Rash's Surname Index
Notes for David Porter HEAP
HEAP, David Porter, engineer, was born in San Stefano, Turkey, March 24, 1843; son of Gwynn Harris and Eveline Cora (Porter) Heap, and grandson of Samuel Davies and Margaret (Porter) Heap and of Commodore David and Evelina (Anderson) Porter. He attended Georgetown college, D.C., and was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1861, serving in the army of the Potomac during the remaining year of the civil war. He was brevetted captain for gallantry during the siege of Petersburg, April 2, 1865. He was promoted captain, March 7, 1867, and in 1871 was engaged in exploring the section which afterward became Yellowstone national park. He was placed in charge of the engineering section of the war department exhibit at the Philadelphia exposition in 1876, and in 1881 was military representative of the United States at the Paris congress of electricians. He was promoted major of engineers, June 23, 1882, and lieutenant-colonel, May 10, 1895. In 1897 he was placed in charge of the defensive works on the coast of North Carolina, and in 1899 was transferred to the charge of the 3d lighthouse district and of the general lighthouse depot, with headquarters at Tompkinsville, N.Y. He is the author of History of the Application of the Electric Light to Lighting the Coasts of France (1883); Report of Engineer Department of the Philadelphia Exhibition (1884); Electrical Appliances of the Present Day (1884); Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (1887); and an article on lighthouses in the American supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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