Heatwole, J. L. (d.1933)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1933 Jan 18 p. 1

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Departed Minister Was Man of Diversified Interests.

Rev. J. L. Heatwole, well known minister to many Eastern Mennonite churches, recently passed away at his home in Virginia.

Regarding the active life and wide interests of Rev. Heatwole, the Gospel Herald gives the following particulars:

"He received his education in the common schools and in Valley Normal at Bridgewater, Va. For many years he was a school teacher, but in later years his many other activities compelled him to drop this line of work. He was whole-hearted in his support of Church schools, and the Eastern Mennonite School owes its beginning largely to his untiring efforts. He was a prolific writer contributing numerous articles for religious and secular papers, and his contributions on scientific subjects were always read with interest. He is author of a number of books, among them "Moral Training in the public Schools," "Key to the Almanac and the Sidereal Heavens," "Mennonite Handbook of Information." He is also the compiler and writer of a series of Moral Standard Readers, which are still in manuscript form. As a pioneer weather observer, in which he had a record of about 64 years, and also as an almanac calculator, he had a field of his own, supplying calendars for as many as 60 almanacs in the United States and Canada. He was both a pioneer and an authority on such matters, and a number of years ago published a perpetual calendar that attracted wide attention."