HEITFIELD
HELM
1850-52, for the benefit of his health and on his
return lie opened an ecclesiastical school in his
house which led to the founding of the Provincial
seminary of St. Francis de Sales of which he was
the first rector. When the diocese of La Crosse
was set off from the dio-
cese of Milwaukee in 1868,
Father Heiss was named
bishop for the new see and
was consecrated Sept. 6,
18GS. by Bishop Henni as-
sisted by Bishops Lefevre
and Grace. He established
the Franciscan
Slaters in La
Crosse ;
John's
under
of the
St.
college
charge
Chris-
Sr. JUHAIS CAThEPRAL
tian Brothers
in Prairie du
Chien ; founded
new parishes and erected several new churches;
built a cathedral and an episcopal residence
and opened twenty-five parochial schools and two
asylums. He doubled the number of churches
in his diocese during his administration. On
March 14, 1880, he was appointed titidar bishop
of Adrianople and coadjutor to Archbishop
Henni of Milwaukee with right of succession,
and on Sept. 7, 1881, succeeded to the metro-
politan. He received his pallium, April 23,
1882. In the Baltimore covmcil of 1849, the St.
Louis council of 1855, and the plenary council
of 1866 he was prominent as a theologian. At the
Vatican coimcil of 1869-70, he was a chief member
and a member of one of the four great commis-
sions, each consisting of twelve bishops repre-
senting the entire world. He died in La Crosse,
Wis., March 26, 1890.
HEITFIELD, Henry, senator, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 12, 1859 ; son of Henry and Marrie Theresa (Winkelman) Heitfield. His parents were natives of Germany. He received his earlj- education in the schools of St. Louis, removing to Seneca, Kan., in 1870, thence to Washington Territory in 1882, and thence in 1883 to Idaho where he engaged in farming and stock raising. He was elected a state senator in 1894 and re- elected in 1896. He was elected United States senator as a Populist, Jan. 28, 1897, and took his seat March 4, 1897 ; his term expiring March 3, 1903.
HEITMAN, John Franklin, educator, was born in Davidson county, N.C., April 17, 1840; son of Henry N. and Eve (McCrary) Heitman, and grandson of John F. C. and Nancy Heitman; and of John and Sarah McCrarj'. His paternal grandfather, John F. C. Heitman, oame to Amer-
ica from German3' early in the nineteenth century
and his maternal great^ grandfather, Hugh Mc-
Ci-ary, came from Ireland about 1760-70. He en-
tered Trinity college, N.C., in 1861, and the
following year joined the Confederate army serv-
ing until the close of the war, being wounded at
Fredericksburg, captured near ApiJomattox and
imprisoned for several months on Johnson's Is-
land. He was graduated from Trinity college in
1868, and soon after entered the Methodist Epis-
copal ministry and preached in A-aricus places
until 1881. In 1882 he founded and became editor
of the XoHh Carolina Educational Journal which
he continued until 1887. In 1883 he accepted the
professorship of Greek and German in Trinity
college, and was transferred successively to the
chairs of German and metaphysics, Greek and
metaphysics, and metaphysics and theology. He
was chairman of the faculty and president of the
college, ex officio, 1884-87. On the removal of the
college to Durham, N.C., he resigned his profes-
sorship and became headmaster of Trinity high
school, established in the old college building.
HELM, Benjamin, pioneer, was born in Fair- fax county, Va.. May 8, 1767; son of Capt. Thomas Helm, a pioneer settler of Kentucky, wha removed from Virginia to the Falls of the Ohio in the fall of 1779. In the spring of 1780 Captain Helm, Col. Andrew Haynes and Samuel Hay- craft located where Elizabethtown now stands and built three forts and blockhouses, locating^ them on a triangle one mile apart, and they were known as Helm's Station, Haynes's Station and Haycraft's Station. In 1801-03 Captain Helm erected the first brick house built in the place. Benjamin became a surveyor ; was state senator, 1796-1800; clerk of the Hardin county courts, 1800-17; an officer with the rank of major in the war of 1812 ; :Slled various other offices of honor and trust in Kentucky ; purchased the farm owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie (Bush) Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abra- ham Lincoln, from his heirs ; and was a partner in the general stoi-e of the place with Duff Green, conducting the business as Green & Helm. Major Helm's widow, Mary Helm, died in 1871, aged 94 years, and the major died at Elizabeth- town, Ky., Feb. 24. 1858. nearly 91 years of age.
HELM, Benjamin Hardin, soldier, was born in Elizabethtown, Ky., in 1830; son of John Larue and Lucinda Barbour (Hardin) Helm, and grandson of George B. Helm and of Benjamin Hardin. He was graduated at the L^.S. military academy in 1851, was assigned to the dragoon service at the U.S. cavalry school, Carlisle, Pa., and was aftei-^vard on frontier duty at Fort Lin- coln, Texas. He resigned from the army in 1852, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and practised law in Elizabethtown, 1854-58, and at
