Bio of HELMER, Samuel O., Wright Co., MN 
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324          HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

	Samuel 0. Helmer, an estimable citizen of Buffalo, now retired, 
was born in Wood county, Ohio, son of Philip Van Rensselaer and Hannah 
(Swain) Helmer. The Helmers are descended from a family that came from 
Holland in the seventeenth century. Philip was one of four brothers, 
Philip, Peter, John and James. Peter settled in Indiana and James in 
Wisconsin, while John remained in New York. Philip, after having married 
Hannah Swain (daughter of Horace Swain, of New York, who afterward located 
in Indiana, where he died), came westward about 1845 and located in Ohio, 
where he hauled boats on the Miami canal, which had just been completed. 
About 1851 he located in LaGrange county, Indiana, where he farmed. 
He died there about 1860. His wife died in 1902 at the age of seventy-
four. Samuel 0. was the only child in the family. He received a good 
education in the schools of Indiana and was reared to farm pursuits. 
As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade. In