Bailey Barton Burritt (31 May 1878 in Monroe County, New York[1] – 18 June 1954) was a United States public health and social welfare advocate known as "the father of the family health movement." He was the chairman of the executive council of the Community Service Society.[2]
^"B. B. Burritt Honored as Health Advocate". The New York Times. October 25, 1944. Retrieved 2009-02-03. Bailey B. Burritt, known as "the father of the family health movement," was the guest of honor last night at a dinner at the Hotel Plaza, arranged on the eve of his retirement as chairman of the executive council of the Community Service Society, with which he has been connected for thirty-one years. He will retire on Nov. 1.
^"Burritt, Ruth Hogarth Dennis". University of Rochester. Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2009-02-03. her marriage to Bailey Barton Burritt (1878-1954) on May 18, 1909. Burritt was a graduate of the University of Rochester (1902) and Columbia (1903), and had a distinguished career in United States Public Health and Social Welfare. The University of Rochester awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in 1945. Ruth (Dennis) and Bailey B. Burritt lived in Yonkers, New York for the entirety of their married life. Together they had six children: Phyllis Louise (1910), Alan Hogarth (1914), Hazel Horton (1915), Bailey Barton, Jr. (1917), Alice Markham (1919), and Ruth Dennis (1921). Ruth (Dennis) Burritt was a poet, with two published volumes, and later in her life she taught herself to paint. She died in March 1960.
