1838 he organized the first German congregation outside of St. Louis at Washington, Franklin co., Mo., and founded a church. From Washington he made his way through the wilderness, with compass in hand, to Westphalia, Osage co., where he organized a church and founded a mission. In course of time he organized congregations and built churches in Rich Fountain in the same county, in Saint Thomas and Jefferson City, in Toas, Cole co., in Booneville, Cooper co., and in several other places. His missionary labors extended to Westport and Independence, the extreme western settlements of the state. For the last twenty-four years of his life he was principally stationed at Toas, near Jefferson City. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he continued to perform his functions until the day before his death.
HELLMUTH, Isaac, Canadian Anglican
bishop, b. in Warsaw, Poland, 14 Dec., 1819. He
is of Jewish descent, was educated at Breslau, and,
having been converted to Christianity and ordained
in the Anglican church, settled in Canada about
1856. He was appointed successively archdeacon
and dean of the diocese of Huron, and on 24 Aug.,
1870, was consecrated coadjutor-bishop, with the
title of bishop of Norfolk. In 1871, on the death of
Bishop Cronyn, Dr. Hellmuth succeeded him as
bishop of Huron, but resigned this office in 1883 on
being appointed assistant bishop in the diocese of
Ripon. Since 1885 he has been rector of Bridlington,
Yorkshire. While in Canada he established
Huron college for the education of the future
clergy of the diocese, and was principal and divinity
professor in it in 1863. A few months afterward
the London collegiate school, since named Hellmuth
college, was erected, and he also established a
ladies' college, which was opened in 1869.
HELM, Israel, colonist, b. in Sweden; d. after
1693. He was one of the early emigrants from
Sweden to the Delaware. In 1659 he resided at
Passyunk, now in Philadelphia, and was employed
there as collector of customs. In 1668 he, with
others, obtained from Gov. Nicolls a grant of land
embracing nearly the whole of Calken Hook, and
in the same year was appointed a member of Capt.
Carr's council. In 1674 he was commissioned as
one of the justices “for the river,” and doubtless
assisted in holding a court at Upland some years
before the “Upland court,” of which the records
have been preserved, and of which he was also one
of the justices. Having learned the language of
the Indians, he was frequently employed as an
interpreter, and acted as such in 1675 at the conference
between Gov. Andros, the magistrates of New
Castle, Del., and the Indian sachem of New Jersey,
when the treaty of peace was renewed. He had
acquired the title of captain, and, as the Swedish
government sent a considerable number of Swedish
soldiers to the colony, it may reasonably be
supposed that he first came in a military capacity.
During his residence on the Delaware he made a
visit to his native country.
HELM, John Larue, governor of Kentucky, b.
in Hardin county, Ky., 4 July, 1802; d. in Elizabethtown,
Ky., 8 Sept., 1867. He was descended from
Maj. Benjamin and Capt. Leonard Helm, of
Fauquier county, Va., early pioneers of Kentucky, who
were distinguished in Indian warfare. At an
early age he was employed in the office of the
circuit clerk, afterward studied law, was admitted to
the bar, and appointed county attorney. He was
in the state house of representatives in 1826-'37,
and state senator from 1844 till 1848 and again
from 1865 till 1867. when he resigned. He
presided in the legislature seven years, was elected
lieutenant-governor in 1848, and in 1850 became
governor, which office he held till 1852. In 1854
he was made president of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. He was again chosen governor of
Kentucky after the civil war, and was inaugurated
at his residence in Elizabethtown on 3 Sept., 1867,
five days before his death. — His son, Ben Hardin,
soldier, b. in Elizabethtown, Ky., in 1830; d. in
Georgia, 21 Sept., 1863, was graduated at the U. S.
military academy in 1851, assigned to the 2d
dragoons, and served in the cavalry-school for practice
at Carlisle, Pa., and on frontier duty at Fort
Lincoln, Texas. He resigned his commission on 9
Oct., 1852. From 1854 till 1858 he practised law
in Elizabethtown. and from 1858 till 1861 in
Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky
legislature in 1855-'6, and commonwealth attorney
for the 3d district of Kentucky from 1856 till
1858. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as
colonel of the 1st Kentucky cavalry, served at
Shiloh, and was made brigadier-general in March,
1862. He took part in the battles of Perryville
and Stone River, where he commanded a division,
led a Kentucky brigade at Vicksburg in the summer
of 1862, and commanded a division at Chickamauga,
where he was fatally wounded.
HELMUTH, Justus Christian Henry,
clergyman, b. in Helmstadt, Brunswick, Germany, 16
May, 1745; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 5 Feb., 1825.
His father died when the son was a mere boy, but
a nobleman sent him to the orphan house in Halle,
and afterward to the university there, where he
received a thorough education in the classics and
theology. He was ordained to the ministry at
Wernigerode in 1769, and in the same year came to this
country in response to an urgent call from Lutheran
congregations in Pennsylvania. On his arrival,
he was at once elected pastor of the congregation
at Lancaster, Pa., for ten years, and in 1779 he
removed to Philadelphia in answer to a unanimous
call from St. Michael's, the first Lutheran
congregation in the city. Here he spent the remainder of
his life, serving as pastor until 1820. The
University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the
honorary degree of A. M. in 1780, and that of D. D.
in 1785. In the same institution he held for eighteen
years the chair of German and Oriental
languages, and was regarded as one of the best
linguistic scholars of his time. In 1785, with his
colleague and intimate friend, Dr. Schmidt, he
established a private seminary at Philadelphia, for the
education of young men for the ministry, which
continued for twenty years, until age and pressure
of other labors prevented them from attending
properly to the work. In this private institution
many of the early Lutheran pastors received their
theological training. Dr. Helmuth was frequently
elected to ecclesiastical offices of honor and trust,
and was identified with many of the public institutions
of Philadelphia. Though he was partial to
the German language, it did not prevent him from
taking an interest in the various activities,
educational and religious, of his adopted country. His
published works include “Taufe und heilige
Schrift” (1793); “Unterhaltungen mit Gott”;
books for children, and a volume of German hymns.
For several years he edited the “Evangelical Magazine,”
a German periodical of Philadelphia.
HELPER, Hmton Rowan, author, b. near Mocskville, Davie co., N. C, 27 Dec, 1829. He was graduated at Mocksville academy in 1848. In 1851 he went to California by way of Cape Horn, and spent nearly three years on the Pacific coast. He was appointed U. S. consul at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, in 1861, and held this office
