- EDWARD BURTON HEIMSTREET, the leading druggist of Janesville,
established business in
- this city in 1868, and has carried it on continuously since
with marked success. His stock comprises a full line of drugs,
patent medicines, paints, oils, glass and artists' materials,
and in the last mentioned class of goods he does both a retail
and wholesale business. His establishment is one of the largest
and finest drug houses in the State, and four clerks are employed.
- Mr. HEIMSTREET is a native of New York, and was born in Lansingburg,
Rensselaer County,
- on the 3rd day of January, 1848. His father, Stephen HEIMSTREET,
was born in New York, Nov. 24, 1813, and was a well known druggist
of Lansingburg. His mother, whose maiden name was Emeline SPICER,
was born at Charlotte, Vt., and was descended from an old New
England family, her father, the Rev. Tobins SPICER, being a prominent
Methodist itinerant minister, of New England. In January, 1867,
his parents became residents of Janesville, where they made their
home until October, 1886, at which time they returned to the
East on a visit. The death of the father occurred at Troy, N.Y.,
in January, 1887, at the age of seventy-four years. He was a
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother
is still living in Troy, N.Y.
- The subject of this sketch received a liberal education,
attending the Methodist Episcopal College
- of Poultney, Vt., and subsequently became a student of Jonesville
Academy, at Jonesville, N.Y.; later of Mechanicsville Academy.
He then studied medicine under Dr. H. B. WHITON of Troy, N.Y.,
for two years, also attending Albany Medical College.
- After several vain attempts to enlist in the volunteer service
of the late war, in January, 1865, be
- succeeded in being enrolled as a private of Company F, of
the 14th Regiment, United States Regulars, and served until August,
following the close of the war, when through the influence of
his father, who had been trying to induce him to leave the service
since he had entered it, he was honorably discharged.
- Mr. HEIMSTREET was employed in his father's drug store from
early boyhood and became
- thoroughly instructed in the business. In 1867, he removed
to Janesville, Wis., intending to perfect himself in the study
of medicine, but finding an opportunity to buy a drug store at
a good advantage, he did so and has carried on the business continuously
since.
- On the 14th day of January, 1868, Mr. HEIMSTREET was married
at Janesville, Miss Stelle
- HOWARD, daughter of William H. HOWARD, then Sheriff of Rock
County, becoming his wife. The lady was born at Shullsburg, Grant
Co., Wis., where her parents were among the early settlers. Two
children have been born of their union, Alice M., and Charles
S., both born at Janesville.
- Mr. HEIMSTREET has been identified with the leading interests
of Rock County, since becoming
- one of its residents. He was one of the foremost movers in
securing the State Pharmacy law and worked long and faithfully
to secure its passage. He is credited with being the founder
of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association, of which he is the
present secretary, and is also secretary of the State Board of
Pharmacy, in which position he has served for seven years. He
has also served as secretary of the Janesville City Hospital
since its establishment in 1888, for three years was secretary
of the Rock County Agricultural Society, for ten years served
as secretary of the Janesville Horticultural Society, for thirteen
years held the office of secretary of the Janesville Fire Police,
and five years was collector of the Janesville Fire Department.
He is also adjutant of the W. H. Sergeant Post, No. 20, G.A.R.;
a member and Past Chancellor of Oriental Lodge, No.22, K. of
P.; P.G. of Wisconsin Lodge, No. 14, I.O.O.F., and Sachem of
the order of Red Men. Mr. HEIMSTREET and his family attend Christ
Church (Episcopal), of which Miss Alice is a communicant.
- Mrs. HEIMSTREET, a bright, active and highly intelligent
woman, renders her husband valuable
- assistance in his business correspondence, and in the clerical
duties of the various society secretaryships which he holds,
and without her cheerfully rendered services it would be impossible
for him to successfully discharge the various duties imposed
upon him without neglecting his private business. Mr. HEIMSTREET
is recognized as one of the wide-awake, progressive business
men of Janesville. Public-spirited, broad in his views, of unquestioned
integrity and always up with the times, his interest and efforts
in the cause of wholesome laws in regard to pharmacy, have won
him distinction throughout the state.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 504-505.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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