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Below is a family biography included in History of Shawnee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens by James L. King, published by Richmond & Arnold, 1905. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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HUBERT A. HEATH.
Hubert A. Heath, manager of the Kansas Farmer, one of the old established journals of Topeka, was born April 28, 1857, at Cerro Gordo, Piatt County, Illinois, and is a son of John Heath, one of the old residents there.Mr. Heath’s boyhood and school days were passed at Cerro Gordo and he was graduated at the Wesleyan University in Illinois. In 1881 he came to Topeka and has been connected with the Kansas Farmer ever since. He has long been identified with stock interests in this State and for the past 10 years. has been secretary of the Stock Breeders’ Association, and was a special agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry under Hon. J. M. Rusk, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, for three years, when he resigned the post. The position was one which had come to him entirely unsolicited. Since then all his energies have been directed to the extension of the circulation and influence of the paper with which he has been connected for the past 25 years, a paper which finds a welcome at almost every intelligent farmer’s home in the State and which has been a helpful friend and adviser to many perplexed agriculturists.
Mr. Heath was married to Estelle Read, of Bloomington, Illinois, and they have two daughters and one son. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Heath takes an independent attitude, his paper being an agricultural instead of a political journal.
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This family biography is one of 206 biographies included in History of Shawnee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens by James L. King, published by Richmond & Arnold, 1905. For the complete description, click here: Shawnee County, Kansas History, Genealogy, and Maps
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