Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 557. CHANCY A HEATH of the firm of C. A. Heath & Sons, real estate and loans, Grass Valley, Oregon, was born in Andover, Ohio, on October 6, 1842. His father, Albert Heath, born in Massachusetts, came from an old colonial family and died when ninety years and two months of age. Three brothers of the Heath family came to the United States long before the Revolution and their descendants are scattered well over the continent. In the Heath reunions in Ohio the attendance is four hundred and more each year. Eleazer Heath, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a Baptist preacher in New York and Ohio, and an early pioneer of the latter state. His father, the great-grandfather of our subject died at ninety-seven, and Eleazer Heath died when eighty-four years of age. Our subject's father was a mill wright and farmer. Our subject's great-grandfather had the following named children: David, Ebenezer, Eleazer, Joshua, Job, Timothy, Dorcas, who died aged ninety, Anna, and Polly, all early Ohio pioneers. The later generations of the family have many members, who are prominent at the bench and bar and in every professional line. Many of the family served in the Revolution and the War of 1812, and in the Civil war. The brothers of our subject's father were William, Warren, Joseph, Phyletus and James. His sisters were Marinda, Emmeline, Phydelia, Caroline and Phoebe. This latter woman was the mother of triplets, two boys and one girl, being named Clarence W., Clarenden W., and Caroline W. Their father was a Mr. Spaulding. Our subject's mother was Lucy (Cook) Heath, a native of New England and from a prominent colonial family. She was born in 1806. Our subject remained in Ohio until twenty-one years of age, being educated in the district schools. He was preparing for college when taken with a severe attack of western fever and he journeyed out west to Michigan and hired in the woods for sixteen dollars a month. When his first month was up, it was the only month he ever worked for wages, he began contracting for himself and remained until 1883. His health being broken, he came west and settled on land some five miles southwest of Grass Valley. He took a homestead and timber culture, and bought school land and, together with his sons, owns twenty-four hundred acres, twenty-one hundred of which are under cultivation. Mr. Heath and his two sons and their wives own nine hundred and sixty acres in Klamath county. They own in addition, some mining property in Crook county, and are prosperous people. On January 1, 1865, in Kent county, Michigan, Mr. Heath married Eliza J. Rhodes, a native of Schuyler county, New York. Her father, Erasmus W. Rose, was a native of England and in early life was master on a canal. He died in Michigan, on September 29, 1880. He had married Susan Simmons, a native of Catskill county, New York, who died in Michigan, on December 3, 1896. Our subject has three brothers living; Herman L., a farmer in Ohio, who has been blind since eighteen years of age: Adinoram J., a farmer in Ashtabula county, Ohio; William H., also a farmer, in Andover, Ohio. Mr. Heath also has three sisters, Clarissa P., the widow of R. E. French, of Grass Valley: Betsey E., the wife of N. S. Butler, in Ashtabula county, Ohio; Josephine L., the wife of B. F. Downing, in Lincoln county, Washington. He also has two brothers who died in infancy, Joseph L., and Luke W. Mrs. Heath has two brothers, Albert G., a merchant in St. Louis, and Elmer S., of Cedar Springs, Michigan, also a merchant. She also has the following named sisters: Emma A., the wife of A. R. Fairchild, a retired farmer of The Dalles; Viola S., the wife of Henry Garner, of Redfields, South Dakota; Almira, who died in infancy; and Elizabeth, who died when eleven. Mr. and Mrs. Heath are members of the Baptist church. He is a Republican and an active, energetic business man. He is also director of the Grass Valley Academy. Mr. Heath's two sons who are living are named elsewhere in this work, and he also has three who died in infancy. Arthur C., Milo M. and Ora L. Mr. Heath was very much broken in health when coming to this country, but is now strong and hearty and is one of the leading citizens of Sherman county. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.