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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![MR. /11-:A TON, SENIOR. 2g lioncst frugal life, and died, liavioL^ iimdc iif> iioi^c of Miiy kind ill liis own generation, hut willi;il Jiaving accom])lislied the work assigned to Jiiin. And then comes his son, tlie next John Jlealou, who has his father's shrewdness and frugality, hut added to those things a quiet and sterling benevol- ence of character, of which we liave no record left in tlie case of the elder num. He too makes his way in the world, and, as the extract I have given shows, is able to be something more than just to his less ibr- tunate brother; can give a ready ear to his appeal for help, relieving him of his debts, allowing him to live in the old family house in Hunslet, even per- ]riitting him—the younger son—to enjoy all through his Hfe the exclusive benefit of the little patrimony which had come to them. Even if no other record of this John Heaton's life were left than that contained in the few lines I have transcribed from his son's journal, there would be enough here to commend the man to our afi'ection and respect. Fortunately, how- ever, other records of this really remarkable as well as worthy man are left; and it is a comparatively easy matter to picture him as he was during his busy and prosperous life in the town where he had been born. ' Fortunately,' says his son, ' for him and his children, he was not confined to the dull obscurity of what was at that time a suburban village, separ-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
