Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. was born on 17. Dec. 1881 at Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of
Charles A. Herbert and
Josephine S. Clayton.
Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. appeared on the census of 27. Apr. 1910 at Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. was shown in the census on 27. Apr. 1910 as a physician. He married
Maud Rue Smith, daughter of
Rev. John Andrew Livingston Smith and
Mary Louisa Johnson.

Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. was shown in the census on 25. Feb. 1920 as an officer in the U. S. Army.
Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. and
Maud Rue Smith appeared on the census of 25. Feb. 1920 at Fort Totten, Queens, Queens County, New York. Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. died on 28. Jun. 1967 at San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, at age 85. William graduated from Rutgers College (Rutgers College was chartered in 1766 and it became Rutgers University in 1924; in the 1950's it became the State University of New Jersey), before attending and graduating first in his class at Jefferson Medical School in Phila., PA . He served his medical residency at Bellvue Hospital in New York. He received his MD sometime around 1908, and married Maud Rue Smith (d/o Rev. John Andrew Livingston Smith of York Co. PA, who officiated the ceremony) in Pennsylvania. Bill met Maud in Philadelphia while she was a nursing student.
William was deemed "Proficient" by The Army Medical School on 31 May 1913. He served as a Lt. Col. at the Hospital Center in Mars-Sur, Allier, France. Bill was promoted to Major 15 May 1917. He was a cavalry man, and in those days, soldiers in the cavalry were required to fulfill a certain amount of riding time, as would a pilot and flight time. Bill hated horses. He would ride the horse out the gates of the fort, "park" it under a tree and read a book.
Sometime after the birth of his daughter Jean, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX (the new family lived in a tiny rented house off the base and the only way into or out of the house was through the kitchen window), the U.S. Army stationed Bill (and his family) in the Phillipines. While there, Bill and Maud miscarried thier second child.
He was later stationed at Fort Totten in Queens, Queens Co., NY according to the 1920 US Fed Census, which shows William D., age 38,b. NJ, an officer in the US Army, father b. NJ, mother b. NJ; wife Maud, age 34 b. UT, father b. PA, mother b. MD; daughter Jean, age 5, b. TX.
Bill was next stationed at Ft. Hayes in Columbus, OH in the early 1930's before transferring to the west coast in 1932/3. He then returned to the Phillipines for the U.S.Army for a few years before returning to the Persidio at San Francisco, CA.
Many memebers of his family were faithful Presbyterians who attended Old Tennent Church (some are still there, in the cemetary), in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Bill was also a Freemason.
Bill and Maud's only child, a girl named Jean McAllister Herbert, was born in 1914, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX, while William was serving in WWI (in France) as an Army field doctor. He received a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Service Medal. He made the Army his career and retired from Letterman Hosp., at the Persideo in San Francisco.
Bill suffered all his life from stomach ailments and ulcers. On 28 June 1968, aged into his eighties, Bill finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer, after having most of his stomach surgically removed (until his death he declined any other medical intervention). His wife Maud was buried by his side at the Golden Gate National Cemetary in So. San Francisco, CA. His daughter Jean is also buried there, as too, a great grand daughter. He loved to garden and fish (shark hunting out in the SF Bay). Bill was 6 feet and 4 inches tall, wore a size 14 shoe (Army had his shoes made to order), had gorgeous light blue eyes and had a very thick head of light brown hair that he began to loose at an early age (his granddau.Peggy, whom he called "Pegasus", was the only one allowed to tease him about the hair loss).
He had a beloved Bull Terrier named Jigs, whom he voluntarilly had euthanized within the two weeks after the birth of his first grandchild, for fear the dog would bite. There are two photographic portraits of Jigs (one is just the dog, the other is Dr. Herbert with Jigs). Bill was known to document dates (he would record the dates of furniture purchases by writing them under or on the back of the piece - some are still visable today) and on the back of the solitary Jigs photo portrait, it is written in Dr. Herbert's hand: "Born 3 Ap 1927 Purchased 18 June 1927 Died 27 Dec 1934".
As of today (2004) it can be said that Bill and Maud had one daughter, three grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and 13 great great grandchildren (31 desce.