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Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters. 
LUCIUS HERITAGE. 
By HENRY DOTY MANSON. 
Lucius Heritage, son of Isaac C. and Margaret S. Heritage, was born 
Dec. 21, 1848, in Walworth, Wisconsin. In childhood his family removed 
to Milton, where he spent a large portion of his life. The death of his 
mother in 1864, led to a suspension of his studies and a temporary 
abandonment of his purpose to prepare himself for a profession. He ac¬ 
cordingly became apprenticed to learn the wagon-maker’s trade, and 
spent three years in this employment. His native taste for the things 
of the intellect led him, however, to embrace an opportunity to re¬ 
sume his studies, and he entered Milton College in 1869. Completing 
the Teacher’s Course in that institution in 1872, he taught Latin for a 
short time in the St. Paul High School, and then returned to Milton to 
receive his diploma from the Classical Course, in 1875. In the fall of 
that year he became first assistant of Mr. Albert Markman, in the Mil¬ 
waukee Academy, where he remained one year. It was my fortune after 
an interval of several years to succeed him in this position, and I found 
his reputation for character and scholarship still very vivid in the tradi¬ 
tions of the school. He was pretty uniformly Mr. Markham’s standard 
of comparison in speaking of the qualifications of a teacher. “As good 
a man as Heritage,” was the highest compliment. In the fall of 1876 he 
sailed for Germany, where he spent a little over two years as a student 
in Gottingen, Halle and Leipsic. In the year after his return he was 
married to Miss Ruth G. Maxson, who survives him, with one son, their 
only child, born in 1885. It was during his temporary residence in Mil- 
ton in 1879, that I first knew him. Our acquaintances are usually many; 
but the circle of friends who really enter the current of our life and 
make vital contributions to our character and thought, must always be 
small. It was my fortune from this time until his death, to number 
Prof. Heritage among these companions of the soul. In 1879 he was ap¬ 
pointed Latin tutor in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. W. P. Allen, 
who, but for his untimely death, would have prepared a worthier biog¬ 
raphy than I am able to furnish, wrote soon after the death of Mr. 
Heritage that when he became a candidate for the instructorship in 
Latin, the University faculty were already predisposed in his favor on 
