Carlos Clayton Heard

Carlos Clayton Heard attended the public schools of Biddeford, graduating from its high school, and then entered Yale College, from which he also graduated. The following two years were spent in the wholesale and retail hardware business in his native town, and in 1898 he took up the study of law with Nathaniel B. Walker (LL.B., 1877), and was admitted to the bar in 1901. He was for a long time associated with Mr. Walker in practice, under the name of Heard & Walker, but for several years had practiced independently. He was counsel for the Biddeford Savings Bank, of which his father was president, and local counsel for several large companies. He was elected city solicitor of Biddeford on the Democratic ticket in 1914 and held that office until his death. He served for nearly 16 years, beginning March 1899, as a member of the Board of Assessors of Taxes, for ten years being chairman of the board. In 1900 he was chosen secretary of the Citizens' Executive Committee, and served in that capacity for one year. He was a member of the York County Bar Association, was president of the Association of the Descendants of John Heard, was prominent in the Masonic order, and attended the Foss Street Methodist Church of Biddeford. In 1908 he received the degree of LL.M. from the University of Maine. On July 15, 1903, he married Mrs. Isabella Falconer (Paterson) Bardsley, of Saco, Maine, daughter of George F. and Jeannette (MacGregor) Paterson, and widow of William T. Bardsley.

Excerpted from Louis Clinton Hatch, Maine: A History.)

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