[p. 380] a representative citizen of North Beaver Township, has a fine farm of ninety-one acres, located about, three miles west of Mount Jackson, on the Springfield road. He was born in Pittsburg, Pa., June 25, 1849, and is a son of John and Margaret (Schlemer) Heldman.
John Heldman, the father, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and his wife in Alsace-Lorraine, and both were single at the time of their emigration to America. He located at Pittsburg, Pa., where he conducted a shoe store some years at No. 573 Penn Street. About the year 1868, he moved to Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and purchased a farm of 140 acres, comprising a part of the present farm of Joseph Heldman and a part of the old Unger farm. He and his wife died in North Beaver Township. They were parents of four children, as follows: Margaret, wife of Henry Henk, of Pittsburg; John, deceased; Albertina, wife of Frederick Neubert, both now deceased, and Joseph.
Joseph Heldman was reared in Pittsburg until he was eighteen years of age and received good educational training in the public schools of that city. He also was a student at the Western University of Pittsburg for a year. It was his poor health more than anything else that induced the family to move to the country, and the change proved beneficial. He now owns seventy-six acres of his father's old farm, to which he has added twenty-five acres, making ninety-one in all. He follows general farming and dairying, and usually keeps about fourteen cows in his herd. He has been very successful in a business way, and is rated among the well-to-do and progressive men of the community.
Mr. Heldman was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Best, a daughter of Conrad Best, she being a native of Allegheny County and having been reared in Beaver County. Four children were the issue of this union: Albertina, wife of John M. Knesal by whom she has two children—Raymond and Elizabeth; Laura, who lives at home; John C., of Petersburg, who married Sadie Bishop, and has a son, John, and Otis, who lives at home. Religiously, they are members of the Reformed Church of the United States, and Mr. Heldman for many years served as elder in the church of that denomination in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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