Myron T. Herrick was born in Huntington Township in 1854 and lived there until age 12. A respected Cleveland attorney and businessman, Herrick was a friend and confidant to Presidents McKinley, Taft, and Harding.

Herrick started out in politics on the Cleveland City Council. He then served as Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906. His public service career culminated with the appointment of ambassador to France. Herrick's first appointment lasted from 1912 through the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Enormously popular with the French people and government, Herrick was awarded the French Legion of Honor Cross, and a road was named after him in Paris.

He served as ambassador to France again from 1921 until his death in 1929.