William Heeser, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Heeser
American politician
Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1822
Date of Death: 09-Apr-1906
Profession: justice of the peace
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About William Heeser
- William Heeser (born August 28, 1822 in Koblenz, Germany; died April 9, 1906) was a German-American newspaper publisher and banker in Mendocino County, California.Heeser emigrated from Germany to Baltimore with his brother, Augustus H.
- Heeser, following the death of his father, and then moved to Providence, Kentucky where he opened a general store in 1844.
- He arrived in the town of Mendocino in the 1850s, and purchased in 1858 from William H.
- Kelly a farm consisting of most of the land west of Lansing Street in Mendocino.
- He soon became a justice of the peace and notary public; he was a county supervisor from 1864 to 1867 and from 1877 to 1880.
- He operated a general store in Mendocino, and chose the names for many of Mendocino's streets.
- As a United States deputy surveyor, Heeser constructed Little Lake road (a wagon road from Mendocino to Willits), and another road from Mendocino to Ukiah.
- In 1870 and 1871 he founded the Bank of Mendocino and the Mendocino Discount Bank.
- Heeser founded the Mendocino Beacon in Mendocino, California with W.
- H.
- Meacham in 1877 and the Fort Bragg Advocate-News in Fort Bragg, California in 1887; he also founded newspapers in the Mendocino County communities of Kibesillah, Rockport, and Westport.
- In 1892, he purchased the Point Arena Record, which had been founded in 1888 by H.
- B.
- Cartnell.Heeser became a Freemason in 1850, and joined the California lodge of the Masons around 1952.
- He was one of the founders, initially warden and later master of the Mendocino lodge, #179, which began in 1865 and met above Heeser's general store until its own building, the Mendocino Masonic Hall, was completed in 1872.
- He married Laura A.
- Nelson on December 18, 1865; they had one son, Augustus A.
- Heeser, who continued his father's businesses.Heeser Addition, a community near Fort Bragg, and Heeser Road in Mendocino Headlands State Park bear his name.
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