Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Helms, John S. March 23, 1871 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.95  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        JOHN SULLIVAN HELMS, M. D. The broad field of medical endeavor offers 
much to the conscientious man in the way of public service, research, teaching, 
surgery, public health, general practice or in following some particular path 
perhaps, and through some combination of methods and manners which are 
individual and distinctive proved natural ability and careful training. The 
position of today must possess a wide range of general culture, must be an 
observant clinician and well-read neurologist. The stamp of an original mind is 
never more to be observed than in the case of the hard-worked medical man whose
soul has often fainted within him when studying the mysteries of his calling.
Among the many skilled and distinguished medical men of Hillsborough County one
who has gained special notice through his steady nerve, patience, technical
manual skill and the courage which is distinctive of his profession is Dr. JOHN
SULLIVAN HELMS of Tampa.
	Doctor Helms was born at Ashland, Benton County, Mississippi, March 23, 
1871. He attended the public schools at Memphis, Tennessee, and Union 
University of Jackson, Tennessee, receiving therefrom the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. Subsequently he attended the medical department of the University of 
Tennessee, and was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He 
received an appointment as intern in the city and county hospitals of Memphis, 
and remained in that city for five years, during which time he was advanced 
from intern to house surgeon. Resigning from this hospital work he came to 
Florida, and, locating first in Manatee County, practiced there from 1896 to 
1900, in the latter year moving to Tampa. As a surgeon he stands at the head of 
the profession, and as a citizen he is one of the most valued in the city. He 
is chief of staff and director of the division of surgery at Bayside Hospital, 
one of the best equipped hospitals in the country, occupying a fine location on
Bayshore
Bayshore Boulevard, fronting the bay. He was disqualified physically from 
actual service during the World war, but gave valuable aid at home as a member 
of the medical section of the Council of National Defense, and served as 
chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of District Number 3 in the Selective 
Draft System. Doctor Helms spends a month or more each year in the large 
hospitals of the North and East and in other ways keeps himself thoroughly 
abreast of the wonderful progress made in his profession. Four years he has 
been a member of the Hillsborough County Medical Society, the Florida State 
Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, is a Fellow of the 
American College of Surgeons, a member of the Southern Medical Association, the 
Southern Surgical Association, the American Public Health Association, the 
Society for the Study of Endocrinology. He has served the county and state 
medical societies as president, and is a member of the House of Delegates of 
the National Association; is a member of the Board of Governors of the American 
College of Surgeons, a member of the committee on standards of the American 
College of Surgeons, a member of the executive committee and counselor of the 
Florida section of the American College of Surgeons, and chairman of the 
committee on Hospital Standardization for the State of Florida and the American 
Medical Association. Fraternally he maintains membership with the Masons and 
Elks. He is a member of the Rotary, Tampa Yacht and Country and the Rocky Point 
and Palma Ceia Golf clubs.
	Doctor Helms married ANNA B. HOWZE, and their children are: KATHRYN,
who is the wife of EARLE CRAFT and JOHN SULLIVAN, Junior. It would be difficult
to find a man more thoroughly representative of the best interests of his
profession then Doctor Helms, and the public service he has rendered, and is
still giving, cannot be estimated in material terms, but lies in that finer,
higher realm of exalted citizenship.


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