Daniel C. HEGER

 

Daniel C. HEGER was a native son of California, a representative of an honored pioneer family, was a man of exceptional talent and business ability, and was the organizer of the D. C. HEGER Company, engaged in business in San Francisco, and of this company he continued the executive head until his death.

 

Daniel C. HEGER was born in San Francisco, on the 3^rd of February, 1867, a son of John and Martha (THODAY) HEGER. The father came to San Francisco from Lockport, New York, in the year 1853, and became one of the pioneer merchant tailors of the California metropolis, where he built up a large and representative business under the title of the HEGER Tailoring Company, with which he continued his active association until his death, December 15, 1916, his widow being now a resident of Berkeley, this state.

 

The public-school discipline of David C. HEGER included that of the Boys’ High School in his native city, and thereafter he continued his studies effectively in the University of California.  His independent business career was primarily in connection with the firm of D.C. HEGER Company, of which he was the founder, and he was one of the popular and progressive business men of San Francisco at the time when his earnest, worthy and fruitful life came to its close.  His sterling characteristics and genial personality gained to him a veritable host of friends, and he was identified with representative civic and social organizations, including Stanford Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, the San Francisco Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Pacific Union and the Commonwealth clubs in his native city.  Mr.  HEGER traveled extensively in Europe, and was well known as a connoisseur of art, he having been deeply interested in all that tended to advance the cultural interests of his home city.

 

On the 30^th of September, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.  HEGER and Miss Anna H. DARLING, who survives him and whose attractive home in San Francisco is at 2428 Jackson Street.  S. Ralph HEGER, the only child of this union, was twenty-three yars of age when he succeeded his honored father as head of the D.C. HEGER Company, and in every way he is upholding the high prestige of a family name that has long been honored in San Francisco.  He was graduated from the University of California, with the degree of Bachelor of Letters, and later was graduated from Georgetown University, in the District of Columbia, he having thereafter taken a course in the law department of St. Ignatius College, San Francisco, and having been admitted to the bar in 1921.  At the age of twenty-one years S. Ralph HEGER was united in marriage with Miss Geraldine Fitzgibbons, whose father was one of the founders of St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco.  Mr. HEGER made high record as an all-around athlete while in college, and still continues to take lively interest in athletic sports.  He is a popular member of the Olympic Club in his native city.