BIO: John E. HELLER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 345.
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  HELLER, JOHN E., was born in 1834, in Rush township, Dauphin county, 
Pa.  His early education was more or less limited, for at the age of 
thirteen we find him an apprentice to the art of printing in the office 
of the American, at Sunbury, Pa., where he remained until he was twenty 
years of age.  Afterwards, for several years, he was foreman in the 
office of the Miners' Journal, Pottsville.  He then began the study of 
law, and was admitted to the Dauphin county bar August 30, 1865, and 
began the practice of his profession at Harrisburg.  His life of labor 
was comparatively brief, however, for he died rather suddenly at the 
residence of his father, in Rush township, January 30, 1866, aged 
thirty-two years.  His remains were interred in the Rush church 
graveyard.  "Mr. Heller," wrote the editor of the Sunbury American, who 
knew him well, "was a young man of exemplary conduct and good 
character, and with industry and good business habits he had a bright 
future before him."