Bio of Homer T. HEATON (b.1851), Wright Co., MN

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Bios from:  Mitchell, William Bell, 
History of Stearns County, Minnesota.  Volume II.  
Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co.  1915.

Page 962

Homer T. Heaton, a successful farmer of Lynden township, was born in 
Waterbury, Green county, Vermont, July 16, 1851, son of Tertius and 
Fatima (Perkins) Heaton, natives of Vermont, who came west to Wisconsin 
in 1857, and in 1859 to Stearns county, where they located in Lynden 
township and here spent the remained of their lives.  Homer T. Heaton 
came to Lynden township with his parents, attended school here, and 
has devoted his life to farming.  He has been a successful farmer and 
has a good place of 175 acres, which he has improved and developed in 
various ways, erecting all the buildings himself.  Mr. Heaton was 
married April 3, 1880 to Ida M. Slattery, and they have seven children: 
Mollie, now Mrs Clarence Bentley; Kate Pearl, now Mrs Willard Clayton; 
James; Fay A.; Jennie, now Mrs. Clarence A. Miller; Hollis E. and Blanche.