BIO: GEORGE ELLSWORTH HELFRICH, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 372-373
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    GEORGE ELLSWORTH HELFRICH, junior member of the firm of Helfrich & Son,
  junk dealers of Shippensburg, was born in Berks county, Oct. 18, 1871,
  youngest son of Daniel W. and Henrietta (Babst) Helfrich.
    
    Levi Helfrich, his grandfather, was also a native of Berks county, where he
  was a prosperous farmer and dealer in live stock. He died in 1876, and his
  wife in 1890. They
    
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  were the parents of fourteen children, eight of whom lived to maturity and
  are located in Berks county.
    
    Daniel W. Helfrich was born in Berks county, on a farm, April 4, 1838. He
  spent his youth on the farm, and received only a common school education, but
  was taught the carpenter's trade, following it until 1883, when he moved to
  Shippensburg and established himself in the business of a junk dealer. During
  the Civil war, Mr. Helfrich served his county as a soldier, enlisting in
  Company I, 179th. P. V. I., Col. Noter commanding, and remained for a term of
  nine months, when he was honorably discharged, and returned to Berks county.
  In 1858, Mr. Helfrich was married, by the Rev. James Eckersley, at Liverpool,
  Pa., to Henrietta Babst of Berks county, born Jan. 22, 1836, daughter of John
  and Elizabeth (Ernest) Babst, and to this union seven children were born:
  Henry R., in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad at Harrisburg; Mary,
  deceased; Annie E., who married David R. Shope; Elizabeth J., who married
  Stewart Smith; Katie E., deceased; Sallie, who married Will Fosnote; and
  George Ellsworth.
    
    In politics Mr. Helfrich is a Democrat, and for three years he was a member
  of the council, and for three more assessor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Helfrich are
  prominent members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Helfrich is a member of
  Corporal McLean Post No. 423, G. A. R.
    
    George Ellsworth Helfrich was educated in the public schools, and completed
  his school career in the Shippensburg high school. Upon leaving school, he
  became associated with his father under the firm name now prevailing, as
  above stated. The firm has branches at Chambersburg, Pa., Winchester, Va.,
  and other points throughout the country, at which places junk is gathered
  together and shipped to Shippensburg by the carload lots.
    
    In 1890, Mr. Helfrich was married to Miss Annie Charles, a daughter of
  Jacob and Annie (Grubbs) Charles, the former a grocer of Shippensburg; he was
  born in Perry county, Pa., Jan. 4, 1836, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Deitrich
  Charles. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Helfrich are the parents of five children:
  Charles, Esther, Anna George E. and Hazel: Mr. Helfrich is a member of the
  Order of American Mechanics, and the Knights of the Golden Eagle, as well as
  of the Improved Order of Red Men. Both he and his wife take great interest in
  Sunday School work. They have a substantial brick home, where they dispense a
  gracious and cordial hospitality to their many friends. Mr. Helfrich is a man
  whose integrity and uprightness of purpose cannot be doubted, and he is an
  enterprising and public-spirited young business man, whose field of operation
  is annually extending and enlarging.