Daniel Steuben Helmer and Bertha Anne Hall

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Husband Daniel Steuben Helmer ¹

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           Born: 23 May 1863 - Coleville, McKean Co, PA 2
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         Father: Highwell Dunlap Helmer (1826-1912) 1
         Mother: Julia Jordan (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 2 Sep 1903 - Port Allegany, McKean Co, PA 2

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Wife Bertha Anne Hall ²

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         Father: John Gilbert Hall (1840-      ) 2
         Mother: Elnora Betsy Grinolds (1843-      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Doris Marion Helmer ²

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           Born: 24 May 1904 - Harrison Valley, PA 2
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         Spouse: Robert Goddard Hartman (      -      ) 2

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2 M James McKinley Helmer ²

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           Born: 7 Feb 1912 - Verona, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Steuben Helmer

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He obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of McKean County, Pennsylvania, and at schools in Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. He took a commercial course at Valparaiso, Indiana, whence he was graduated in the class of 1893. He took a law course at the same university, and was graduated in the class of 1895. He took a post-graduate course in law at Kent's College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, and having been admitted to the bar, practiced his profession for a number of years previous to settling at Port Allegany, where he had his office at Mill and Main streets. He was admitted to practice before the McKean County courts in 1900. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, before the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, and before the Circuit Court of the United States. He built up a desirable clientele in Port Allegany, where his business interests also were extensive. Besides large tracts of timber and gas lands, he was the owner of two farms.
Mr. Helmer was always a zealous adherent of the Republican Party. He served McKean County as a member of the County Committee, and the borough of Port Allegany as borough attorney and a member of the Borough Council, and as president of the School Board. During the First World War he rendered patriotic assistance to the United States government by serving as a deputy to receive enlistments for Company C, 112th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry.
Mr. Helmer's fraternal relations embrace membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was a Past Noble Grand, and he recently received from the order a "twenty-five year" jewel for continuous membership for that period. He was also affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men; and the Modern Woodmen of America. He was a member of the Business Men's Club of Port Allegany for twenty years; charter member of the Sons of the Veterans of the Civil War; and was a Member of the Rod and Gun Club. Both Mr. and Mrs. Helmer were been members of the First Presbyterian Church of Port Allegany.

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General Notes: Wife - Bertha Anne Hall

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She was a graduate of the Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, high school and of the Clarion (Pennsylvania) State Normal School, where she also did post-graduate work. She was a teacher for six years in the Port Allegany high school. She took the extension course in journalism at Pennsylvania State College. She held the office of Historian in Canoe Place Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; and was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; secretary of Canoe Place (Port Allegany) Historical Society; and historian for the Frank Burt Post, No. 258, American Legion Auxiliary.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 91.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 92.