Bert Orcutt Heath

1872 - 1953  (81 years)

• Name	Bert Orcutt Heath  [1]
  Born	13 Mar 1872	Newfield, Tompkins, New York, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Sep 1953	Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA   [3]
  Buried	5 Sep 1953	Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA   [4]
  	Range 9, Plot 48, SW Quarter
  Person ID	I736	Blum Genealogy
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Lebbeus Heath,   b. 4 Feb 1834, Choconut, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 30 Apr 1899, Newfield, Tompkins, New York, USA  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Amanda M. Fairbrother,   b. 1837, Germany ,   d. 26 Apr 1916, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marion M. Kirk,   b. 23 Feb 1875, High Market, Lewis Co, New York, USA ,   d. 21 Dec 1954, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	Abt 1902  [1]
  Children	1. Kermit Kirk Heath,   b. 31 Oct 1908, New York, USA ,   d. 10 Jun 1957, Greece, Monroe, New York, United States  (Age 48 years)  [natural]   2. Amos Revo Heath,   b. 19 Feb 1909, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA ,   d. 30 Jan 1955, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA  (Age 45 years)  [natural]   3. Rosamund Marion Heath,   b. 14 Jan 1913, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA ,   d. 13 Jun 2012  (Age 99 years)  [natural]   4. Davis Heath,   b. 1909, New York, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown  [natural]
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Bert 0. Heath, dean of the Rochester druggists, died last night (Sept. 1, 1953) in Strong Memorial Hospital. He was 81. Founder of the B. 0. Heath & Son drug firm, he was one of the oldest active druggists in the country until illness forced his retirement in July of this year. He lived at 1817 St. Paul St with his wife, Marion, for years an active partner in the family business. His long career as a druggist began by chance in Rochester in 1899. He had stopped off here on his way home to Newfield, near Ithaca, to take a state pharmacist's examination after graduating from Northwestern University College of Pharmacy in Illinois. Just as he was preparing to leave for home, his aunt, with whom he was staying, told him of a job opening as a clerk at the G. W. Johns Drug store on Central Avenue. Mr. Heath took the job at $15 a week. Three years later he bought the place. Before coming to Rochester, he had taught school in Newfield the semester after his graduation at the age of 17. For the next three years, he drove a stagecoach between Newfield and the railroad station. Then he entered college. After buying the Rochester store, Mr. Heath helped organize the Rochester Drug Co-operative, a druggists' wholesale house in which member druggists own stock and operate themselves. It was one of the first in the state. Although Mr. and Mrs. Heath were born and grew up only a few miles apart near Ithaca, they first met in Chicago in 1898 when he was at Northwestern and she was visiting relatives. Shortly after he bought the Johns drug store here in 1901, they were married. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Amos and Kermit, both now members of the family firm; a daughter, Mrs. Rosamund Jorolemon; eight grandchildren, and a niece and a nephew, all of Rochester. The body was removed to the Farrell Brothers Funeral Home, 51 Ridge Rd. W., where services will be held on Thursday and burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York) Wed, Sep 2, 1953

  
  

• Sources

  [S26] Federal Census (1910). [S25] Federal Census (1900). [S35] Headstone/Gravestone (year only). [S9] Cemetery records.