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Show Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE tWO Describing himself as a "natural Republican," Heiner served in a number of local political offices, and was mayor of Morgan City for two years. Following service in the first state legislature, Heiner was then appointed as road commissioner for Morgan County. In this role, he had several significant accomplishments in road and bridge building. Keeping pace with his growing prestige in the secular world, Heiner's role in the Mormon Church grew increasingly more responsible. As a polygamist he narrowly escaped prosecution, being saved from being brought to trial by the timely announcement of the Manifesto which had the effect of halting active prosecutions of polygamists under the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Although he did not join the distinguished group of Mormon Church leaders serving time as "prisoners for conscience's sake" in the territorial prison, Heiner had gained that extra measure of responsibility, from a Mormon point of view, which probably ensured his eventual selection as President of the Morgan state (akin to a diocese) of the Mormon Church. He served in that position for twenty-three years. Daniel Heiner was preceeded in death by the two wives who had given him nineteen children. Before his own death in 1931, at his home in Morgan, he was married to his nurse, Barbara Wheeler. The Heiner Home, like the man, is a measure of the sturdy values of pioneer enterprise and its solid construction and innate style a fitting memorial to a man who made contributions to his community through business, politics, and religion. |
