THADDEUS W. HELM, M.D.— Dr. Helm was born
at Elkrun, Fauquier
county. Va., October 14. 1850, a S( n of John G. and Pauline
(Jones) Helm.
In both lines of descent he came of old and honored
Virginian families
and in the paternal line he traced his ancestry to Wales.
When he was
yet but a boy he was taken by his parents to Blackwater.
Cooper county,
Mo. He was reared on a farm and when he was eighteen became
a traveling
salesman. Four years later he went to Texas and there became
a school
teacher and a medical student. Eventually he entered the
medical department
of the Universitv of Missouri at Columbia, from which he was
graduated
with the degree of M. D. in 1877.
It was at Brookston, Tex., that Dr. Helm began his medical
practice.
After a brief experience there he removed to Ballinger, in
the same state,
where he practiced with much success for about ten years.
Sometimes he
traveled sixty or seventy miles on horseback to see
patients, carrying his
medicine and a few surgical appliances in his saddle-bags.
As he attained
prominence as a physician he won admiration as a man and
popularity as a
citizen and the office of coroner of his county was
conferred upon him. In
1888 he came to Lemoore, Kings county, Cal.. where he
labored professionally
until in 1891, when he settled in Bakersfield. His office
was long located
on Nineteenth street, but eventually he removed it to the
Producers Bank
Building. In California, as he had been in Texas, he was
called by his admiring
fellow-citizens to places of trust and honor and he filled
the offices
of coroner and public administrator of Kern county. In his
political afifiliations
he was a Democrat, and was active as a member of the
Fraternal
Brotherhood, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Encampment and
Canton, being captain of the last mentioned. He was an
active member of
the Kern County Medical Society, of which he was twice
elected president
and of which he was vice-president at the time of his death,
which occurred
November 1, 1910. He was long identified also with the
California State
Medical Association and with the American Medical
Association. A believer
in the evangelical religion and in the ministry of the
church for the physical
benefit of men, he was an admirer of General Booth, and his
method of work
for humanity.
In Paris, Texas, November 27, 1879, Dr. Helm married Miss
Mollie
Hathaway, a native of that town. She was a daughter of T-
^^^ Hathaway
and a granddaughter of William M. Hathaway, natives of
Virginia and members
of an old Southern family which traced its descent from
English ancestry.
Her father, who removed to Missouri. and thence to Paris.
Tex.,
was a farmer and a well-known and popular merchant near
Paris. In the
course of events he removed to Ballinger. Tex., where he
died. During the
Civil war he was a gallant officer in the Confederate army.
His wife, who
before her marriage was Miss Naomi Yarnell, was born at
Nashville, Tenn.,
and died in Texas. Her father. William Yarnell, a native of
England, was
a planter in Tennessee, and later in Moniteau county, Mo.,
where he passed
away. Mrs. Helm grew to womanhood in Paris, Tex., and was
duly graduated
from Shiloh Academy. The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Helm
are
Lena, Thaddeus W., Jr., De Witt T., Homer H. and Francis.
Thaddeus W.,
Jr., was educated as a mining engineer at San Francisco.
Mrs. Helm is a
member of the Rebekahs, of which she is past officer, is
president of the Fraternal
Brotherhood, and is an active member of the Salvation Army.
Pages 733 – 734
LESREY G. HELM.— One of the leading
business men of Wasco, Kern
county, L. G. Helm is the junior member of the firm of L. G.
Helm & Son,
general merchants, whose establishment is one of the finest
of its kind in the
vicinity. L. G. Helm, Sr., was born in Saline county. Mo.,
January 30, 1834,
and for many years carried on merchandising in the east. In
1882 he moved
to Texas, disposing of his property in Missouri, but finally
returned east
and engaged in business. In 1892 he came to California,
locating at Rosedale,
Kern county, where he lived until he settled in Wasco. While
he retains
his interest in the store with his son and is interested in
the McKittrick and
Lost Hills oil fields, he is practically retired from active
business.
It was on the 25th of April, 1886, that the younger Helm was
born. He
came to Kern county with his parents when he was about six
years old, and
until he was fourteen attended the public schools at
Rosedale and Bakersfield.
Then for eight years he was a salesman in Redlick's
department store at
Bakersfield. Late in 1908 he moved to McKittrick, where he
opened a general
merchandise store which he conducted with success about six
months. In 1909
he took up his residence at \Wasco, where in partnership
with his father he
established the mercantile establishment of L. G. Helm &
Son, a concern
which supplies Wasco, Lost Hills and vicinity with
merchandise of all kinds.
They are local agents for the Moline Plow Company's
implements and the
Fish and Studebaker wagons and their trade extends widely
throughout the
country surrounding Wasco. The firm erected a large brick
building 50x60
feet, in which their business is conducted. The son owns
property in the
Lost Hills oil district and in the McKittrick field. In 1910
he organized the
Louise Oil Company, which is operating in the Lost Hills
district. He is
now a director in the Wasco Hall Association and he
affiliates socially with
the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America.
He
married, November 14, 1906, Miss Etta A. Martin, who was
born in Arizona,
and they have one child. Fay H. Mr. Helm was one of the
organizers and a
director of the Bank of Wasco. – Pages 1440 - 1441 submitted
by Linda Craig
Kern County History of 1914 of pioneer families
HOAGLAND FAMILY
ARTHUR EUGENE HOAGLAND
History of Kern County – 1914, pg. 1427 - Submitted by Marji Turner
The excitement caused by the discovery of gold in California imbued William Hoagland with a desire to visit the
vast unknown west. At the time of joining a part of Argonauts he was still a mere lad, yet he was able to do a
man’s work and assumed responsibilities equal to those thrust upon men many years his senior. As a boy he had attended
the schools of Springfield, Ill., where his birth ad occurred about 1835 and where his parents had made their home
for years. The trip across the plains during the summer of 1849 he still recalls as one of the most interesting
experiences of his eventful life and scarcely less interesting was the return voyage by water. Settling upon a
farm in Missouri, he gave himself industriously to agricultural pursuits and for some time continued to live and
labor in that state. Meantime he served in the Union army during the Civil war and remained at the front until
the expiration of his period of service. About 1884 he became a pioneer of Kansas and took up a claim in Barber
county, where he engaged in farming for some years. When he made his second trip to the Pacific coast in 1891 he
found conditions in the west far different from those of the earlier period. Oregon, to which state he removed
from Kansas, was becoming known for riches of soil and growth of commerce. For a number of years he served as assessor
of Klamath county and made his home in Klamath Falls, but more recently he has removed to California, where he
and his wife, Cassie [Fulton], now are living in Butte county.
The family of William Hoagland comprised eleven children and eight of these are still living. One of the younger
members of the family, Arthur Eugene, was born July 7, 1876, during the residence of the parents near Rolla, Phelps
county, MO., were he remained until eight years of age and then accompanied the other members of the family to
Kansas. Later he attended the public schools of Medicine Lodge, Barber county. At the age of fourteen he began
to be self-supporting and from that time he has made his way unaided in the world. The Santa Fe Railroad had a
line through his home town and offered an opportunity for an honest livelihood through day labor. At first his
wages were very small, but his worth found appreciative recognition and at seventeen he was promoted to be a foreman.
Later he was transferred from Kansas to Illinois as a construction foreman, after which he was similarly employed
in Arizona. During 1899 he was transferred to Bakersfield and from this city was sent north on construction work.
The year 1900 was spent mainly in Hanford. During 1901 he returned to Bakersfield and this city has been his home
since. For three years he continued in the railroad business. As general foreman of construction he had charge
of construction work between Bakersfield and Fresno.
Resigning in 1904 after a long and honorable identification with railroad interests, Mr. Hoagland turned his attention
to other lines of business. For a time he owned a cigar store and for two and one-half years he acted as local
manager for the Wieland brewery, since which time he has been a member of the firm of Hoagland & Ross, wholesale
distributors of Rainier beer, manufactured by the Seatlle Brewing and Malting Company. The firm has an agency at
Mojave and a cold storage plant at Bakersfield and ships the bottled beer throughout all of Kern county. In politics
he is a Democrat and fraternally he is identified with the Royal Arch Lodge and also has served as president of
the Eagles. By his marriage to Miss Maude Rainer, a resident of Bakersfield, but a native of Kansas, he has two
children, Bruce and Helen.
