The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-31
DEATH or EDwARD HEAroS.

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 Afternoon at th. Good AEe of Eighty -four
 A Sketch of His Carscr.
 Mir. Edward Heatcn. one of the best beloved and esteemed townsmen Of New Haven. died al his home on York street yesterday. He passed away at about quarter past o'clock. Ills demise will be mourned by great many In our city who kpew of his noble nature and large heart Mir Heaton was taken i'll about six months ago with throat difficulty. which developed into a cancer and despite the best medical and surgical advice and care the disease made headway and for some months It had been known to his family that 1t was incurable. The deceased was, however. out of doors about week ago. Toward the last his suffering was intense and for the last day or two before his death he was unconscious.
 The deceased was a native of New Haven, born August g. 1911. and was therefore in his eighty fourth year at his death, Such. however. was his vigor, both bodily and mentally, that he seemed to be a man of sixty. His step. until his illness came, was elastic. his manner brisk and wholesome. hIs figure unbent and his eyes undimmed. His lavish black hair showed no signs of the frosting of age until within a year or so. He was alert and active in body and a most interesting man in conversation. with d mental store house filled with valuable "reminiscences and thoroughly equipped with knowl- edge of the worlds events of to-day. He was philanthropist and many of our benevolent institutions lose in him a benefactor. Hundreds were the char ities by him quietly and unostenta- tiously bestowed. He was an unosten- tious man, caring naught for pomp or show, but a man with heart alive to every genuine cry from the needy and to every cause which aimed to relieve distress, or otherwise benefit his fel- low man.
 MT. .Heaton's boyhood was spent here. Here he attended private school and here he learned the sterling lessons of truth, honor and love for others. In his early young manhood he gave evil dence of that business ability which ever characterized him through life. When young man he was engaged in business in New Haven. for some time having as a partner, the late ex-Post- master Edward A. Mitchell. Later he was in the hardware business in Phila- delphia. Thence he removed to New Orleans, where he occupied for many years prominent position as financial agent in the south for noted firms in Great Britain. This ,aosjt,on he held untfi tnerSVar or tst, rcpesirun prUKg out Then, theugh9he had many busi- ness and social ties in the south, he gave up his business interests there and returned to the north, his heart beating true to the music of the union. Since his return to this city he had been engaged in various important business enterprises. MT. Heaton had well prospered in business and, ac- cumulated handsome fortune, but years ago he stopped accommodating, holding that there was nothing to be gained in piling up needless wealth and he became one of our most liberal givers to the needy and to charitable and benevolent objects.
 Deceased was a son of John Heaton, jr., one of the prominent West Indian shipping merchants of New Haven in the early part of the present century, and whose large fortune was swept away in consequence of. the raids made upon American commerce during that period. The mother of the deceased was Elizabeth Goodyear, daughter of Joel Goodyear. and a granddaughter of Theophilus Goodyear of Revolutionary fame
 MT. Heaton was one of the very few that are. left of his generations type of the old school of American gentle I men, and he was gentleman not only in appearance and by nature, but by in- 'herftance, for he was descended from many of the most prominent men of the | early Puritan days, among them being the Rev. Nicholas Street, who was Davenport's colleague in the early days of the First church of New Haven; Stephen Goodyear, the first deputy gov- ernor of the New Haven colony; Thomas Wells, governor of the Connecticut colony; and the names of others of his ancestors, John Hollister, Richard Treat, William Gibbard, Thomas Mun- l son, Edmund Tapp, Andrew Ward and l William Beardsley are familiar ones in | the early history of the New Haven and | the Connecticut colonies.
 MT. Heaton was married in 1854 to | New Hampshire lady, Miss Mary Louisa I Jennison, who died in 1883. She was | wife and mother greatly beloved. They were married in New Orleans. MT. Heaton leaves three children to deebly mourn his loss, MT. John Edward Heaton, Mrs. John Brewster Fitch and l Charles A. Heaton. s
 The deceased was a member of St. Thomas church. The funeral services will be held at his late residence, No. 2B York street, Wednesday afternoon. January 2. at 2:30 o'clock. ,
 Church If the Messiah.
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