People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — JUDGE HEALY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUDGE HEALY.

Since August, 1862, Sylvester Healy, who was born at Karkillary Lakes, Ireland, in'lß3B. has been a resident of Rensselaer. He came to America in March, 1860. but spent a couple 6f years adrift before locating here. His face has become so familiar to all, and his royal good nature so reputed, that this p&per would be really incomplete without a mention of him, who has won so warm a place in the hearts of

the people, who esteem his unassuming individuality. He bears with easy grace the title of Judge, from having once been elected against his will to the office of justice of the peace, though he declined to qualify. Without intentionally ever having offended or wounded the feelings of any one, he has occasionally earned the plaudits of friends by the perpetration of some of the richest harmless jokes that only his fertile ingenuity could devise. Judge Healy has no peer as a gentleman of polished demeanor. He was married at twenty, and of a family of four daughters and three sons one son and two sons survive. He began life on the shoe bench at the age of twelve, ar.d has never done a day’s labor at anything else. At eighteen he, was earning from $lO to sls per week £Lis shop has long been located at its present place on Washington street-' where his friends have been' pleased to bring their work and pass the compliments of the day. He is a master of the shoemaking trade, and has an enviable reputation for doing fine new work and neat repairing. He is now .putting in a line of firstclass ready made goods, which he invites his patrons to examine before purchasing elsewhere.

SYLVESTER HEALY.