Daniel Collamore Heath

Daniel C. Heath was born in Salem, Maine on October 26, 1843.

[1][2] He studied at Nichols Latin School and Bates College (then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating from Amherst College in 1868.

Heath worked as a high school principal for two years before briefly attending Bangor Theological Seminary.

After traveling through Europe for a year, Heath returned to the United States and worked for Edwin Ginn, a publisher.

[1][2] He married Nellie Jones Knox on January 6, 1881, and they had four children.