All The Days of My Life:
The Autobiography of John H. Herion
as told to Gary A. Herion
$17.95 paperback, 104 pages
Published: January 2011
ISBN: 978-1-59715-075-0

Back in the mid-1970s, as part of a college history project at the University of North Carolina, Gary Herion sat down with his grandfather, John H. Herion, and began recording his many anecdotes about growing up early in the 20th century. The project mushroomed into a full-blown autobiography, All the Days of My Life, first published in 1985. Gary was struck by how little his grandfather knew about earlier family history. Twenty-five years later, Gary assisted his father, John C. Herion, in filling in these gaps and tracing Herion family roots back to 16th-century Germany. Their book, The Family He Would Never Know, was published by Chapel Hill Press in 2010. This new research inspired Gary to prepare this second edition of his grandfather’s autobiography containing up-to-date footnotes, new and corrected genealogical charts, and a special Addendum written by his father.     

JOHN H. HERION (1898–1991) was born in Baltimore and grew up in a family of railroad workers in Spencer and Salisbury, North Carolina. He and his wife, Helen Seaford, raised their three children in nearby Mount Pleasant, where he built up his business selling insurance. The photo shows him with his first great-grandchild, Melissa, around the time the first edition of his autobiography was published in 1985.
JOHN C. HERION (born 1927) is retired professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC.
GARY A. HERION (born 1954) is professor of religious studies at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.