Henry Heaton
Henry Heaton was a North-American amateur mathematician.Life and work
Heaton was a son of a millwright. In 1852 the family moved to Greenfields, Pennsylvania, where Heaton attended the school four months every winter until he was fourteen years old. At the age of eighteen he began his two careers, as a carpenter and as a teacher. He studied also for his BS in the Mount Union College in Ohio in the course 1866-1867. In 1869 he moved to Taylor, Iowa. After, he moved to Des Moines, Iowa where he met Joel E. Hendricks, the founder and editor of The Analyst who encouraged him to publish mathematical problems and solutions in the journal. In 1877 he and his family were living in Sabula, Iowa; in 1879 in Atlantic, Iowa; in 1881 in Lewis, Iowa; in 1906 in Belfield, North Dakota; and, finally, he died in Biddle, Montana in 1927
From 1874 to 1918, Heaton published about one hundred solutions to mathematical problems in The Analyst and in The American Mathematical Monthly.
