From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann.
 
p. 627 
 
DAVID GARTH HEARNE, a well known young business man of Wheeling, West  
Virginia, is president of the Eagle Fluor-Spar Company, which owns and  
operates mines in Kentucky.  He was born in Wheeling in 1870, and is a  
son of William L., and Laura (Ford) Hearne. 
    William L. Hearne was born in Sussex county, Delaware, and from 
there went to Missouri, where he remained until 1867, and then came to  
Wheeling, West Virginia.  During his business life he was largely  
interested in the iron industry, particularly in the Riverside Iron  
Works, of which he was the largest individual stockholder at the time  
of his death, February 13, 1895.  He was general manager and a director  
of this company until his retirement from active business in 1880.  He  
was then succeeded by his son, Frank J., who continued in that  
capacity, being also a director, until the consolidation of the plant  
with the United States Steel Corporation.  Frank J. Hearne is now first  
vice-president of the Nation Tube Company and is located in Pittsburg.  
William H. Hearne, a brother of the subject of this sketch, has been  
attorney for the company since 1876, and a director since his father's  
death, in 1895.  The second wife of William L. Hearne was Laura Ford, a  
daughter of J. B. Ford, deceased, formerly agent of the Baltimore &  
Ohio Railroad Company at Wheeling.  Four sons blessed this union,  
Namely:  Joseph F., deceased; George N., deceased; David Garth; and  
Julian G., who is interested in copper mining in Arizona. 
    David Garth Hearne received a good intellectual training in the 
public schools of Wheeling and in Linsly Institute.  The Eagle Fluor-Spar  
Company, of Wheeling, of which he is president, was incorporated in  
1898 with a capital stock of $200,000.  It has its main office at No.  
1321 Main street, Wheeling. 
    February 9, 1898, Mr. Hearne was joined in marriage with Ada 
Collins, of Quincy, Illinois, and they have one son, David Garth, Jr.,
who was born May 7, 1901.  Religiously, the parents are members of St.  
Matthew's Protestant Episcopal church.  Politically, Mr Hearne is a  
Republican and takes a deep interest in party affairs.