Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hellyer, Howard A., Dr
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Wrightstown Township


   Dr. HOWARD A. HELLYER physician and surgeon, P.O. Penn's 
Park, was born in Wrightstown township, October 22, 1845, 
and is a son of William and Lydia (Twining) Hellyer, natives 
of Bucks county.  The Hellyer family came from England in 
the 17th century, and settled in the lower end of this 
county.  The grandfather, William, was a farmer.  His son, 
William, moved to Upper Makefield township in 1846, and 
followed farming until 1880.  He had three grown children:  
Harrison, deceased; Hannah, wife of Krusen Harvey, and Dr. 
Howard, who was reared on a farm until he had attained the 
age of 18 years, when he entered the Carversville Excelsior 
Normal Institute, where he remained two years.  He then 
studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin N. Collins for two 
years.  In 1866 he entered the medical department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in March, 
1868, in the one hundredth commencement class of that 
institution.  He commenced practice the same year at Forest 
Grove, and remained there two years.  In 1870 he came to 
Penn's Park. During his seventeen years' practice in this 
place he has built up a good business, and has the patronage 
of over two hundred good families.  He has bought property 
in the village of Penn's Park, and is living in quite 
comfortable circumstances.  In June, 1868, he married Fannie 
E. Olmstead, by whom he has eight children, of whom six are 
living: Edwin F., Grace E., Mabel F., Arthur, Harold and 
George.   Those deceased are Willie and Eugene.  The doctor 
if a member of Lodge No. 54, I. O. O. F., and Encampment No. 
77.  Mrs. Hellyer is a member of the Episcopal church.