James M. Heilman and Esther Eliza Quigley

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Husband James M. Heilman ^{1 2}

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           Born: 26 Sep 1848 - Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 11 May 1913 3
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         Father: Peter Heilman (1819-1878) 1 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Remaley (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 22 Feb 1872 or 27 Feb 1873 - Mosgrove, Armstrong Co, PA 1 5

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Wife Esther Eliza Quigley ⁵

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: Sharron Mateer Quigley (1823-Aft 1914) 6
         Mother: Mary Mateer (      -1882) 7

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Children

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1 M Sharon Peter Heilman ^{1 5}

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           Born: 27 Mar 1874 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 5
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           Died: 10 May 1914 - Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZ 5
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         Spouse: Lupah O'Brien (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1898 5

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2 M Dr. Arthur M. Heilman ^{1 5 8}

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           Born: 12 Jan 1879 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: Alice Collier Patterson (      -      ) 5 8
           Marr: 18 Jun 1907 8

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General Notes: Husband - James M. Heilman

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He was given a common school education, and at the age of sixteen became an apprentice at the carpenter's trade, with Jacob Martin. After serving three years he went to work as a journeyman, being employed by different concerns in various sections of the country, which experience made him acquainted with the methods used by his several employers and equipped him for thorough and successful work. Returning to Kittanning in 1869 he engaged in contracting and building on his own account, he and his brother, William, becoming associated in business and later admitting their brother John to the partnership, which was known as Heilman Brothers. They built up an extensive and profitable business, and in 1889 they extended their operations by entering into the lumber and planing mill business, erecting a large mill. In 1905 the firm was incorporated under the name of Heilman Brothers Lumber Company, James M. Heilman being president of the concern until his death. This concern was recognized for years as one of the most important and progressive of the kind in Armstrong County, and its value as one of the substantial factors in the upbuilding and development of Kittanning was thoroughly appreciated. The Heilman brothers are entitled to much credit for their success. Beginning with little capital, they forged ahead steadily, keeping fully abreast of the times in methods and ideas, keeping their equipment up to meet the growing demands of their trade, judiciously investing surplus money in town lots in Kittanning, which they improved with residences and other buildings, and in every way showing good judgment and shrewd management.
In 1907 Mr. Heilman was elected vice president of the Kittanning Plate Glass Company, and the year following was elected president, serving one year, the term for which he was chosen. He afterward devoted his principal energies to the lumber business, and he had always private interests of considerable importance, particularly the development of gas and oil properties, with which he was identified for over twenty years. He served as vice president and manager of the Garrett's Run Gas Company, was interested in several other oil and gas companies, and was to the time of his death a stockholder in the Franklin Oil & Gas Company, of Bedford, Ohio.
Mr. Heilman was quite prominent in fraternal circles in Kittanning as a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the B. P. O. Elks. He was a past noble grand of the local Odd Fellows Lodge, and a past chief patriarch of the encampment. When the Elks' Home was erected in Kittanning he served as superintendent and manager of construction, a position for which he was thoroughly fitted, and the handsome building is not only a credit to the order, but an example of fine architecture of which the borough was proud.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 353.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 963.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 967.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 884, 966.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 968.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 412, 968.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 413, 968.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 63.