic boss of Albany and conti ... more details
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