BIO: William W. HEATON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 399.
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  W. W. HEATON, M.D., Saltillo, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
January 1, 1865, in Coalmont, Huntingdon county, son of George A. and 
Sarah Ann (Wright) Heaton. His father spent his youth in Huntingdon 
county, and was educated in the common schools. For several years 
before the war and up to 1874, he carried on a general store, but his 
health failing, he sold out in 1874, and lived retired from business 
the remainder of his life. George A. Heaton was twice married. His 
first wife was Miss Lovell; she became the mother of one child, Milton 
L., who is now a resident of Lyndon, Kan. Mr. Heaton's second wife was 
Sarah Ann Wright, by whom he had these children: Mary L.; Dr. W. W.; 
and N. C., a dentist of Mauch Chunk, Pa. The father died in Cassville, 
October 22, 1875, at the age of fifty-two. He was a Republican. His 
church connection was in the Methodist denomination. Dr. Heaton's 
maternal grandfather, Jesse Wright, M.D., was for many years a 
physician of Trough Creek valley, having settled there at an early 
date; for years he was the only doctor within a circuit of about thirty 
miles. He made visits to his patients on horseback. And as through the 
week, he ministered to the physical ailments of his neighbors, so on 
Sunday he sought their spiritual health, as a local preacher of the 
Protestant Methodist church. He was in this double relation a most 
active and useful man. His wife was Ruth Chilcoat; both are dead, 
leaving a family of seven or eight daughters. Sarah Ann (Wright) 
Heaton, mother of Dr. Heaton was born in Trough Creek valley, and 
educated at Cassville Seminary; she lived in Cassville from early 
childhood, and still resides there.
  W. W. Heaton was educated at his native village, Coalmont, and at 
Cassville, to which place the family removed when he was ten years old. 
In 1886, he opened a general store in that town, which he conducted for 
several years. He began reading medicine with Dr. G. W. Simpson, of 
Mill Creek, in 1887, and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
in Baltimore, Md., in the fall of 1888. A year later, he entered the 
University of Louisville, Ky., from which he was graduated in the 
spring of 1890. Dr. Heaton first went to Sylvan Grove, Kan., where he 
remained for a few months, and then removed to Ouray, Col., and lived 
there for about a year. During a visit to his native State the Doctor 
decided to take a post-graduate course, and with that view entered 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and received its diploma 
in the spring of 1892. From that time he was for two years in practice 
at Entriken, Huntingdon county; in August, 1894, he removed to 
Saltillo, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. 
Heaton is a Republican but has never courted political preferment.