Historical and biographical encyclopaedia of Delaware. V 2, Part 52

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countered, these young physicians entered the cane- | brakes and cypresss wamps of the Yazoo valley in 1834, the elder being barely 25, and the younger less than 23 years of age. Given their spared lives, it is not sur- prising that they made a high success in the first year of their practice. Subsequently James became a Texas patriot and a surgeon in her armies, occupying for a time the position of her acting Surgeon-General, and always enjoying the love and esteem of the wise and good in times of peace. He married a daughter of one of the most distinguished families of Texas, and died in 1864, leaving a family consisting of his widow and five children. All these sons of Rev. Joseph Copes, excepting Thomas, became early in life ruling elders in the Presbyterian church. All of them found time and means for advancing the crown-rights of their Lord Christ, and for sustaining and defending the ministers of His gospel, without denominational distinction. Their homes were always open to preachers; they were all ac- tive friends of education, both in common schools and in institutions of higher learning, and they all held it to be the sacred duty of the patriot, and the philanthropist to labor and pray for good government. Making al- lowances for differences of sex, vocation and fields of usefulness, very much the same might be said of all the & six daughters, (the youngest by the second marriage) who survived to years of maturity. They were all

tried as the fine gold is tried; they all married gentle- men of intellectual culture and piety; and all with a single exception, were permitted to rear children in the knowledge, the fear, and the love of their Creator, and the true faith in Christ. In Delaware, Maryland, Mis- sonri, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, these sisters were permitted to train their christian households, to aid in the planting and building up churches, and in gathering and instructing Sabbath schools and institu- tions of secular learning under christian influences. One of them was honored as the instrument in preparing and sending out a daughter, who became one of the most successful and distinguished missionaries of her day, to Northern India. A Hindee, as well as a Hindus- tanee writer and scholar, taking rank with the cultured minds about her, whether of native or European origin, of civil or army life, loved and admired by every one who knew her in America, in Europe, and in Asia, this gifted woman,-Mrs. Rebecca Townsend Jamisson, wife of Rev. Dr. Jesse M. Jamisson,-finished her great work, and laid down her beautiful life as a devoted gos- pel messenger to a heathen, though a highly intellectual people, dying with cholera in a native passenger boat upon the Ganges, in 1845, committing husband and child- ren to the sure mercies of a covenant keeping God. Is there not in this uniform adherance to scriptual doctrine and practice by all the members of a large family, widely scattered over the earth and well-known, a strong testi- mony to the value of a regular, well devised and persis- tent system of religous training ? And is not the faith- fulness of God's promises to those who train up their children in the way which they should go, thereby illus- trated ? Mr. Copes' executor preserved seventeen vol- umes of his written sermons which were bound for the use of his descendants, who treasure them for their great and intrinsic value. They have always been admired by preachers who have had access to them, as well as by all humble and spiritually minded readers. The bene- ficient influence he exerted throughout all the region of country where he spent his life, is still perfectly apparent to the present time. Perhaps no funeral services in any rural district of our country up to that day, April 8, 1822, ever more fully attested the affection, respect, and sense of their loss, by a large county population, than those per- taining to the interment of this eminently humble and faithful minister of Christ. The procession of carriages alone was said to extend nearly from his residence to the | Cool Spring church, while great numbers attended on

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horses and on foot. The concourse was vastly greater [ subject of this sketch, was the youngest of eleven chil- than the capacity of the church building to contain the multitude, and it is very doubtful if all could enter the large surrounding cemetery. "The whole county seemed to be present." The sessions of the three united churches jointly erected a suitable tomb to his memory, upon which after the usual inscriptions, are chiseled these solemn words :

"In yonder sacred house I spent my breath,

Now, silent, mouldering here, 1 lie in death ;

But I shall rise again and yet declare,

A dread Amen, to truths I published there." J. S. C.

EALD, JOSHUA T., was born, May 26, 1821, in Mill Creek hundred, New Castle county, near the northern circular boundary of the State. The neighborhood is not without some historical in- o terest, as the scene of military maneuvres pre- ceding the battle of Brandywine, and the noble features of its landscape have been vividly pic- tured by Bayard Taylor, whose early home was a few ! miles distant. Bold, sweeping hills, checkered with stately woods and sloping pastures, in which nestle farm houses, which overlook winding valleys and grassy meadows of picturesque beauty. It is now quite well established that the Pennsylvania-Delaware branch of the Heald family descended from William and Jane Heald, of Mobberly, Cheshire, England. Their son, Samuel Heald, and his wife, Mary Bancroft Heald, emi- grated to America shortly after William Penn's second visit to Pennsylvania. They settled in Chester county, Pa., and their descendants are now scattered from Dela- ware to California. The coat of arms of James Heald, of Parswood, Didsbury, near Manchester, England, comprised an emblematic device with a Latin motto, signifying " The Cross is Our Glory." So far as known the family has been distinguished for the large physique, the strongly marked features, and the force of character which are supposed to have been typical of the Celtic race. The immediate ancestors of Mr. Heald were members of the Society of Friends, as were most of their predecessors. For several generations they were farm- ers, residing in Pennsbury, Chester county, Pa. Joseph, the son of Samuel, the emigrant, was the father of Jacob, who was the grandfather of Joshua T. Heald, and who was known for the simple dignity of his character, and for a confiding childlike disposition which greatly en- deared him to his neighbors. He lived until his ninety-fourth year. His father, Joseph Heald, was a man of rare physical power and indomitable will. He was a farmer and contractor of earth work pertaining to milling operations, with comprehensive ideas and a constant tendency toward innovation upon old methods. He was actuated by a stern integrity and inflexibility of purpose, to which he united a chivalrous sense of fealty to friends, which insured him pronounced attachments, and his death in middle life left a lamentable void in a community which had felt his impelling force. The mother belonged to the noted and numerous Quaker family of Mendenhall. She was left a widow at the age of forty-four, with ten children, and a farm somewhat encumbered with debt, but with singular courage and practical efficiency, she managed to clear the farm from its encumbrance and to complete the rear- ing and educating of her large family. When in her sixty-seventh year, during the temporary absence of her family, she fell into a well twenty-seven feet deep, from the bottom of which she ascended un- aided near enough to the surface to be extricated, without serious injury, from her perilous position, by the timely arrival of a friendly hand. She lived to the age of eighty-six, and during the later years of her useful life was happily able to indulge her disposition toward a wise and comprehensive charity. Joshua Taylor Heald, the

dren. He remained upon the old homestead, content with the industrious habits and modest aims of farm life, until he was between twelve and thirteen years of age, when an accidental stroke from a knife while cutting Indian corn, lamed him for life, and wrought a radical change in his career. His capacity for severe physical labor being impaired, it was sought by a superior edu- cation to fit him for other pursuits ; and accordingly he | was sent to an academy near Philadelphia, and subse- quently to another in West Chester, Pa. Before he was seventeen years old, he taught school in Chester county, Pa., and came to Wilmington in 1838, to take the post of book-keeper in the manufacturing establishment of Betts, Pusey & Harlan, then just beginning, now exten- sively known as the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company. In this capacity he soon exhibited quick aptitude and proficiency in his immediate duties, and gave indications of that tireless energy, executive force and broad com- prehension for which his subsequent career has been noted. With a view to engaging in business for himself, Mr. Heald, in 1843, left his position with the then firm of Betts, Harlan & Hollingsworth, and was instrumental in choosing his successor in the person of a former pupil, J. Taylor Gause, who subsequently became the leading member of the firm. In the same year he joined E. A. Wilson in the book and stationery business, and the firm of Wilson & Heald soon took the leading posi- tion in the city in that branch of trade. In 1844, Mr. Heald was married to Hannah, youngest daughter of Jonas Pusey, Esq., of Wilmington. Mr. Heald con- tinued in the book business under the name of Wilson & Heald, under his own name alone, and as a member of the firm of Boughman, Thomas & Co, until 1867, during which year he made a tour through Europe. From the beginning of his residence in Wilmington, it was a studious and leading purpose with Mr. Heald to make of his adopted city a progressive, enlightened and prosperous community. He sought to arouse her citizens to a sense of the need of improvement, and lent the powerful aid of his sanguine energy to pro- mote measures looking to her highest interests. In 1854, he devised a plan for a city sinking fund, and took an active part in securing legislative authority for its adoption, the salutary operation of which at once and thereafter added to the good credit of Wil- mington, and provided for the total extinction of the then city debt in 1891, and which will pay off the present augmented debt by the year 1913. Mr. Heald became a member at an early date of the Franklin Lyceum, and was among the first to realize the necessity of merging the several isolated societies which were then feebly struggling for existence, in order to secure the benefits to all, of an efficient concert of action. To this end he took an active part in the movement which led to the union of the Wilmington Library Company, formed in 1788, with the Young Men's Association, for mutual im- provement, which had absorbed other literary organiza- tions, and was chosen first president of the consolidated association. The name of the joint organization was changed, Jan. 27, 1859, by act of the Legislature, to that of the Wilmington Institute, and it has achieved all the results anticipated by its sanguine friends. Mr. Heald entered enthusiastically into the movement for the erec- tion of an ample edifice to accommodate the growing wants of the society, and did much to inspire faith in the practicability of the project, and especially to insure its firm foundation by insisting upon the collection of sufficiently donated funds before actual construction should begin. The result was the erection of a large structure with superior appointments, completed and prosperously managed without pecuniary embarrassment. Mr. Heald had been early impressed with the rare beauty of the landscape surrounding Wilmington, and espec- ially of the banks of the Brandywine and the noble

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eminences commanding views of extended environs. [ ton, lying at the opposite end of the city from the field of The peculiarly compact structure of the city which crowded its citizens into uniform rows of narrow brick tenements, in a great measure deprived the inhabitants of the advantages which nature had lavishly bestowed. Mr. Heald, appreciating these and foreseeing the inevi- table growth of the city, on the 5th of August, 1860,

entered into an agreement with Joseph S. Lover- ing, Esq., of Philadelphia, owner of the handsome property known as the Shallcross Farm, comprising 176 acres, for the purpose of plotting and selling the same as commodious building lots. Mr. Heald had con- ceived a comprehensive plan for this enterprise, and he now entered ardently upon its development with the cor- dial and enlightened co-operation of Mr. Lovering. It contemplated the extension and straightening of Delaware Avenue to the western city boundary and the laying out of avenues parallel therewith, to be crossed at right angles by streets running to the Brandywine, and to be orna- mented with trees and supplemented with other improve- ments. This was the first fruit of that new idea of Wil- mington which recognized the place as a prosperous and enlightened city, demanding residences and surround- ings commensurate with the growing wealth of its citi- zens, and which has contributed so much to the health and beauty of the city. The staid old conservatives, whose ideas were jostled by this new departure, shook their heads ominously and hinted at dangerous expan- sion and undue extravagance, and strange to say when Mr. Heald offered a double square of ground as a gift from Mr. Lovering for public use, on the simple condi- tion that the city should plant trees thereon and protect

the property with fences, the donation was rejected. abruptly, as a useless piece of property "out in the coun-

try." The property thus offered was shortly after sold for $13,500 cash, and Mr. Lovering was deterred by harsh imputation of his motives, from further attempts to bene- fit his native city. This was in 1861, and two years later when Mr. Heald and other land owners offered a picturesque tract of 25 acres on the banks of the Brandy- wine embracing native trees and rocks at a. low price for a public park, it was indignantly rejected as a "grand scheme of speculation by the owners." Such was the character of the opposition with which the progressive men of Wilmington were confronted through many weary years. The admirable frugality and the simple habits enjoined by the Quakers and other original settlers which had promoted early prosperity, had grown into a disposition to hoard rather than use money, and the opposition to further progress seemed to assume the form of an unreasoning and resentful con- servatism. So narrow were the views formerly enter- tained touching the territorial scope of the coming city. that when, about 1842, it was first proposed to es- tablish the Wilmington Cemetery in its present location,

the objection was made that it was too remote.

Some of

. the objectors have lived to deplore its establishment in

what must soon be the heart of the residence part of the city. In furtherance of the liberal proposition for con- verting the Lovering property into desirable residences, Mr. Heald projected the Street Railway to run the entire length of Delaware Avenue, with Philadelphia, Wilming- ton and Baltimore Railroad depot and other connections, and it was completed in the Spring of 1864, with the

valuable aid of Mr. Lovering, Mr. William Wharton, Jr., and a few other appreciative citizens of Wilmington and Philadelphia, with Mr. Heald as its first President. Quite lately Mr. Heald has been enabled through an approved alteration of this Railroad line in its Western extension, to co-operate in a proposed immediate devel- opment of the Brincklé property of from 60 to 70 acres, into suburban cottages and villas of a character that will be likely to add largely to the attractions of Wilmington as a city of pleasant homes. In 1866 Mr. Heald conceived the idea of enlarging that part of the territory of Wilming-

i these operations, and accordingly enlisted the aid of others and made purchase of a tract of 130 acres of marsh and fast land, opposite the foot of Third street. The purpose was the special accommodation of laborers and operatives in the manufacturing establishments rap- idly accumulating in that quarter of the city. The

property was accordingly plotted into lots adapted to persons of small means, and named "South Wilming- ton," which has grown into a flourishing portion of the city. The Third street bridge connecting it with the city proper was built with the private means of the men

who projected the enterprise, with but little public aid, and it was then presented to the county. The broad

views and plucky determination of Mr. Heald had thus led to the enlargement of the city boundaries in two opposite directions. In allusion to this fact and to the continued difficulties he had surmounted, an observing resident of the city once declared with blunt emphasis, that " Mr. Heald was a man of too large proportions to be confined in Wilmington, if he hadn't kicked both

ends out of it." The remark had a wider application, for Mr. Heald had early made additions to the western part of the city, and had largely managed the acquisi- tion of what is known as the " East side," so that he was chiefly instrumental in providing the needed territory on

the four sides of the city, which have witnessed its prin- cipal growth. The success of these operations led to the desire of many of Mr. Heald's friends to join him in his enterprises in order to advance their own and the city's interests and accordingly the "Christiana River Im- provement Company," was chartered for that purpose in 1866. since which date this organization with Mr. Heald as its president, has developed properties on the south, east and west sides of the city, and also, latterly, the well known Hilles property, skirting the Brandywine on the northeast. The company aided to the extent of $5,500 in building the Eleventh street bridge. They have opened and partially graded miles of streets, and have generally co-operated with enterprises looking to the public good. They have recently arranged with the "National Dredging Company" to fill up to a proper level many acres of marsh on the south side, in further- ance of a long time favorite project of Mr. Heald of extending Wilmington, practically, to the Dela- ware river. Mr. Heald for himself and jointly with this Company and other land owners, has controlled about 1,000 acres in Wilmington and suburbs during the past 30 years, a large portion of which has been suitably di- vided and become productive property. The liberal terms offered purchasers, and the loans made them to facilitate building operations, have encouraged the erec- tion of a large number of houses in the various portions of the Company's purchases. A peculiar feature of Mr. Heald's operations has been his constant aim to obtain control of the large estates of tenacious holders and to subdivide and scatter such properties among numerous purchasers by means of peremptory auction sales. By these methods large tracts, which had been withheld from improvement, have been made immediately available to persons of moderate means : and it may be doubted whether a more effectual mode for preventing ihe "fenc- ing in" of the city, and for promoting its permanent growth and prosperity could have been devised. Having served as a Director for many years in one of the State banks, Mr: Heald promptly recognized the value of the National Banking System, and while others were hesitat- ing, he took the leading part in organizing the first Na- tional Bank in the State of Delaware, in which he re- mained as Director until 1876, when he voluntarily re- signed. The subject of National finances, especially since the war of the rebellion, properly attracted the atten- tion of all thoughtful citizens, and Mr. Heald gave much consideration to this vitally interesting question. He published several articles, taking on equitable and con-

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stitutional grounds, and in the direct interest of our own silver-producing country, a decided position in favor of bi-metalism. With a desire to enlist the active co-opera- tion of citizens in the general advancement of the mate- rial interests of Wilmington, Mr. Heald took measures in his early business life to aid in organizing a Board of Trade, and repeated the same later in 1867. He was : also a delegate in the organization of the National Board ; of Trade, at Philadelphia, in 1868, and a delegate to the in Philadelphia, where he took positions in favor of a reduction of United States postage to two cents, of a United States postal telegraph system with uniform rates of ten cents for ten words, and for the encouragement of commercial facilities between Central and South America and the United States. On his return from Europe in 1867 Mr. Heald resumed his real estate operations, and entered zealously into all movements for the progress of the city. His Quaker education and early affiliations gave him close sympathy with the anti-slavery movement in its political aspects, and he took an early and leading part in the formation of the Republican party in Dela- ware. He had supported Fremont for President in 1856, had been one of the Delaware delegates to the Chicago Convention of 1860, which nominated Lincoln, and of 1868, which nominated Grant, and was chairman of the State Central Committee at the special election of 1863, which resulted in the election of Hon. N. B. Smithers, the Republican candidate to Congress. These services and the successful energy of Mr. Heald in behalf of his adopted city, brought him prominently forward as an available candidate for Representative to Congress, and he received the Republican nomination for that position in 1870. He made a vigorous campaign, and although he ran considerably ahead of his ticket, he was doomed to inevitable defeat from the growing adhesion of the State to the Democratic cause, following the events and national policy at the close of the rebellion. The pecu- liar geographical formation of the land of the Peninsula, comprising all of Delaware State and certain counties of Maryland and Virginia, with Wilmington at its head and as its natural metropolis, had suggested to Mr. Heald his first idea of " Wilmington as a railroad centre," and he joined in the original subsciption to the Dela- ware railroad, since grown, with its various connections, into a general Peninsular system of nearly five hundred miles, its main outlet and connection with other lines being at Wilmington. Mr. Heald had long believed

that the position of Wilmington, in close proximity at once to deep tide water and to the iron and coal supplies of Pennsylvania, gave peculiar advantages to the place both as a manufacturing and shipping point, which had never been fully appreciated, and that the lines and policy of existing railroads were such as to prevent the full realization of these advantages. Having given

the matter much consideration, Mr. Heald took a

prominent part in the organizing work, and gave his pecuniary aid in the extension of railroad facili-

ties to the coal regions of Pennsylvania, by the

more direct route of the Wilmington and Reading

Railroad. He next entered heartily upon a project for

the construction of a new railroad into the interior which,

.by lessening the necessary transportation of heavy manu- facturing materials in time, expense and distance, it was believed would divert their conveyance by direct route to

railroad system, making connection at once with the Wilmington, and prove the nucleus of an additional

tended independently and westward through the southern great Pennsylvania Railroad, but to be ultimately ex-

counties of Pennsylvania. Accordingly an organization

tributed liberally of his time and means, was chosen Railroad Company," of which Mr. Heald, who had con- was formed entitled "The Wilmington and Western

President and he threw himself into the enterprise with all the resources of which he was master. The obstacles

proved insurmountable. He had at last committed irre- trievably, the error to which his entire career had been a constant temptation, the error simply of being too far in advance of his time. The premature character of the enterprise, the extraordinary cost of the road up the rocky valley of Red Clay Creek, and the partial diversion of the expected traffic over the rival route to Delaware City, early conspired to indicate a failure of the enter- prise, which was hopelessly assured by the financial col-

same at two subsequent Annual Meetings in Buffalo and | lapse of 1873. The road was built, through many ob-

stacles, to Landenburg, a distance of about 20 miles, when all attempts at its further construction were aban- doned. When repeated predictions of failure impaired the credit and crippled the efforts of the company, Mr. Heald, aroused to his utmost determination, had pledged his private fortune to ensure the success of the enterprise, and when the crash came, he was brought to the verge of bankruptcy. This was Mr. Heald's first material de . feat in his numerous business undertakings, and he was bowed low, not alone by wounded pride and financial embarrassment, but by the losses of those who had em- barked their means in the enterprise. No man ever cherished a keener sense of honor or business credit, and he was so old-fashioned in his notions upon these mat- ters, that he could not comprehend the mysteries of mod- ern stock manipulations, but innocently supposed that Railroads were paid for by the men who planned and built them, and his sensitive fear that he might be unable to meet every actual, constructive, or possible obligation of a personal character, grew from morbid anxiety to rack- ing, mental torture. In this dark hour his great solace was the grateful hand-grasp from numerous poor men who had been helped to their little homes by his liberal policy. Nor was he wholly forgotten by generous friends who had valued him in prosperity. Through their timely aid and his own fertility of expedient and dauntless spirit, he has been enabled to resume his active and useful career, and is found as ever in full accord with every movement looking to the public prosperity. That this railroad project was premature rather than intrinsically unwise, is already beginning to be manifest. The gar- ment was simply cut too large for the body. A western or more stalwart growth would have already filled the mensure to profitable use. As it is, the future effect - upon the city's durable prosperity will justify the gener- ous faith if not the calculating sagacity of its projectors. It is a consolation to Mr. Heald to have already realized

that the Wilmington and Western Railroad has been merged with an important through railroad line interest, and that the enterprise may yet prove to be a material aid in the development of the general commercial inter- ests of Wilmington, through extensions north and south

Heald's character is his scrupulous care to do the fullest and to the Delaware river. The dominating trait in Mr.

possible justice to others in all his business relations. The somewhat morbid exercise of this propensity has not unfrequently led him into acts of positive injustice to himself in his business transactions. To such a man it is a proud satisfaction to feel that through his severe ordeal, there was never a single protest or dishonor of

his business paper, nor the slightest reason for reflection upon his personal integrity. .In the many trusts that have been confided with Mr. Heald he has adopted an inflexible rule not to run the risk of using for his private purposes, even temporarily any part of the means en-

trusted to him. Without disparagement of the services

of others it is not too much to say that Mr, Heald is more

thoroughly identified with the interests of Wilmington, in their most progressive developments, than any other man within her limits. He is a representative man in

the highest sense of the term, and the impress he will

have left upon the time and community in which he lives will be found in their worthiest achievements. If the Wilmington of the future is to be a grander and more enlightened city than the Wilmington of the past-if it

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shall be richer in all the elements that should constitute | degree of rigidity. A positive man in every fibre and a noble and prosperous community, it will largely result instinct of his nature, he can yet give an emphatic "no" with a suavity that avoids. offense. With organ- izing power of the first order, he combines at once quick decision, tact, a conciliatory tone, an imperious will, and all those pronounced characteristics that confer execu- tive force and the power to command. It ought not to be out of place to add here that these qualifications of the man of affairs are supplemented in Mr. Heald, by æsthetic tastes and affable manners suited to cultured society, and by the gentler graces that enhance the blessings of home, and, moreover, to those who best from the broad foresight, the persistent faith and the in- spiring energy of Mr. Heald. He has always indeed held advanced notions of the moral attitude of the rich man in the community where his wealth has been amassed. He emphatically denies the common assump- tion that a man may rightfully dispose of his own as he may choose, exclusively. Since his wealth was not ac- quired from the air or from nothing, but from the com- munity in which he holds a responsible position, it should be shared by that community, and to it he is in some sense responsible for its proper disposition. Ac- understand him, he is known as a kind husband and tuated by these views, Mr. Heald in the days of his pros- father, a chivalrous friend and open foe, a jolly com- panion and a good fellow. Mr. Heald has had seven children, five of whom, two sons and three daughters, are living. Mr. Heald has been fortunate in his domes- tic relations. Mrs. Heald is the model wife and mother. Her modest household virtues, her gentle fortitude and patient faith, have been the solace and the staff of her husband, while their generous hospitality is the delight of a large circle of friends and younger connections, who look to their home, as in a sense, a family heritage of ancestral hospitalities. However Mr. Heald's purposes or methods may be criticised, it will be conceded that he has always identified his own with the city's interests. He has thoroughly sealed his faith by his works. If he has made money out of his many operations, he has made it by aiding, rather than by retarding the public prosperity, and when his labors shall be more amply justified by the proud results of after years, a grateful people cannot fail to hold his name in kindly remem- perity contributed with a liberal hand to charitable ob- jects and to all purposes tending to the immedi ite and prospective welfare of the public. In the same spirit he made a handsome donation of the ground since used as a burial place for Soldiers and Sailors and of a lot for a monument to their memory, and hence also his prompt co-operation in furtherance of ampler Hotel and Opera House facilities and of other enterprises and objects per. taining to the common good. If he can be said to have a hobby, it is the progress of the city in all that makes happy homes and a prosperous people, and every well- considered movement looking to such result, is assured in advance, of his cordial co-operation. To achieve the results which have thus been the aim of his life, Mr. Heald is admirably fitted by the balanced elements of his character. He unites broad generalization with rare capacity for practical detail. He can conceive and exe- cute with equal facility. His contagious enthusiasm is tempered by method and caution, carried to the last ! brance.

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Historical and biographical encyclopaedia of Delaware. V 2, Part 52

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