Herbert Pope was born in Cleaveland, Ohio on Dec 16, 1870, the son of John Lang and Frances Emily (Whipple) Pope. Pope married Maud Isabel Perry on December 5, 1900. In 1912, Maud Pope died. Pope remarried four years later. Herbert Pope's brother, Arthur Pope, a 1901 Harvard College graduate, was a Harvard professor of fine arts and director of the Fogg Museum.
Pope graduated from Harvard College in 1897 and obtained a LL.B. from Harvard Law School. Immediately after graduation he entered the law offices of Webster and Cook, in Cleaveland, Ohio. However, Pope soon left his hometown for Chicago, Illinois, where he worked with Herrick, Allen, Boyeson and Martin. Later in life, Pope worked with attorneys Rush C. Butler, James J. Forstall, and Frank E. Harkness.
In addition to his legal practice, Pope wrote several articles, which were published in the Harvard Law Review and Illinois Law Review including: "Municipal Contracts and the Regulation of Rates," (1902), "The Legal Aspect of Monopoly," (1907), and "Uncommon Law and the Common Man."
From the guide to the Papers, 1899-1949, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University.)
