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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 172]
         
         GEORGE H. HELWIG, proprietor of the old HELWIG pioneer home-
       stead in sections 25 and 26, Montana township, Buffalo county,
       was born in a log house on this farm, March 15, 1860, son of
       AUGUST, SR., and EVA (BITTNER) HELWIG. At the time of his birth
       his parents had been settled here for about four years, but as
       pioneer progress was slow, the country being then practically
       a wilderness, young GEORGE found plenty of work to do as soon
       as he was old enough to be of use to his father. The industrial
       training he then received proved useful to him in later years,
       and was the foundation of his present prosperity. With the ex-
       ception of a short period of four years, when he was engaged in
       farming in Eau Claire county, he has spent his life up to the
       present time on the old homestead, which he took over in 1895.
       His father had erected some good buildings, but he has since
       made further improvements, including installation of an elec-
       tric plant. He has a good herd of Shorthorn cattle, and also
       raised thoroughbred Percheron horses and Duroc-Jersey hogs,
       while the usual farm crops receive a part of his attention.
       All these industries are conducted on a profitable bases, and
       MR. HELWIG is numbered among the prosperous citizens of his
       township. He is a shareholder in the Montana creamery, which
       he helped to organize, and of which he was a director during
       the first year of its existence, and he also holds stock in
       the Waumandee State Bank. For a number of years he served as
       clerk of the school district. Fraternally he is a member of
       the Catholic Order of Foresters in Waumandee. MR. HELWIG was
       married, Jan. 12, 1898, to MARY E. STARK, who was born in
       La Crosse county, Wisconsin, July 22, 1870, daughter of
       FREDERICK and MARY (SHELL) STARK. He and his wife had ten
       children: FLORENCE, who died at the age of 17 years; ERVIN,
       CHARLES, ELSIE, FLOYD, ROMA, HAZEL, FRANCES, VELMA, and
       WILLIAM J. B.
       
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