Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Heldt, E 1842 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

E. HELDT. 

Among the respected enterprising farmers of Washington Township, the name of 
our subject deserves mention as that of one who in a comparatively short time 
has accumulated a fine property and secured a good position among the 
substantial men of the county. He owns and occupies two hundred acres of 
fertile land on section 27, and thereon has erected a full line of excellent 
farm buildings, including every convenient and necessary structure. 
Industrious and zealous in whatever he undertakes, upright in all the 
relations of life, and manifesting an intelligent interest in the advancement 
of the section in which he has made his home, Mr. Heldt is highly respected by 
his fellow-citizens. The parents of our subject were Christopher and Stenia 
Heldt, natives of Mecklenburg, Germany, in which Province their ten children 
were also borns. Two sons and six daughters lived to accompany their parents 
to America, to whose shores they set sail from Hamburg in May, 1856. Their 
passage was secured on the sailing-vessel "Oregon," which made a landing in 
New York City after a voyage of seven weeks and four days. The family soon 
afterward came to Chicago, and then located in Du Page County. They were very 
poor and at first had a hard time to get along, but they were industrious and 
determined, and soon their labors were rewarded by their ability to rent land, 
on which they made a good living. The parents were members of the Lutheran 
Church, and not only led upright lives, but endeavored to instill into the 
hearts of their children the principles of right living. The mother died in Du 
Page County, in September, 1864, when upwards of three-score and ten years of 
age. The bereaved husband came to Will County some months later, and died at 
the home of his son, William, in Washington Township, in 1868. He was seventy-
five years old. The natal day of our subject was January 20, 1842. In his 
native land he obtained the education which Germany ensures to all her sons, 
and labored with other members of the family as his growing strength would 
permit. After the removal to America, he settled with the others in Du Page 
County, Ill., remaining there until 1868. In the meantime he had passed his 
majority and had taken unto himself a companion in life, with whom he 
established his home in Will County on eighty acres, which forms a part of his 
present homestead. To this he added according to his ability, until the landed 
estate reached two hundred acres and all was placed in a fine condition. For 
nine years Mr. Heldt served as Road Commissioner, giving general satisfaction 
to the traveling public, and particularly to the agriculturists. His political 
adherence is given to the Republican party. He and the members of his family 
belong to the Lutheran Church. The lady with whom Mr. Heldt was united in 
marriage in Du Page County, bore the maiden name of Lucetta Stedt. She was 
born in Mecklenburg, Germany, January 8, 1843, and was fourteen years old when 
her parents came to this country. She remained with them in York Center 
Township, Du Page County, until her marriage. She is a woman of intelligence 
and genuine worth, who looks well to the ways of her household and endeavors 
to faithfully discharge every duty. (A full history of the family of which she 
is a member will be found in the biography of William Stedt.) Mr. and Mrs. 
Heldt have had eleven children and mourn the loss of Rosetta, Sophia, and an 
infant unnamed. The survivors are: William, a farmer in Washington Township, 
who married Emma Blevening; Amelia, wife of Henry C. Hausen, whose home is a 
farm in Crete Township; Charles, Emma, Fred, Ernst, Louis and Robert, who are 
yet at home.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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