G. M. D. Heard

       G. M. D. Heard, crockery merchant at Chattanooga, Tenn., was born July 21,
1844, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the eighth of ten children born to Charles
W. and Caroline (Goldsmith) Heard. Mrs. (Goldsmith) Heard was a daughter of
Mrs. Abigail (Jones) Goldsmith, of Painesville, Ohio, where the latter now
lives, and was one hundred years old the 29th of April, 1887. She is a
native of Berkshire Hills, Mass., and came from there to the city where she
now resides, early in this century. Mr. Charles W. Heard was born in
Onondaga County, N.Y. in 1806, and came to Ohio at quite an early day. He
was a prominent architect of Cleveland, Ohio, where he built some of the
oldest houses and superintended the building of some of the most prominent
public buildings now standing. He was a consistent Democrat, maintaining his
opinions against bitter opposition and prejudice which existed in that
section during the late war. He was of Scotch descent. Mrs. Heard was a
descendant of the famous Oliver Goldsmith family. Our subject secured a fair
education in the schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and ran away from them and
entered the army in 1862. He enlisted in Company E, Eigthty-fourth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He came to Chattanooga in 1870, where he has since
resided, engaged in his present business, the style of the firm being Brooks
& Heard, 122 Market Street, Chattanooga. He was elected and served as school
commissioner of Chattanooga one term. He married Miss Lillie Tutt in 1875.
She was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1857, is the daughter of Benjamin F.
and Lizzie (Rawlings) Tutt, and a descendant of the Tutt family of Augusta,
Ga. Four children were the result of our subject¹s marriage:  Clio, Rawlings
Walton, Charles Wallace and Lois Goldsmith. Mr. Heard is a Republican in
politics, and he and wife are members of St. Paul¹s Protestant Episcopal
Church at Chattanooga, of which Mr. Heard is a vestryman. He purchased, in
1884, Beauclair, at the head of Whiteside Street in St. Elmo, the most
beautiful natural location for a residence in the county.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887

Submitted by Ruth Anne Nelson