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Albert Farley Heard

Birth
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
26 Mar 1890 (aged 56)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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He married, 28 Oct. 1868 (divorced) Mary Allen Livingston, b. 5 Jan. 1851, d. at her apartment in Paris, France, 90 boulevard de Courcelles, 8 Dec. 1882, bur. with her mother at Tivoli, daughter of Henry Walter7 (Henry6-5, Walter4, Robert3, Philip2, Robert1) and Angelica (Urquhart) Livingston of Livingston, N.Y., and a descendant of the French Admiral deGrasse.
Albert F. Heard entered Yale University in 1849, graduated in 1853, and went to China shortly afterwards to join his uncle's company, “Augustine Heard & Co.” He went back to the United States in 1858, returning to China the next year and stayed there until 1867; obliged to return to China again in 1872, he remained there until 1875; in 1877 he represented the Lowell Gun Company in Russia, and it was probably about this period that he was the official representative from China to Russia for several years; from 1880 to 1882 he was manager of a metallurgical foundry in Bayonne, France; he later removed to Washington, D.C., where he served as private secretary to William C. Endicott, Secretary of War, and later as librarian for the Army. Mr. Heard became interested in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and published a book on the subject, The Russian Church and Russian Dissent (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889). No children.
[REFERENCE: Edward W. Hanson, "The Heards of Ipswich, Massachusetts" (1986)]
He married, 28 Oct. 1868 (divorced) Mary Allen Livingston, b. 5 Jan. 1851, d. at her apartment in Paris, France, 90 boulevard de Courcelles, 8 Dec. 1882, bur. with her mother at Tivoli, daughter of Henry Walter7 (Henry6-5, Walter4, Robert3, Philip2, Robert1) and Angelica (Urquhart) Livingston of Livingston, N.Y., and a descendant of the French Admiral deGrasse.
Albert F. Heard entered Yale University in 1849, graduated in 1853, and went to China shortly afterwards to join his uncle's company, “Augustine Heard & Co.” He went back to the United States in 1858, returning to China the next year and stayed there until 1867; obliged to return to China again in 1872, he remained there until 1875; in 1877 he represented the Lowell Gun Company in Russia, and it was probably about this period that he was the official representative from China to Russia for several years; from 1880 to 1882 he was manager of a metallurgical foundry in Bayonne, France; he later removed to Washington, D.C., where he served as private secretary to William C. Endicott, Secretary of War, and later as librarian for the Army. Mr. Heard became interested in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and published a book on the subject, The Russian Church and Russian Dissent (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889). No children.
[REFERENCE: Edward W. Hanson, "The Heards of Ipswich, Massachusetts" (1986)]


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