Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-17
AFFINITY RO1
 WRECKS FINE CAREER
pr, George D. Heron, For mehy of Iowa, Forced Into SecIuSion With His Affinity In Small Italian Suburb.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Exiled by the contumely of his fellow men, crushed in health and spirit by his failure 10 reform society and re- ngion and cheered only by the minis tration of the affinity" for whom he abandoned wife and children and sac
 rificed public respect. Dr Gearge D.. Heron the most noted of modern socialists to set the example followed by the eccentrict artist, Ferdinand
 Pinney Earle. Is living inseclusion in a suburb of Florence, Italy. George D. Heron married Mary l Everhard, sweetheart of his college
 days at Ripon, Wis. in 1883. The "af- 1 finity' did not enter into their lives i for ten years.
 1 Dr. Heron from boyhood thought
 and spoke fearlessly. His socialistic 1, i'd sas did not suit his Congregational cnarge at Burlington. Iowa. and he re signed to fill a chair of applied Chris i tianity in Iowa College at Grinnell,
 endowed especially for his occupancy 1 by Mrs. Caroline Rand, widow of a Burlington lumber king.
 Mrs. Rand and her one daughter l Carrie were members Of the Burling- 1 ton church, and Carrie Rand was a most enthusiastic student of the icon oclastic minister's socialism. The 1 Bands followed Heron and his fam | fly to Grinnel1 and continued to be al
 most as a part of the professors fam l fly. Carrie Rand went about with Mrs. Heron and this kept gossip quiet for several years.
 i The public breach came in 1900
 when %Dr Heron went travelling through Europe with Mrs. Rand and
 her daughter and left his family al
 home. His resignation from the col | iege faculty followed on his return Dr. Heron then went to Chicago, and
 in January. 1901, launched the next ! social apostolate, or a school of ap IpIied Christianity. which should teact religion as he saw it. In March, 1901
 Mrs. Heron procured her divorce in Algona, Iowa. charging desertion fol five years. The complaint was sup pressed. but friends of the deserted
 wife asserted that Mrs. Heron had been forced by her husband to take the step in order that he might marry
 Carrie Rand.
 Dr. Heron and Miss Rand weni through a form of taking each other for a "companion" which he had pre- pared and then went to live on {
 farm at Pumptown, N. J., a present
 from Mrs. Rand.
 Dr. Herron's brilliant career as z
 public lecturer ended with his mar riage to Carrie Rand He continued
 to write of the predicted social revo
 lutlon. but when he sought to make l La hand. and even many of his socialistit friends abandoned him.
 A year and has ago. Dr. Herron'' health having broken down under th'
 strain of criticism, the family went t Italy and purchased a villa near Flor ence. which may be the home of thu "companions" until the end.
 At Pumptown it is said that pr Heron will not come home befor' i, next summer, if at all. 1t is reportet
 there are now three babies in tn
 household, and that Dr. Heron ant , Carrie Rand live together in peTfec , harmony and love.
 Before their going Mrs. Heron s , mother. Mrs. Rand, died. The daugf , ter was left s200,000, and made trus r ltee of the residue of the Rand estatS 1 of which part went to found the Ran
 School of Socialism in East Nine 2 teenth street. pr. Heron was to b : it's first apostle" but it is announce 1 that his health will not permit. ! Dr. Herron's abandoned wife too Q her four children and the alimon! -~~~-~- 2 been sesa eco provided hy the mnthe !, of Miss Carrie Rand, and hid herself n in a North Carolina mountain villag