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George Helm October 31 1833 - January 27 1858 Nelson-Boyle County KyArchives Biography

Author: Centre College Alumni
George Helm. Son of Hon. John L. and Lucinda B. (Hardin) Helm. Born October 31, 1833, at Bardstown, KY. Was prepared for college by Robert Hewitt in Elizabethtown--his legal residence while a student. In 1847 he entered Centre College. On leaving he chose the law as a profession, and pursued it at Louisville and at the Law School in Cambridge, MA. He practiced for a time in Elizabethtown, and then moved to Memphis, TN. Died January 27, 1858, at Memphis, of typhoid fever. He never married. "He was a constant and deep student, both of books and human nature, and had acquired a vast fund of information, historical, scientific and political. As a speaker he was easy and attractive, close and logical in argument, happy in his illustrations and forcible in his conclusions."


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