Background
Heard, Franklin Fiske was born on January 17, 1825 in East Sudbury (now Wayland), Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jonathan Fiske and Harriet (Stratton) Heard.
Heard, Franklin Fiske was born on January 17, 1825 in East Sudbury (now Wayland), Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jonathan Fiske and Harriet (Stratton) Heard.
Graduated from Harvard, 1848.
Admitted to Massachusetts bar, 1850, practiced law, Saxonville, Massachusetts, 1850-1884. Began writing legal works, 1853. Author: A Treatise on the Law of Libel and Slander, 1860.
Criminal Abortion, 1868.
The Principles of Criminal Pleading, 1870. Precedents of Equity Pleading, 1884.
Editor: Practical Treatise upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Prosecutions (Davis).
Married Harriet Hildreth, April. Married second, Martha B. Stone, April.