Career
Healey invested in land including the northwest corner of Marietta and Peachtree Streets where he built the first Healey Building. Healey"s other endeavors included:
In 1873, co-founded the Bank of the State of Georgia
From 1877 to 1882, president of the Atlanta Gas Light Company
In the 1880s, president of the West End & Atlanta Street Railroad
Executive Committee of the 1881 International Cotton Exposition
Director of Joel Hurt"s Atlanta Home Insurance Company
City alderman-at-large (1881) and mayor pro tem (1884)
The William-Oliver Building was built on the site of the first Healey Building in 1930, and is named after Healey"s two grandsons.
