HELPMAN, SIMON-Undertaker and
mayor, Polk
City. Is a native of
Fairfield
county, Ohio. Born on the 11th day of November, 1831, and when five
years of age his parents emigrated to Hancock county, that State. At
nineteen years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, and has made
mechanism his principal vocation during life. As early as the fall of
1856 he came to this State and located in Allamakee county, where he
remained for six years, and then removed to Kossuth county, remaining
there up to the time of his coming to his present location, the July of
1870. He enlisted as a recruit in the late war in company B,
Twenty-seventh Iowa infantry, in September, 1864, and served till its
close. Was married in Ohio,
December 21, 1854, to
Miss Ruth Hall, a native of that State. They have by this union a family
of one son living, J. B., and have lost one daughter, E. L. He is the
present incumbent of the office of city mayor, and is also a justice of
the peace, the latter he has held for seven years of the time that he
has been a resident of this place. Mr. Helpman is a man always
participating freely in such matters as will most benefit the community
in which he lives. strongly upholding the right, and on the other hand
vigorously opposing what he knows to be wrong.
"The History of Polk County, Iowa" published by the Union Historical
Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co. 1880.
Submitted by Marion John Rice
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