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Acc.1932; DOC1959,1
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Title: Heron (David Donald) Collection - Micronesia
Dates: 1938 - 1961: majority of materials 1940s and 1950s
Collection Number: Acc.1932; DOC1959,1
Creator/Collector:
D. Donald Heron
Extent: One (1) banker box including documents, photographs, letters, and maps; and fifty-one (51) permanent collection items.
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UC Berkeley. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Berkeley, California 94720-3712
Abstract: The D. (David) Donald Heron Archive documents Heron’s career in the United States Navy which included military administrative
roles on Yap and Palau, Micronesian Islands during World War II and into the early decades of the Cold War throughout the
Pacific.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Heron (David Donald) Collection - Micronesia. Collection Number: Acc.1932; DOC1959,1. UC Berkeley.
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Given to the museum in memory of D. Donald Heron by Anne Heron in 1964.
Biography/Administrative History
David Donald Heron (1903-1964) was born in San Jose, California on January 7, 1903, and held permanent residence in San Francisco.
Prior to World War II, Heron worked in finance at Irving Lundbord & Co. in San Francisco, becoming a general partner in 1934.
Once World War II began, he retired from the brokerage business and enlisted in the Navy as a Lieutenant. On October 5, 1945
he was made Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) of the U.S. Navy Reserve, and was appointed Commanding Officer of the Naval Auxiliary
Air Station in Quillayute, Washington. In September 1946, he was appointed Executive Officer of the Naval Military Government
Unit in Koror, Palau Islands, as well as Deputy Civil Administrator at Koror and Deputy Governor of the Western Caroline Islands.
From 1947 to 1948 while on inactive duty, he worked in the office of the Deputy High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands as the Director of Economic Affairs. In October 1949, he worked in Pearl Harbor as Director of Internal
Affairs. On July 5, 1951 Heron was appointed Director, Political Affairs for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, no
longer in naval capacity. He served as District Administrator on Yap from 1953 - March 1955 and District Administrator on
Pohnpei (Ponape) from October 1958 - June 12, 1959. Heron died in 1964.
Scope and Content of Collection
Accession: Acc.1932 Catalog numbers: 11-37434 to 11-37473; 11-37477; 11-39225 to 11-39229 contains forty (40) ethnographic
items from Palau, Ulithi, and Yap Islands; maps, books, publications, flag, and personal files of field notes are held in
the archive under DOC1959.1.
Political Affairs for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
United States Naval Reserve Force
United States Navy Reserve
Micronesia
Yap
Palau
Ulithi