Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Heenan, David 1868 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   David Heenan, of Wichita, Kan., is a good type of the resourceful class of
Irishmen who come to America and achieve independence with no capital but their
brains and industry. Mr. Heenan was born August 15, 1868, in Belfast, Ireland,
his father being David Heenan, a native of the green isle. After acquiring a
rudimentary education in the old country Mr. Heenan came to America in 1889. He
stopped at Kansas City, Mo., for a short time, but left that city and came to
Wichita the same year, where he has ever since resided. The essential
characteristics of Mr. Heenan are energy, pluck and perseverance. He has taken a
full hand in connecting himself with and organizing some of the leading
enterprises of the city of Wichita, and while possessing some of the peculiar
traits of the Irishman, has shown good judgment and a high degree of business
efficiency in all of his endeavors. He began his business career in Wichita as
correspondent for J. W. Hawn, and in 1892 formed a partnership with E. K.
Nevling under the style of the Nevling Grain Company. He afterwards, in 1899,
took a prominent part in the organization of the Nevling Elevator Company, and
became secretary and treasurer of the company. Later on be formed a partnership
with J. Sidney Smith under the name of David Heenan & Co., and this firm is now
doing business in Wichita. Mr. Heenan has been secretary and president of the
board of trade and is now a director in the same. He was the organizer of the
clearing house and a director of the Clearing House Association. Mr. Heenan is a
member of the Masonic fraternity and of Albert Pike Lodge of Wichita. In
politics he has not identified himself with either of the two great parties,
preferring to remain an independent and vote as judgment dictates.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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