Oscar Stuart HEIZER

Background

HEIZER, Oscar Stuart was born on February 7, 1868 in Kossuth, Iowa, United States. Son of David Blair and Sarah Louise (Peet) Heizer.

Education

Education high school and Chautauqua course.

Career

Deputy Consul General, Constantinople, Turkey, 1906. Vice and Dep. Consul General, Constantinople, 1908, Marshal, 1911. Vice Consul, Constantinople, 1915.

Consul, class 8, 1915, and assigned to Trebizond. Detailed to Constantinople, 1916, to Bagdad, 1917. Promoted to Consul, class 7, 1917, class 6, 1919.

Detailed to Jerusalem, 1920. Promoted to class 5, 1920. Assigned to Jerusalem, 1923.

Promoted to class 4, 1923, to Algiers, 1928, class 3, 1930. Consul at Bagdad when the Turks evacuated and the British forces entered. Consul at Trebizond when the Turks evacuated and the Russians took possession.

Membership

Member: Sons of the American Revolution.

• Member of Sons of the American Revolution.

Connections

Married Ida Wright, of Corning, Iowa, June 22, 1898. Children: Mistress Helen Cattell, Randolph Wright, Pauline, Beatrice, Vivian.

Father:

David Blair Heizer

Mother:

Sarah Louise (Peet) Heizer

Spouse:

Ida Wright

child:

Randolph Wright Heizer

child:

Beatrice Heizer

child:

Vivian Heizer

child:

Pauline Heizer

child:

Mistress Helen Cattell Heizer