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 the 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 5th 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-
