Henry F. Dimock

Who was Henry F. Dimock?

Henry F. Dimock was a lawyer in New York City who was closely associated with the Whitney family business interests.

Dimock was born in South Coventry, Connecticut, the son of Timothy and Laura F. Dimock. The family were descended from Thomas Dimock, who came from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1637, and later settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Henry Dimock was a distant cousin of Ira Dimock, silk manufacturer, and Dr. Susan Dimock, early female physician who perished in the wreck of the SS Schiller in the Scilly Islands.

He was graduated from Yale University in 1863, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Harvard Law School in 1865. In the latter year he commenced the practice of law in New York City.

He married Susan Collins Whitney, whose siblings included Henry Melville Whitney, industrialist; William Collins Whitney, financier and Secretary of the Navy: and Lucy Collins "Lily" Whitney, wife of banker Charles T. Barney. They resided in New York City at 25 60th Street, corner of Madison Avenue, and also had a summer home at Bar Harbor, Maine. Henry and Susan Dimock were the parents of a daughter, Susan M.