The Editor Who Worked Himself to Death

George H. Heilbron, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died suddenly at his home Saturday morning from the effects of an overworked brain. He was born in Boston thirty-four years ago, and had entered upon a brilliant and promising career only a short time before, having become editor-in-chief upon the death of Frederic J. Grant, who perished with the ill-fated steamer Ivanhoe six months earlier. His physician had advised him to take a vacation, but thinking he could not be spared for even a short time, he toiled on until death resulted. Besides editing the Post-Intelligencer he was manager of the Seattle Guarantee Loan and Trust Company and a director in several other institutions. He was buried on Monday, and almost the entire city of Seattle attended his funeral, showing the high estimation in which the people who knew him held him in life. Tributes from newspapers throughout the state recalled that under his management the paper had grown from the position of a 'smart village newspaper' to the metropolitan journal it had become, without a rival north of Portland. His family will have the profound sympathy of the public in their hour of bereavement, and the consolation of knowing that his was a well-spent life.