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 HEATON

HEATWOLE

was erected into the " Lordship and Manor of Scarsdale " in 1701. He was mayor of New York, 1711-14; judge of admiralty for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and " surveyor-general of customs for the eastern district of North America," 1715-21. He was the first American member of the Society for the propagacion of the gospel in foreign parts, and organized several parishes in Westchester county. He introduced episcopacy into Connecticut in 1707-08, and when he visited the new parishes with the Rev. George Morrison, rector of the parish of Rye, N.Y., he went fully armed, as a means of personal safety from assault. He left important historical papers of great value on matters civil and ecclesiastical. He died in New York city, Feb. 28, 1721.

HEATON, Augustus George, painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 28, 1844; son of Augustus and Rosabella (Crean) Heaton; grand- son of John and Elizabeth (Goodyear) Heaton of New Haven, Conn., and of John Crean of Phila- delphia, Pa., and a descendant of the Eaton fam- ily, who came from England in the second trip of the Mayflower, the " H " being subsequently added to the name He studied at the Academy of fine arts, Philadelphia, and relinquished a college education to follow art. He was instructed in painting by Edward Moran in 1859 and by P. F. Rothermel, 1860-03; and in 1863 on going to Europe, he was entrusted by the Union League club of Philadelphia to deliver to John Bright, Richard Cobden, and other distinguished friends of America, complimentary parchments and med- als. He spent a month in England and in Decem- ber, 1863, became the first entered U.S. .student in the Ecole des beaux arts, Paris, under Cabanel, where he remained until 1865, travelling during the summers in Switzerland, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and on the Rhine. He returned to Philadelphia in 1865, and was leading professor of the School of design for women there, 1865-67. He removed to New York in 1874, and opened a studio, was married to Adelaide, daughter of Almon W. Griswold, and studied under Bonnat in Paris, 1878-82. He began his famous painting, " The Recall of Columbus," in Spain in the spring of 1881, completing it in Paris and Rome. This was purchased by congTess for the National capitol in 1833, and was sent by congress to the Colum- bian exposition at Chicago in 1893, together with his portraits of MadLson and Upshur, from the department of state. It was afterward hung in the senate wing of the U.S. capitol building at Washington. He spent the winter of 1882-83 in Italy, returning to the United States and settling in Washington, D.C., in 1884. He painted pictures from frontier and Indian life in the west, 1896- 99. As a numismatist he owned a complete col- lection of U.S. S3 and 81 gold pieces of all tlie five

mints in which they were coined, only one other such collection being in existence. He was sec- retary of the Literary society of Washington; associate member of the Philadelphia acad- emy of fine arts; president of the Philadelphia sketch club ; an original member of the Art club, Philadelphia; a vice-president of the Society of Washington artists; a member of the National geographical society, the Historical societies of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the Cosmos and Metropolitan clubs; a member of the Stanley club in Paris, and secretary of the Pen and Pencil and Ramblers" clubs. He was president of the American numismatic a.ssociation. 1894-96. His principal paintings include The " First Mission of Washington (1862) ; Columbia's Night Watch (1866); Bathing Hour at Trouville (Salon, 1880); portraits of Emma Nevada (1883), James O'Gala- ghan (Salon, 1882), Sculptor Ives (1883), Bishop Bowman, for Cornell college, Iowa (1885); por- trait group of Mr. Tulane and Senator Gibson, for Tulane university, New Orleans, La. (1886) ; Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Davis, in Memorial Hall, Ne%v Orleans (1892); and The Promoters of the New Congressional Library, a life sized group composed of eighteen prominent statesmen (1888). His Becall of Columbus is upon the Columbian 50c stamp of the 1893 series, and his Hardships of Emigration upon the 10c stamp of the Omaha series of 1898. He exhibited at the Centennial exhibition of 1876, and frequentlj' in New York, Philadelphia and Washington. He published jjoenis, letters of travel, and a Treatise on the Coin- age of the United States Branch JJints (1893), the only authoritative work on branch mint coinage.

HEATON, David, representative, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, March 10, 1823. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Middletown, Ohio, where he edited the Middletown Herald. In 1855 he was elected from the second Ohio district a senator in the 52d general assembly, 1856-58, but resigned before the completion of his term to remove to Minnesota. He served as a senator in the 3d, 4th and 5tli legislatures of that state. 1861- 02-63. and in 1863 was appointed b\- Secretary Chase special agent of the treasury de]>artment and U.S. depositary at Newbern, N.C., in which city he made his home He was a member of the constitutional convention of North Carolina in 1867 and was the author of the Republican platform adopted at Raleigh in March of that year. He was a representative from North Caro- lina in the 40th congress, 1869-70. He died in Washington. DC. June 25. 1870.

HEATWOLE, Joel Prescott, representative, was born in Waterford, Ind., Aug. 22, 1856; son of Henry and Barbara (Culp) Heatwole: grandson of David Heatwole ; and great grandson of Ma- thias Heatwole, who came to America fi-om Ger-