Bartholomew County IN Archives Biographies.....Heiner, Edgar M. 1853 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

EDGAR M. HEINER.

   E. M. Heiner, ex-recorder of Bartholomew county, and who for a number of
years has been engaged in general farming and stock raising, owning a tract of
land near Columbus, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, on the 7th of
November, 1853, and is a son of Levi and Mary (Metcalfe) Heiner. The Heiner
family was established in Maryland at an early day, and both the parents of the
subject were born and reared there, the father of German descent, the mother of
English. After arriving at years of maturity they were married in Maryland and
the father engaged in milling, having in his youth learned the miller's trade.
He remained in the south until 1884, when he came to Indiana, spending his last
days in the city of Columbus. Both he and his wife were devoted and loyal
members of the Methodist church and contributed liberally thereto, at the same
time taking an active part in the church work along various lines. They thus
gained the unqualified confidence and good will of those with whom they were
associated and their influence was felt on the side of the right, of reform and
of progress. Unto them were born seven children, five daughters and two sons:
Minerva, deceased, was the wife of Samuel Stevenson; Sarah married John Powder,
now deceased; Charles, deceased; Thomas, of Memphis, Tennessee; Martha married
Robert McGinley, of Columbus; Edgar M. is the subject; Hettie F.; Anna married
William Hill, of Des Moines, Iowa.

   Edgar M. Heiner, when a little lad of six summers, entered the public schools
and also during his youth he learned the miller's trade, assisting his father in
the mill until he was about nineteen years of age. Lessons of industry and of
enterprise were instilled into his mind by his parents and have been active
factors in his later career. On coming to Indiana, in 1872, he established his
home in the city of Columbus, where he worked in a mill for a time. Later,
however, he secured employment as a farm hand by the month. He then rented a
farm, upon which he lived for eight or nine years, and during that time he
harvested good crops as the result of his labors. He then purchased a tract of
land, upon which he lived for eight years, and during that time he engaged in
stock farming, raising a large amount of cattle each year. He still lives upon a
farm near Columbus and is numbered among the enterprising, wide-awake and
energetic agriculturists of this part of the state. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Heiner
were born seven children: Nellie F., who was born April 15, 1876; Harry C, born
September 8, 1879; Leonard P., whose birth occurred on December 17, 1880, died
August 22, 1903; Cora May, born December 28, 1883, died October 15, 1885; Ben
H., born October 21. 1888; an infant daughter born May 6, 1884, died unnamed;
and Jessie L., whose natal day was January 10, 1891.

   Since exercising his right of franchise Mr. Heiner has never faltered in his
allegiance to the Republican party, although he was born in a slave state. In
November, 1898, he was elected recorder of Bartholomew county by a majority of
two hundred and fifty-six and in that position proved himself a capable officer,
prompt and reliable in the discharge of his duties. His term expired December
31, 1903. The terms progress and patriotism might be considered the keynote of
his character, for throughout his career he has labored for the improvement of
every line of business or public interests with which he has been associated,
and at all times has been actuated by a fidelity to his country and her welfare.

   Mr. Heiner was married March 18, 1875, to Flora Alice Patram, who was born
six miles below Columbus in the Haw Patch, Bartholomew county, Indiana, on
September 29, 1855, the daughter of Thomas and Priscilla (Erhart) Patram, the
father a native of Virginia, and the mother of Maryland.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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