Bio of Heath, Alpheus Winslow (b.1824) Wabasha Co., MN
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Heath, Alpheus Winslow, (deceased) was born in Clearfield county,
Pennsylvania, March 26, 1824. In 1841 he married Louisa Bundy, reared in
the same vicinity. Mr. Heath was always a farmer, and cleared up a farm in
Pennsylvania, at the same time working a great deal at lumbering. He was
very successful and left his family well provided for at his death, which
occurred in September, 1869. He began life with an ax, a hoe and
twenty-five cents in money; was always a hard worker and was quite gray at
his death. Besides property in Pennsylvania, where his widow now resides,
he left two hundred and eighty acres of land in Chester that was divided
among his children. These are, Emeline (Mrs. Scott Lamont) and Arvilla, at
Millville; Nahaman B., Gillford; Charles Manly and Henry C., Chester. Mr.
Heath was an ardent republican and served many years in Pennsylvania as
justice of the peace. He became a resident of Chester in 1858, pre-empting
a quarter of section 1, where he resided permanently from 1864 till his
death, which was caused by typhoid fever.