Thomas S. Heaney Sr. 62, pioneer philanthropist, prominent citizen and theatre man of Cheyenne, was found dead in a room in the Albany hotel in Denver at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A post mortem examination conducted by coroner W.F. Horan of Denver, revealed the fact that death had been due to a rupture of the right ventricle of the heart due to fatty degeneration. He had been dead two and a half hours before his body was discovered.
Mr. Heaney left Cheyenne for Denver last Wednesday. He was apparently in good health. Early yesterday morning he was taken ill in his room in the Albany and called for Dr. Charles Ellis, house physician of the Albany. He complained of a tight feeling across the chest and was suffering from chills and fever. Dr. Ellis prescribed aspirin. The amount of aspirin taken by Mr. Heaney was not known although at 10:40 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Ellis called on him and found him apparently much improved. He told the physician that he planned to get up to keep a business appointment in the afternoon.
Harry Brown, manager of the hotel, called on him at 11:00 o'clock and chatted with him for several minutes. At this time, Mr. Heaney had reconsidered his plan to get up and asked the manager to cancel the business date for him. That was the last time he was seen alive.
A maid entered his room with a pass key at 4:30 o'clock to make up his bed, supposing that he had left the room. She found Mr. Heaney's body laying partly on the floor and partly on the bed. She rushed from the room and summoned Frank Dutton, the clerk who notified Coroner Horan.
Walter J. Bradley, partner of Mr. Healey in the theatre business here, Mrs. Bradley, who is Mr. Heaney's daughter and Mayor R.N. LaFontaine, brother-in-law of Mr. Bradley, left Cheyenne in the latter's car last night for Denver to bring back the body.
Mr. Heaney was born in Carhau Argleshire, Scotland in 1854. His parents were William and Margaret Heaney. He was educated in the parachial schools. While in his early teens he engaged in the stonecutting and building business. He located in Wyoming 39 years ago in 1877. He served as a soldier in the United States Army and later engaged in this country as a plainsman and prospecter. He engaged later in the real estate business and erected a number of fine homes here. He was for a number of years owner and manager of the Capitol Avenue theatre, one of the most magnificent and costly theatre buildings in the west, which was destroyed by fire last December. Since the destruction of the Capitol Avenue, Mr. Heaney has devoted practically all of his time to the management of the Atlas theatre, and it was for this house that he had gone to Denver on business Wednesday.
For two terms he was president of the Industrial club. In 1908-1910 and 1913-1914, during which time he did many things of a philanthropic nature for the good of Cheyenne. He declined the office when it was offered to him again. He has served as a delegate to numerous Republican county and state conventions.
Mr. Heaney is survived by two sons, Thomas Heaney Jr. of Casper and William Heaney of Cheyenne, and two daughters. Mrs. Walter Bradley of this city and Miss Geraldine Heaney, who is now in California.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 209 September 01, 1916, page 1
Mr. Heaney left Cheyenne for Denver last Wednesday. He was apparently in good health. Early yesterday morning he was taken ill in his room in the Albany and called for Dr. Charles Ellis, house physician of the Albany. He complained of a tight feeling across the chest and was suffering from chills and fever. Dr. Ellis prescribed aspirin. The amount of aspirin taken by Mr. Heaney was not known although at 10:40 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Ellis called on him and found him apparently much improved. He told the physician that he planned to get up to keep a business appointment in the afternoon.
Harry Brown, manager of the hotel, called on him at 11:00 o'clock and chatted with him for several minutes. At this time, Mr. Heaney had reconsidered his plan to get up and asked the manager to cancel the business date for him. That was the last time he was seen alive.
A maid entered his room with a pass key at 4:30 o'clock to make up his bed, supposing that he had left the room. She found Mr. Heaney's body laying partly on the floor and partly on the bed. She rushed from the room and summoned Frank Dutton, the clerk who notified Coroner Horan.
Walter J. Bradley, partner of Mr. Healey in the theatre business here, Mrs. Bradley, who is Mr. Heaney's daughter and Mayor R.N. LaFontaine, brother-in-law of Mr. Bradley, left Cheyenne in the latter's car last night for Denver to bring back the body.
Mr. Heaney was born in Carhau Argleshire, Scotland in 1854. His parents were William and Margaret Heaney. He was educated in the parachial schools. While in his early teens he engaged in the stonecutting and building business. He located in Wyoming 39 years ago in 1877. He served as a soldier in the United States Army and later engaged in this country as a plainsman and prospecter. He engaged later in the real estate business and erected a number of fine homes here. He was for a number of years owner and manager of the Capitol Avenue theatre, one of the most magnificent and costly theatre buildings in the west, which was destroyed by fire last December. Since the destruction of the Capitol Avenue, Mr. Heaney has devoted practically all of his time to the management of the Atlas theatre, and it was for this house that he had gone to Denver on business Wednesday.
For two terms he was president of the Industrial club. In 1908-1910 and 1913-1914, during which time he did many things of a philanthropic nature for the good of Cheyenne. He declined the office when it was offered to him again. He has served as a delegate to numerous Republican county and state conventions.
Mr. Heaney is survived by two sons, Thomas Heaney Jr. of Casper and William Heaney of Cheyenne, and two daughters. Mrs. Walter Bradley of this city and Miss Geraldine Heaney, who is now in California.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 209 September 01, 1916, page 1
Thomas S. Heaney Sr. 62, pioneer philanthropist, prominent citizen and theatre man of Cheyenne, was found dead in a room in the Albany hotel in Denver at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A post mortem examination conducted by coroner W.F. Horan of Denver, revealed the fact that death had been due to a rupture of the right ventricle of the heart due to fatty degeneration. He had been dead two and a half hours before his body was discovered.
Mr. Heaney left Cheyenne for Denver last Wednesday. He was apparently in good health. Early yesterday morning he was taken ill in his room in the Albany and called for Dr. Charles Ellis, house physician of the Albany. He complained of a tight feeling across the chest and was suffering from chills and fever. Dr. Ellis prescribed aspirin. The amount of aspirin taken by Mr. Heaney was not known although at 10:40 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Ellis called on him and found him apparently much improved. He told the physician that he planned to get up to keep a business appointment in the afternoon.
Harry Brown, manager of the hotel, called on him at 11:00 o'clock and chatted with him for several minutes. At this time, Mr. Heaney had reconsidered his plan to get up and asked the manager to cancel the business date for him. That was the last time he was seen alive.
A maid entered his room with a pass key at 4:30 o'clock to make up his bed, supposing that he had left the room. She found Mr. Heaney's body laying partly on the floor and partly on the bed. She rushed from the room and summoned Frank Dutton, the clerk who notified Coroner Horan.
Walter J. Bradley, partner of Mr. Healey in the theatre business here, Mrs. Bradley, who is Mr. Heaney's daughter and Mayor R.N. LaFontaine, brother-in-law of Mr. Bradley, left Cheyenne in the latter's car last night for Denver to bring back the body.
Mr. Heaney was born in Carhau Argleshire, Scotland in 1854. His parents were William and Margaret Heaney. He was educated in the parachial schools. While in his early teens he engaged in the stonecutting and building business. He located in Wyoming 39 years ago in 1877. He served as a soldier in the United States Army and later engaged in this country as a plainsman and prospecter. He engaged later in the real estate business and erected a number of fine homes here. He was for a number of years owner and manager of the Capitol Avenue theatre, one of the most magnificent and costly theatre buildings in the west, which was destroyed by fire last December. Since the destruction of the Capitol Avenue, Mr. Heaney has devoted practically all of his time to the management of the Atlas theatre, and it was for this house that he had gone to Denver on business Wednesday.
For two terms he was president of the Industrial club. In 1908-1910 and 1913-1914, during which time he did many things of a philanthropic nature for the good of Cheyenne. He declined the office when it was offered to him again. He has served as a delegate to numerous Republican county and state conventions.
Mr. Heaney is survived by two sons, Thomas Heaney Jr. of Casper and William Heaney of Cheyenne, and two daughters. Mrs. Walter Bradley of this city and Miss Geraldine Heaney, who is now in California.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 209 September 01, 1916, page 1
Mr. Heaney left Cheyenne for Denver last Wednesday. He was apparently in good health. Early yesterday morning he was taken ill in his room in the Albany and called for Dr. Charles Ellis, house physician of the Albany. He complained of a tight feeling across the chest and was suffering from chills and fever. Dr. Ellis prescribed aspirin. The amount of aspirin taken by Mr. Heaney was not known although at 10:40 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Ellis called on him and found him apparently much improved. He told the physician that he planned to get up to keep a business appointment in the afternoon.
Harry Brown, manager of the hotel, called on him at 11:00 o'clock and chatted with him for several minutes. At this time, Mr. Heaney had reconsidered his plan to get up and asked the manager to cancel the business date for him. That was the last time he was seen alive.
A maid entered his room with a pass key at 4:30 o'clock to make up his bed, supposing that he had left the room. She found Mr. Heaney's body laying partly on the floor and partly on the bed. She rushed from the room and summoned Frank Dutton, the clerk who notified Coroner Horan.
Walter J. Bradley, partner of Mr. Healey in the theatre business here, Mrs. Bradley, who is Mr. Heaney's daughter and Mayor R.N. LaFontaine, brother-in-law of Mr. Bradley, left Cheyenne in the latter's car last night for Denver to bring back the body.
Mr. Heaney was born in Carhau Argleshire, Scotland in 1854. His parents were William and Margaret Heaney. He was educated in the parachial schools. While in his early teens he engaged in the stonecutting and building business. He located in Wyoming 39 years ago in 1877. He served as a soldier in the United States Army and later engaged in this country as a plainsman and prospecter. He engaged later in the real estate business and erected a number of fine homes here. He was for a number of years owner and manager of the Capitol Avenue theatre, one of the most magnificent and costly theatre buildings in the west, which was destroyed by fire last December. Since the destruction of the Capitol Avenue, Mr. Heaney has devoted practically all of his time to the management of the Atlas theatre, and it was for this house that he had gone to Denver on business Wednesday.
For two terms he was president of the Industrial club. In 1908-1910 and 1913-1914, during which time he did many things of a philanthropic nature for the good of Cheyenne. He declined the office when it was offered to him again. He has served as a delegate to numerous Republican county and state conventions.
Mr. Heaney is survived by two sons, Thomas Heaney Jr. of Casper and William Heaney of Cheyenne, and two daughters. Mrs. Walter Bradley of this city and Miss Geraldine Heaney, who is now in California.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 209 September 01, 1916, page 1
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