Horace Heydt

Jurist; born at Schultzville, Montgomery County, Pa., Feb. 12, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of the county and the Kutztown State Normal School, graduating in 1878. Later he entered Lafayette College, and was graduated in 1884. He studied law in Mauch Chunk in the office of Freyman & Kiefer, and was admitted to the bar of Carbon County, in June, 1885. In 1889 be entered into partnership with Mr. Freyman, in the firm of Freyman & Heydt, and in 1901 was appointed by Governor Stone, president judge of the Common Pleas Court in the new district then formed; and was elected in 1902 to the same office for the term expiring in 1913. He is a Republican in politics. Address: Mauch Chunk, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 365.

Submitted by Nancy.