Person: Heaton, Henry C
Henry Heaton was an American amateur mathematician who published a large number of elegant problems and puzzles.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- We note that George Heaton and Ella M Heaton were twins.
- Rachel was 18, Eliza 17, Henry 14, William 11, and twins George and Ella were 8 years of age.
- Henry Heaton began his two parallel careers at the age of eighteen.
- Heaton's occupation, as shown on the census form, was that of carpenter.
- By this time Heaton's parents had left Greenfield and were living in New Haven, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
- Heaton moved to Des Moines to take up a position as a teacher and there he made the acquaintance of Hendricks who encouraged Heaton's interest in mathematics.
- Hendricks suggested that Heaton subscribe to the Yates County Chronicle and it was to this journal that he began to send solutions of mathematical problems posed in the Chronicle.
- It was Hendricks who taught Heaton the basic concepts of probability theory which he quickly mastered.
- In Volume 3, Part 3, Hendricks published a solution to the "Four Bricks Problem" and notes that Heaton has solved this problem.
- Heaton continued his contributions to the Annals.
- Between 1878 and 1894 Heaton posed, or published solutions to, several problems in The Mathematical Visitor.
- We noted that Heaton met Joel Hendricks when he (Heaton) was teaching at Des Moines in the early 1870s.
- The Heatons did not stay in Des Moines for long for in 1877-78 they were living in Sabula, Jackson County, Iowa, a town on the Iowa/Illinois border almost surrounded by the Mississippi River, where Heaton was Superintendent of Schools.
- By 1879 Heaton was living in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa, a town between Omaha and Des Moines, and in 1881 in Perry, Iowa, about 40 km north west of Des Moines.
- In 1906 Heaton moved from Atlantic to Belfield, North Dakota.
Born 19 April 1846, Millsboro, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 27 January 1927, Biddle, Power River County, Montana, USA.
View full biography at MacTutor
Tags relevant for this person:
Origin Usa
Thank you to the contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0! 
- Github:
-
- non-Github:
- @J-J-O'Connor
- @E-F-Robertson
References
Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:
- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
