Greene-Brown County IN Archives Biographies.....Helms, A. S. 1846 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   HON. A. S. HELMS, Worthington, was born in Wayne Township, Belmont Co., Ohio,
August 13, 1846, and when eight years old moved with his father to Brown County,
Ind., where his early years were passed, the summer months on a farm and during
the winter months attending public school. On the 4th day of August, 1862, while
yet a mere boy, his youthful blood was fired by the spirit of patriotisn, [sic]
and he enlisted in the United States service, and was mustered on the 9th of the
same month as a member of Company I, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
From this time until the close of the war, he was in active service,
participating in all the battles of his regiment from and including Buzzard's
Roost to the fall of Atlanta, also participating in the Hood campaign and siege
of Nashville, and the campaign in the Carolinas from the gulf to the fall of
Raleigh and close of the war. He returned home to Brown County, Ind, in the fall
of 1865, and was elected Justice of the Peace for Jackson Township, serving from
1875 to 1879. He was Postmaster at Bean Blossom six years, and also served as
Postmaster at Nashville one term. In January, 1880, he moved to Worthington,
where he has since resided, identified with the best interests of Greene County.
Until January 1, 1883, he was editor and proprietor of the Worthington Times,
and for two years, ending January 1, 1883, was Worthington's Postmaster. He
resigned this last position to take his seat in the Lower House of the State
Legislature, having been duly elected to this responsibility by the majority of
intelligent voters of Greene County.

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Jefferson Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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