My Genealogy Hound

DAVID S. HELT, contractor, carpenter, and builder, was born March 31, 1855, in Franklin county, Illinois, and removed with his father’s family, when a babe, to Washington county, Pennsylvania, His father, John, was a farmer, who died in Illinois in 1855. Married March 9, 1879, to Mary Speer, who was born in Indiana in 1857. The children are Eva O. and Herbert R, who died June 5, 1881. Both Mr. and Mrs. Helt are members of the Christian Church, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1877 Mr. Holt came to Carthage, and now resides immediately south of the M. E, Church (South) in a neat two-story frame house on Howard Avenue. His place of business is just north of the Harrington Hotel. He and his partner, under the firm name of Powell & Helt, have built some of the finest public buildings in Carthage, as well as many private residences. He built the residence of Mr. Gregory, Congregational parsonage, Mr. Warden’s new residence, Mr. John Wilson’s farm-house, and C. M. Etters’s fine country residence, besides some of the best country church buildings. Mr. Helt is a man of intelligence and commendable pride; he can say what all carpenters, so-called, are unable to, and that is that he served a four years apprenticeship with Powell, Gregg & Co. in Little California on the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, thereby becoming thoroughly acquainted with the elements and principles of first class carpentering.