Edwin Heinz Biography


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				EDWIN HEINZ. 

	Edwin Heinz is filling the position of county clerk of Marshall 
county with office in Britton. He was born in Lowell, Wisconsin, 
October 25, 1865, and is a son of Jacob and Helen (Beatner) Heinz. The 
father was born in Germany in 1829, while the mother,s birth Occurred 
in Pennsylvania in 1840. Mr. Heinz, who crossed the Atlantic to the new 
world when a young man of twenty-one years, settled in Wisconsin and it 
was in Watertown, that state, that he was married. Although a wagon 
maker by trade he removed to a farm following his marriage and for a 
number of years continued the cultivation of that place, but the 
property was sold in 1877, at which time the family went to Cambria, 
Wisconsin. There Mr. Heinz purchased another farm, upon which he 
resided until 1904, when he sold out and built a home at Randolph, 
Wisconsin, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred 
November 20, 1911, when he was eighty-two years of age. His life was 
governed by his religious belief as a member of the Lutheran church and 
his political faith was that of the democratic party. His widow 
survives. 

	In a family of ten children Edwin Heinz was the fourth in order 
of birth. He pursued his education in the schools of Cambria, 
Wisconsin, until graduated from the high school with the class of 1884. 
He was early trained to farm work, becoming familiar with the duties 
and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In 1886 he came 
to South Dakota, settling on a farm on which he lived for four months, 
after which he became a clerk in a general store. Almost from the 
beginning he acted as manager of the business as the proprietor was in 
ill health and was forced to seek a change of climate. After the store 
passed to other ownership Mr. Heinz remained with the new proprietor 
for two years and later engaged in clerking in the New York Cash Store 
for two years. At the end of that time he and his brother, Emil Heinz, 
established a business on their own account at Langford, where they 
conducted a general store from May, 1892, until the wide-spread 
financial panic of 1893, when they sold out. Again Mr. Heinz engaged in 
clerking until 1906 when he turned his attention to carpenter work, 
which he followed until 1911. In 1910 he was elected clerk of the court 
of Marshall county and has twice been reelected, so that he is now 
serving for the third term. He has been accorded a large vote, which 
indicates his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him by 
his fellow townsmen. He devotes almost his entire time to the office 
although he also owns a dray line in Britton. 

	On the 24th of January, 1894, Mr. Heinz was married to Miss Mary 
Elma Woodruff; who was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and they have 
become the parents of six children, Genevieve, Vivian, Albert, Emerson 
W., Newton Edwin, Dalza and Joyce. The eldest daughter is through 
school and the next two children are attending school. 

	In his political views Mr. Heinz has always been an earnest 
republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the 
day. He and his family attend the Presbyterian church and he holds 
membership with the Odd Fellows and Workmen lodges, in which he has 
passed through all of the chairs, being representative to the grand 
lodge of Odd Fellows. Sterling traits of character have won him high 
esteem and he is regarded as one of the most efficient, capable and 
trustworthy officers that Marshall county has ever had.