I found him!

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19050430.2.40&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

Engineer/inventor. Based out of Illinois but the above news article places him in Los Angeles in 1905. There in the west to demonstrate his new invention (described in the above article; having to do with making compasses more accurate).

The note about Mayan Stela 11 (in the proportional divider case that I purchased with Herrickā€™s name) I contend, is still some discovery he made about Mayan support columns (called Stelae [plural] or Stela [singular]). Nobody would have dialed-in such a precise pivot point ending in .25 without immense purpose.