Heron, Flodden W. | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Flodden W. Heron was born in Illinois between 1874 and 1877. Heron lived in San Francisco for much of his adult life, where he was likely married and then widowed before 1940. An insurance broker by profession, he collected rare books and came to be known as an authority on works by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).

Heron published the following articles on Lewis Carroll: "The 1866 Appleton Alice" in The Colophon 1.3 (1935): 422-7; "Lewis Carroll, amateur photographer: the story of two photographs" Camera Craft (Nov.1938): 507-511; and "Lewis Carroll: Inventor of Postage Stamp Case" Stamps 26.12 (March 1939).

Heron died in early 1952 and is likely buried in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.

"Flodden Heron Funeral Held" The San Francisco Call Bulletin, February 7, 1952. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1231995166/?match=1&terms=%22flodden%20heron%22

Population Schedule for San Francisco City, California. ED 38-162, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NAID 126120259. Records of the Bureau of the Census, RG 29. National Archives, Washington, DC. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/126120259