JOSEPH W. HEARTWELL.
 

	Joseph W. Heartwell is town clerk and secretary-treasurer of the
Rosetown Union Hospital. He was born in Brigden, Ontario, on the 21st
of January, 1882, a son of William Thomas and Mary Jane (Woolsey)
Heartwell, likewise natives of Ontario. William Thomas Heartwell was
a blacksmith and carriage-maker in his native province throughout his
life. His death occurred in 1887. Mrs. Heartwell continued to reside in
Ontario until 1902, when she removed to Chicago, Illinois, with some of
her family and resided there until 1906. In that year she came to what
is now the town of Rosetown, where her sons were located and in the
fall of the following year she was made postmistress here. There are
three children in the Heartwell family, all living in 
Saskatchewan.
	Joseph W. Heartwell received his education in the grade schools of
Brigden and attended the high school at Petrolia. Upon the completion
of his schooling he went to work in a drug store in Brigden and one year
later-in 1898-he went to the United States and located at Detroit,
Michigan, where he continued his drug store work until the fall of that
year. He then returned to Canada and located in Manitoba where he was
engaged in harvesting wheat. When that work was finished he went home
for a year and subsequently returned to the United States, residing in
Oklahoma for a short time. In 1901 he took up residence in Chicago and
there worked for the Illinois Central Railroad until 1906, when he came
to what is now the town of Rosetown, took a homestead and operated it
for three years. At the termination of that time he disposed of the land
and acquired another homestead, buying a South African scrip, on which
be proved up and operated until 1921, when he traded it for the controll-
ing interest in the Rosetown Electric Light plant. In April, 1916, Mr.
Heartwell was appointed town clerk, in which position he has since
served. On the 1st of January of that year he became secretary-treasurer
of the Rosetown Union Hospital. He is also secretary of the South Rose-
town Rural Telephone Company.  His business activity and enterprise
have enabled him to win a prominent position in commercial circles,
while his individual worth has gained for him the sincere regard and
goodwill of those whom he has met.
	On the 24th of May, 1910, Mr. Heartwell was married to Miss Laura
Dell Ivison and they have two children: Margaret Jean, born on the 18th
of July, 1911; and Fraser Voy, born on the 5th of August, 1918. In his
political views Mr. Heartwell is a Liberal and he has always been a help-
ful and cooperant factor in public advancement. He is a member of the
Methodist church. He is secretary of the local Board of Trade and of
the Commercial Club. Socially he is identified with the Rosetown Coun-
try Club and the Curling Club, being secretary of the latter organization,
and he is also a member of the Tennis Club. He is a devotee of sports of
all kinds.  During the Great war he gave generously of his time and
money in the furtherance of the government's interests. He represented
the militia department on the exemption board and was active in the pro-
motion of all drives.





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