Henry Clay Frick II
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October 18, 1919
Henry Clay Frick II | |
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| Born | Henry Clay Frick II October 18, 1919 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 9, 2007 (aged 87) Alpine, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other names | Clay Frick |
| Education | St. Paul's School |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, professor |
| Spouses | Jane Allison Coates
(m. 1945; div. 1978)Emily Troth du Pont (m. 1997) |
| Children | 5 |
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Henry Clay Frick II (October 18, 1919 – February 9, 2007) colloquially Clay Frick[1] was an American physician and professor of medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.[2]
Henry Clay Frick II was born on October 18, 1919 in New York City, the son of paleontologist Childs Frick (1883–1965) and his wife, Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953), and a grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).
Dr. Frick attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; graduated from Princeton University in 1942; and graduated from the medical school at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1944. After World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps with the rank of captain. Dr. Frick practiced medicine in New York City, and later became a professor of clinical obstetrics at Columbia, and an oncologist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. In the 1960s, he volunteered for two tours of duty in the Vietnam War during which he served in a field hospital.
Dr. Frick was a trustee and board president of New York's Frick Collection and chairman of his aunt's Helen Clay Frick Foundation. In this later capacity he directed the restoration, according to his aunt's wishes, of the Frick family's Pittsburgh estate, Clayton. He also was a trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Museum of Natural History.
