Page 3 - John Heard, An Account of His Life and the History of Augustine Heard & Co., 1891.

Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
Ipswich, October 1891
I have been aEked to wrHe the .tory of
Il:il'
life ,
for the enter_
ta).:l)Dent of the family. I co.::ply, not becauea
it
contaill' any remarkable
_
ent. or stirring incident, but because 110 comprieee a period of great
scientific and intellectual activity. It 115 hlu-dl,y poeeib1e to tell
wlu1t btu, hap,ened to one person during the last fifty YSB I withou.t lr._
cluding lIfIlCh
n.at
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of Interelt to all .
I "as born on the 14th of September, 1824. ICY rather 1I'as
Geore;e y , Heard and IllY 1Il0ther Elisabeth Ann Farley .
w,y
grandfather 1I'al
John Heard , who lived to be over nlnet:y. F.e "all a can highly reapected,
and filled mSDy positionl of honour and importance in the State and in
hil own to'm . He wae u,ndl6pllted master in hi. O'm fMdly, snd eo fer
aI
I have been able to learn , "al a rroan of bigh character and 1I'ide infl'WIDce .
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had
a very large family but they
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ir, the .acond generlition , for of fourteen children the only deecendant.
living
to~
ere mv father'e f&mily, the grandchildren of IllY unc l e J ohn ,
8
lld the children of hie daughteI"l , Wrs, 'II'111erd and ).!re. l!anning .
IIy
father wa. educated a. a ph,}'licl"n , hut
he
never "lractieed
hi' profeeaion _ 1I'fl,y I do not certainly kno.. , - h' probably had no taete
for
it ,
and as
he ..
ae the only eon at hOI!16 it was necel6ary he ehould
recain in care of hie father who had become very old, I kilo"
he
chl!f ,.d
under the irkeome life in thll little country town, but there eeeLled to
be no help for 1t. In 1 634 old
Mr.
!
leard died, and very shortly after–
ward.
the
familj IIlOved to Boeton .
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