HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, p. 1270.   [Jefferson County]

WILLIAM HEYBURN, one of Louisville's prominent citizens and leading
business men, and president of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing
Company, is a striking example of what may be accomplished when
determined perseverance is seconded by native ability.  His rise to the
position which he now occupies is indicative of his especial fitness for
work to which he is devoting his energies.  Under his capable direction
the business of the company has increased to mammoth proportions, so that
the enterprise is one of the most important contributing to the commercial
activity and consequent prosperity of the state.
     Mr. Heyburn is a native of Pennsylvania, born near Chadd's Ford in
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, on August 17, 1861, the son of John Brinton
and Sarah (Gilpin) Heyburn, both natives of Delaware county, the father
dying in 1874 and the mother still living.  The Heyburn family has been in
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, since the days of William Penn.  Both the
Heyburn and Gilpin families have been English Quakers for many generations
and both came over from England during the seventeenth century.
     William Heyburn was born on the farm and reared upon the same, and he
was given every opportunity to acquire a first class education, which he
took advantage of and after receiving his preliminary training at the high
school at Media, the county seat of Delaware county, he took a course at
the University of Pennsylvania.  In 1880 he went west and spent four years
in Colorado, but returned east in the early part of 1884 and engaged in the
hardware business in New York city.  This experience was of sufficient
training that when he came to Louisville in November, 1886, he was offered
and accepted the position of buyer for the W. B. Belknap Hardware and
Manufacturing Company, and since that time has proved himself so invaluable
to this firm that his connection has been cemented more closely as time has
passed.  Mr. Heyburn became in succession treasurer, vice-president and
president of the company, taking the latter position in May, 1910.
     He is one of the most progressive and public-spirited men of the city
and state and his success cannot but be viewed with pleasure by all who
have cognizance of his earnest efforts and worthy career as a capable
business man.  Mr. Heyburn has taken an active part in business circles
since coming to Louisville and is regarded as on of the city's most able
and useful men.  He is essentially public-spirited and takes an active
interest in the building up of the city and her institutions and is a most
worthy member and honored president of the Louisville Y.M.C.A.
     Socially Mr. Heyburn shows his inclinations by his membership with
the Pendennis and Country Clubs.  He married Julia, the daughter of Henry
W. Barret, of Louisville, and they have three sons: Henry Barret, John
Gilpin and Alexander.

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