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- Nancy’s 1st cousin, twice removed.
Suzie, Peter, Cindy’s 1st cousin, three times removed.
In 1910 was director at Institute for the Feeble-minded, Orillia.
One source: "THE CANADIAN MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TIME: A Hand-book of Canadian Biograpy of Living Characters. Toronto 1912, copy obtained from the Genealogical Forum in Portland, OR. William Choate, Physician, Onmt. public service.
Elementary public and high school, Port Hope and Lindsay. Married Oct. 1900, Nellie J. (daughter of Lewis Williams, Johnstown, PA. M.B. (Toronto Univ.) 1890, successfully followed the practice of his prof. at Lindsay, since then has been successively asst. physician Institute for the Feeble-minded, Orillia, Ont.; Assistant Superintendent Hospital for the Insane, Toronto, has also been on the staff of the several hospitals for the insane in Ontario, more recently Rockwood Hosp. Kingston, and is demon. in psychiatry, Toronto Univ.; appointed medical director, Institute for the Feeble-minded, Orillia, Oct. 1910, and active and corr. member of several med, scien, and hist. socs and an occasional contributor to their proceedings or trans--Hospital for the Feeble-Minded, Orillia, Ont
Was superintendent of Ontario Hosp. in Cobourg 1927-1932. Source: The Canadian Biographical Dictionary: Canada’s oldst practitioner in the field of psychiatry, Dr. William Choate Herriman, 78, who had served on the staffs of most of Ontario’s mental hospital. At the time of his retirement in July 1933, he was medical superintendent of the Ontario Hospital, 999 Queen St. W. Toronto.
He was the third generatio of his family to practice medicine. His father was instrumental in the founding of Queen’s University Medical School. Dr. Herriman belonged to one of the most prominent of the later U.E.L. families of the Port Hope-Cobourg district.
He graduated from the U. of Toronto in 1890 and practiced with his father for a short time in Lindsay. Keenly interested in psychiatry, he decided to make that branch of science his life work, and he served for nearly 40 years in that field. He took a leading part in the introduction in Canada of the continuous path and other modes of treatment of mental illness. He was also active in the advancement of social reforms.
Dr. Herriman ha held positions as assistant physician at Ontario Hospitals at Orillia, Hamilton and Kingston; superintendent at Mimico and Toronto, medical director at Orillia and superintendent at Cobourg. Before his retirement he returned to Toronto as medical superintendent of the hospital.
Dr. Herriman was a member of Durham County Old Boys’ Association and the United Church. As an alienist he gave expert evidence at many murder trials of nationwide interest, including the famous Morrison trial at Whitby. Sentenced to serve the remainder of his life in Kingston Penitentiary, William Morrison who had been convicted of manslaughter in the killing of his wife, it was believed owed his life to the evidence given by Dr. Herriman.
His obituary said he was survived by his daughter, Dorothy Choate Herriman, known in Canadian literary circles.
Funeral in Toronto; Interment in Port Hope.
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