Heard, John T
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1840, in Georgetown, Mo. He was elected to the state legislature of Missouri in 1872; and in 1861 was elected, without opposition, a state senator, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
HEARD, JOSEPHINE HENDERSON, author, poet, was born Oct. 11, 1861, in Charlotte, N. C. She has written extensively for the periodical press; has published a volume of poems; and is the secretary of the National Press association. Mrs. Heard is the wife of the Rev. William Henry Heard, United States minister to Liberia, Africa.