HEALD

JOHN P. HEALD, Clerk of Polk County and District Court at Osceola, also
senior member of the firm of Heald & Huffman, abstractors and real
estate dealers, opening the first set of abstract books in the county.
The subject of this sketch came to Nebraska in the fall of 1871; took up
a homestead on Section 4, Town 15, Range 3 west, in Platte Precinct and
was among the very first settlers in the town here. He taught the first
school in the precinct in District No. 7; in 1873, he was elected
Assessor for the west one-third of Polk County; in the fall of 1875, was
elected County Clerk, holding the said office for two terms, and in 1881
was also re-elected and also Clerk of the District Court. Mr. Heald was
also one of the original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Society of Platte Precinct, which was formed with only a class of seven
members. He was born in Washington County, Ohio, December 25, 1848; was
married April 6, 1870, at Kewanee, Henry Co., Ill., to Miss Sarah F.
Pyle. 

Source: Andreas' History of Nebraska, Polk County, Town of Osceola
Submitted by Susie Martin-Rott
rootbound2@geocities.com

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