The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-11
DOCTOR BACK With
MILLIONAIRE Wife
NEW XOnK

NEW YORK Speclal.-Afser a
self-impoSed exile abroad of SIX and
a half years. Professor George u. Her
ron, Socialist agitatOr. and his sec
Ond wife. Mrs. Carrie Rand Heron.
whom he took for his wife ia this
city in 1901, without the exchange Of
the usual vows. returned Wednesday
TO America. The couple and their
three children were ON the steamship
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. They came
from Florence, italy
There had been no public announce
ment of the homecoming Of the one
time much discussed Heron couple.
They hurried to the Pennsylvania
Terminal and We're soon at Metuchen.
n. J. They were met there by Dr.
Alfred l.. Ellis. manager OF ElmwOod
Farm. the thirty-five-acre estate given
TO Mrs. Heron by her mother, widow
of an Iowa lumber millionaire.
BY Wednesday night news of the
eNiles' return went through the VIII
lage. There was no hostile comment
so far as reported though there had
been mighty hubbub three years
ago. when it was rumOred that Dr.
Heron intended 20 establish a free
love colony there.
Welcomed by Clergyman.
The Rev. James G.. Mason. pastor
OF the First Presbyterian Church.
Metuchen. had learned that the Her
rons were coming home "Wednesday
and he welcomed them back. 1t is
said the HerrOns will atteh1 ms
church. They made no announcement
Wednesday. IL seemed DIR. Heron
still held TO the policy he announced
just before he eXiled himself:
They may cruelty me on the cross
or burn me at the stake, and l will
not reply"
That was his answer TO the de-
nunciation by DR.. Hills, of Plymouth
Church, and others Of his divorce
from his first wife,
DIR. Herron's second wife. II is said,
inherited most of the $1,000. OOO es-
tate OF her mother, and former So
cialist friends wondered Wednesday
night what big propaganda he might
start here with such ample means.
Heron was originally a poor boy
at Montezuma, a small place i'm In
diana. He set up little printing
press and then joined travelling
show, which stranded at Fox Lake,
Wis. He trudged, penniless, to RipaD
Wis, where he got work and educated
himself at the college there. In 1883
he married Mary Everhard, daughter
of a physician. former Mayor OF
| Ripan. Next he entered the Congre-
gational ministry. His first large pas
torate was in Burlington, la.
Met His affinity"
There he fell in love with Miss Car
RE Rand. and he and his wife sepa-
rated. Miss Rand's mother endowed
/ n chair Of applied Christianity at Grin
nell College, Iowa, and Heron was
made professor. In 1900 he, Miss
Rand and her mother Travelled in Eu-
| rope, and in May, 1901, soon after his
wife had divorced him at GTinnell, he
married Miss Rand in this city in the
! home of DIR. Charles Il. Patterson.
4 Edwin Markham and Richard lie Gal
lienne were present. The Rev. w. T.
Brown, of Plymouth Church. Roches-
ter. n. V. simply Announced" Her
ron and Miss Rand TO be man and
wife.
1t was said 81 1905 that Herron's
/ second wife had settled 100000 on the
/ first wife, who was living with her
I fuur-ohildren at Tryon, N. c.
The Herrons left here that year
and in September, 1907. IL was re-
/ ported that Heron was dying I'm Flor
encc. crushed in health and spirit by
his failure TO reform society and re-
| ligion.