Editing Harry Heilmann (section)

==Early years==
Heilmann was born in [[San Francisco]] in 1894.<ref name=BR/>  His father, Richard W. Heilmann, was born in 1860 at [[Sacramento, California]], the son of an Irish mother and a father from [[Saxony]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Death notice for Mary Heilmann, Harry's paternal grandmother|newspaper=The San Francisco Cal|date=October 6, 1893|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133480/death_notice_for_mary_heilmann/}}</ref><ref name=CSL>California State Library; California History Section; Sacramento, California; Miscellaneous Card Indexes: Vital Statistics Index (1900–1951); Reel #: 17; California History Room: Microfilm # 734. Ancestry.com. California Biographical Collection: Responses to Vital Record Inquiries, 1822-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.</ref><ref>Year: 1880; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Roll: 75; Family History Film: 1254075; Page: 562D; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0826. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.</ref>  His mother, Mary (McVoy) Heilmann, sometimes referred to as Mollie, was born in 1864 in [[County Roscommon]], Ireland.<ref name=CSL/><ref name=C10>1910 Census entry of Mary Heilmann and family.</ref>  Harry was the couple's fourth surviving child, having an older sister, May, and two older brothers, Richard Jr., and Walter.<ref name=DN>{{cite news|title=Death notice for Walter Heilmann|newspaper=San Francisco Call|date=June 9, 1908|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133045/heilmann/}}</ref><ref name=DNRichard/> Heilmann's father operated a soap business,<ref name=Soap>{{cite news|title=Notice of transaction|newspaper=The San Francisco Call|date=June 22, 1897|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133373/notice_re_sale_of_soap_business/}}</ref> ran as a Republican for the office of Supervisor of San Francisco's Ninth Ward in 1896,<ref>{{cite news|title=untitled|newspaper=The San Francisco Call|date=October 30, 1896|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133281/election_notice_for_richard_w_heilmann/}}</ref> and died in June 1897 at age 36.<ref name=DNRichard>{{cite news|title=Death notice for Richard W. Heilmann|newspaper=The San Francisco Call|date=June 16, 1897|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133552/death_notice_for_richard_w_heilmann/}}</ref> As a boy in the 1890s and continuing at least through the time of the 1900 Census, Heilmann lived with his family at 708A Brannan Street in what is now the [[South of Market, San Francisco|South of Market]] district of San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death notice for Francis Walter Heilmann|newspaper=The San Francisco Call|date=May 14, 1895|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133253/death_notice_for_francis_walter_heilmann/}}</ref><ref name=Soap/><ref name=DNRichard/><ref>Year: 1900; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Roll: 101; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0067; FHL microfilm: 1240101. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.</ref>

Heilmann's older brother, Walter, was a gifted athlete who attended [[Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory]] (then "Sacred Heart College") in San Francisco.  On June 3, 1908, a year after the city's [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|devastation by earthquake]], Walter died at age 16 while on a sailboat excursion with three schoolmates to visit the battleship ''[[USS Connecticut (BB-18)|USS Connecticut]]'' in drydock at the [[Hunters Point Naval Shipyard]], near the present site of [[Candlestick Park]]. The boat capsized in a squall, and Walter drowned while trying to swim to shore; the other three boys were rescued.<ref>{{cite news|title=Capsized Boat Claims Life of a Bright Student|newspaper=San Francisco Call|date=June 4, 1908|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5132912/capsized_boat_claims_life_of_a_bright/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Schoolboys' Outing Results in Tragedy: Walter R. Heilmann Drowns in Bay While Swimming Ashore From Boat|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=June 4, 1908|page=16|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133882/schoolboys_outing_results_in_tragedy/}}</ref><ref name=DN/>

As of 1910, Heilmann was living with his mother at 112 Sixteenth Street in the [[Dogpatch, San Francisco|Dogpatch]] neighborhood of San Francisco.<ref name=C10/> Heilmann followed his older brother to what is now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory,<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Harry Heilmann|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=April 25, 2016|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heilmha01.shtml}}</ref> where he played baseball,<ref>San Francisco Call article, dated April 28, 1911 and San Francisco Examiner article, dated April 28, 1911</ref> track and field, and [[basketball]].<ref name=LAT/>  He graduated from Sacred Heart in 1912 at age 17 with a collegiate certificate.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sacred Heart College Science and Literary Students to Graduate|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=June 20, 1912|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5133817/sacred_heart_college_science_and/}}</ref>  After graduating from Sacred Heart, Heilmann worked as a bookkeeper for the Mutual Biscuit Company.<ref name=LAT/>