Heritage, William, 1888-.

William Heritage was born August 27, 1888 at Campbell, Dakota Territory (later South Dakota) to John Wesley Dewees Heritage (1862-1946) and his wife Josephine (Minster) Heritage (d.1938). The family later lived on a rented farm near Perlee, Iowa and in 1902 settled on a claim near Ray, Minnesota, in Koochiching County.

Heritage attended the Columbia School of Drafting in Washington, D.C., where he studied to become a topographic draftsman. He estimated timber (1908-1910) for the E.A. Engler Lumber Company (Baudette, Minn.), and later worked for the firm as a cruiser-walking boss (1917-1918). From 1910 to 1917 he worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a district forest ranger in the Superior National Forest at Ely, Minnesota.

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