Legislator Details
Vital Records Information:
Marital Information:
married late in life to Mrs. Tessa Demmon [before 1921]
Number of Children: 0
Background
Education:
private tutors; graduated from Detoit High School, 1885;
graduated from University of Michigan 1887, in philosophy; studied law at University of Michigan
Biographical Sketch:
Son of Emil S. and Fanny (Butzel) Heineman. From 1893-96 he was appointed Chief Assistant City Attorney
of Detroit; he compiled the Revised Ordinances of the City. He was elected to the Detroit Common Council in 1902 and was its president in 1906. From 1910-13, he was named city controller; in 1917 [WWI], food adminstrator for Wayne Co. He had a law partnership with Joseph M. Weiss. He later served as Managing Director of the Fort Wayne & Belle Isle Railway Co., a Director of the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Co., a Director and Secre-
tary of the Merz Capsule Co. He served various times on the State Library Board and was president of the League of Michigan Municipalities and the Detroit Anti-Tuberculosis Society. He was a member of the Oddfellows, Masons, Elks and other societies.
Notable Facts:
He enacted into law, to establishment
of a great aquarium and horticultural building for Belle Isle Park and a bill to establish the State Library Commission.
He also designed the flag for the City of Detroit in 1907.
Wrote the first traffic ordinance for Detroit.
Died of pneumonia.