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38 SYLVESTER WEBSTER HEATH was born in 1852, educated in the public schools, where his earlier career was like the epitaph on Mr. Box's monument which read "here lies two boxes, one within the other. The one of wood was very good but we can't say so much for the other." To get even for the "lickings" he got when a school boy, he attended the National Normal of Ohio and became a teacher, where he gave it all back with interest. One of his teachers, Miss Caroline Tuttle, after whipping him on the installment plan for a half day and failing to get him to spell, she organized a class in geography and required each member to draw a map. When the class was called and the maps examined, the map drawn by the subject of this sketch was held up before the class and pronounced the best map.
There was just one thing he could do better than other boys and he took that one faculty as a stepping stone to better things and was never punished afterward tho he always despised oral spelling and in his teaching required words to be written, defined and used in a sentence. While teaching in the first Normal Institute held in Delaware County, Ind. he met and formed the acquaintance of Miss Anna Veal to whom he was married in 1877 and by whom was born one son and one daughter. The son died at the age of five months. Daisy, born in 1878 was educated in the high school of Michigan City, Ind. and Brooklyn, Iowa. During her first year in high school, at the age of 14 she wrote a serial story entitled "Boarding School Life' which was published in book form. In the state contest between individual pupils of Iowa, 1892, for a prize and representation at the World's Fair of Chicago, she won second prize. She has done a great deal of illustrative work for which she has received good prices. After teaching school two years she was married to Ben. P. Robinson and they are living in Des Moines, Iowa. They have two daughters: Grace, born 1900 and Virginia born 1903. One son, Jack, born Sept. 1906.
Anna died on the eighth anniversary of her marriage at Michigan City, Ind. 1885 after which S. W. returned to Iowa where he was elected county superintendent of Public schools of Poweshiek County, which office he held for eight years, the longest term any county official ever held office in that county. During his term he graded the rural schools, secured uniform textbooks and won the first prize in a state contest between counties, a medal and two diplomas from the World's Fair of Chicago. He was married a second time, 1887 to Minnie C. Skinner of Barnes City, Iowa, a teacher by whom have been born one son, Charles W. 1893 and a daughter, Bessie L. 1900 who died at the age of nine months after which both Mr. and Mrs. Heath took a course in Osteopathy at Still College, and both passing the State Medical Board examinations of Iowa and South Dakota, have a good business at Sioux Falls, S. D. where they have been located since Sept. 1903.
Delaware County, Indiana Index to Marriage Record 1827 - 1920 Inclusive Name: Sylvester W Heath Spouse: Anna E Veal Marriage Date: 15 Apr 1877 Book: C-6 OSPage: 542 County: Delaware
Iowa Cemetery Records
Grave Stone Records of Poweskiek, Iowa
Page: 608
Name: Daisy A. Robinson
Birth Date: 1878
Death Date: 1916
Cemetery: I. O. O. F.
Town: Brooklyn