Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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58 CLASS OF 1891 S., YALE COLLEGE. ago he was President of the Minneapolis club Qsocial organizationj, and is now on the Board of Governors of the Town and Country club of St. Paul, on the Board of Directors of the Commercial club, and on the Board of Governors of the Minneapolis club of Minneapolis, Minn. He is also very active in politics, being one of the district delegates to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1904, delegate from Minnesota to go with the nominating committee to notify President Roosevelt that he was the nominee of the Republican party, and is now on the State Executive Committee, pushing A. L. Cole for Governor of Minnesota. He is a member of Elks, Minneapolis and Commercial clubs, the University club of New York City, St. Paul Town and Country club, Cloister, Lafayette club Minnetonka and Minikahdi clubs. After graduation he returned to New Haven for a course in Railroading and Commercial Law. He left May 1, 1892, to take a posi- tion with the Great Northern Railroad in the State of Wasli- ington. He worked on the new construction, and when the road was turned over to the operating department, he obtained the position of Assistant Roadmaster. He stayed with the railroad company until August 1, 1893, when he resigned to take a position in his father's concern in 1894, and he has been there ever since. His travels have chiefly been in the United States, except one trip to Europe in the spring of 1902, when he spent four months working hard to improve his education in art galleries and old cathedrals. Heffelfinger says that up to date he has accomplished little, but has had a fine time and is well satisfied with life. He hopes in the future to amass sufhcient property to keep his family from the poorhouse, and to allow himself to take an active interest in local development along broad public lines. Business z1dd1'ess: North Star Shoe Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Home add1'ess.' 1725 3d Ave., So., Minneapolis, Minn.

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BIOGRAPHIES. 5 7 The balance of his vacation he took for recreation. Wfhile in college he took an active part in athletics. He played on the Football team four years, was a substitute on the Varsity Baseball team Freshman year, played on the Freshman Baseball and Football teams, put the weight and threw the hammer on the Track team Freshman year, rowed on the Varsity crew Senior year, was President of the Senior Class, was Vice President of the Football association in Senior year, and was a member of the Book 81 Snake society. His father, Christopher B. Herfelhnger, a shoe manu- facturer, with the North Star Shoe Co., of Minneapolis, Minn., was born january 18, 1834, in Shippensburg, Pa. His parents were Americans, antecedents from German Switzerland. He was married December 20, 1863, and is now President of the North Star Shoe Co., which concern he started in 1873, and was then its Treasurer and Manager. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ellen Totten, was born September 12, 1836, in Dillsburg, Pa. Her father came from Ireland in 1812, and her mother was of Scotch descent. He has four brothers: A. S. QChester Military Academyj, F. I. Clixeterj, Charles. F.. CYale I8Q7D, and Robert, who died in 1866, in Minneapolis, Minn., also three sisters: Mary E. QLa Salle Schoolj, Fannie C0gontz Schoolj, now Mrs. H. Selden, and Louise QOgontzj, now Mrs. I. F. Bell. He married, December 4, IQOI, at Kansas City, Mo., Grace Harriet Pierce, an attendant at Mrs. Dana's School, at Morristown, N. I., and daughter of jonathan Edwards Pierce, a stock raiser and rancher. They have one child, Nancy Pierce. February 1, 1904, Heffelfinger became Vice President and General Manager of the North Star Shoe Co., manu- facturers of shoes and jobbers of footwear. Since leaving college he was offered a Civil Service Commissionship by President Roosevelt, and for several years served as Presi- dent of the Minneapolis Iobbers' association. Three years

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Broonixrr-1113s. 59 EDWIN GUY HELM was born july 13, 1872, in Peru, WL L4 Ind. He prepared at the English High School, Boston, G ,sk Luk Mass., and entered Yale in the beginning of Freshman year, 'lv L'u '4 taking the Civil Engineering course. Before entering V Yale he passed one year at the Boys' Classical School, Indianapolis, Ind. He never received a condition', in any fy study, or in any examination while in college. His father, John Hampton Helm, a physician of Peru, Ind., was born April 18, 1826, in Elizabethtown, Tenn. His parents and antecedents were English. He was mar- i ried December 28, 1854, and died April 30, 1899, in Cin- cinnati, O. He was a graduate of Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, O., with the degree of M.D. His mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Ridewqoop -neesn, was born February 3, 1826, in Preble County, Ohio, and died january 14, 1905, in Cincinnati, O. He has one brother, Charles james CGeorgetown College A.B., 1883, Harvard Medical School M.D., I887D, and one sister, Maud Rockwell QSt. Marys of the Vifoodsj. He married, April 12, 1893, at Newark, N. I., Anna XfVeidig of New Haven, Conn., daughter of Carl VVeidig, a graduate of the School in Giessen, Germany, and a carriage builder of New Haven, Conn. They have three children: Carl Hampton, born December 6, 1894, Mildred Margaret, born September 25, 1896, and Gertrude Elizabeth, born September 30, 1898. january 15, 1897, Helm took up civil and consulting engineering in private engineering practice. He read a paper entitled, Levee and Drainage Problem of the Ameri- can Bottomsw before the St. Louis Engineers club April 5, 1905. It was published in the September, 1905, number of the Journal of Association of Engineering Societies. He was City Engineer of East St. Louis, Ill., from May, 1903, to November, 1904. He is a member of the Catholic church, St. Louis Railway and St. Clair Country clubs, St. Louis Engineers club, and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. From 1891 to 1893 did'