Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839-97) was founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. An interesting biography has been written about her entitled, The Life and Works of Lucinda B. Helm by Arabel Wilbur Alexander (Nashville, 1898). See McClure, 346 (sketch of Lucinda B. Helm Memorial Methodist Church in Elizabethtown).
Her father was Governor John LaRue Helm (1802-67). He studied law with Samuel Haycraft and Benjamin Tobin. He was appointed Meade County attorney in 1823, and was a member of the Kentucky House, 1826-27, 1830, 1833-37, 1839, 1842-43, and Kentucky Senate, 1844-48, 1865-67. He was elected Speaker of the Kentucky House in 1835-36, 1839, and 1842-43, and Senate, 1848-49. He was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1848, and became governor in 1850-51, when Governor John J. Crittenden resigned to become attorney general in President Fillmore's cabinet. He was president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1854-1860. He ensured that the L&N Railroad would go through Elizabethtown by offering to pay the taxes of every resident in the Meeting Creek precinct if they approved the $300,000 bond issue. The bond issue passed, and Governor Helm paid the taxes until his death. He chaired the Louisville meeting on January 8, 1861, which passed a resolution in favor of Kentucky neutrality as the Civil War approached. In 1867, he was elected governor of Kentucky but died soon after taking office. In 1832-40, he built Helm Place, an impressive two-story brick, sixteen-room, white columned home located next to where Helm's Station had stood. It is located at 914 W. Dixie Ave. and Diecks Dr. in Elizabethtown. When the home was restored some years ago, many of the rooms in the rear of the structure were removed. The family cemetery nearby contains a large number of the Helms of several generations. "The public career of Governor Helm was without blemish. He was signally true and faithful to all the duties and obligations that rested upon him, upholding his convictions of right with a fidelity and courage that knew no waivering, and even those who were his political opponents acknowledged his ability and recognized his high motives. He was a man of superior talents, a speaker of power, and as a lawyer and statesman he stood in the front ranks in Kentucky."
Governor Helm married in 1830, Lucinda Barbour Hardin (1809-85), daughter of Congressman Benjamin (1784-1852) and Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour Hardin (1788-1852), of Bardstown, Ky. Their twelve children were Brig. General Benjamin Hardin (1831-63); George H. (1833-59)(Harvard 1858) who was a lawyer in Memphis; Elizabeth Barbour (1836-1913); Rebecca Jane (1838-59); Lucinda Barbour (1839-97); Sarah Hardin (1841/5-68); Emily Palmer (1844-1916); Mary Pope? (1845-1913); John LaRue, Jr. (1847-1917); William (d.inf.); James Pendleton (1850-1910); and Thomas Preston Pope Helm (1851-84). Benjamin Hardin (1784-1852) was attorney general of Kentucky, 1820-21, a member of the Kentucky House, 1810-11, 1824-25, Kentucky Senate, 1827-33, 1851-53, and a Member of Congress, 1815-1817, 1819-1823, 1833-1837. An interesting biography has been written on his life entitled, Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries by Lucius P. Little (Louisville, 1887). Hardin County, Ky. was named in honor of his uncle, Colonel John Hardin (1753-92). Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour was named after an ancestor, Elizabeth Barbour, who was a first cousin of Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, and of Justice Philip Barbour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
See 1850 Census, Hardin County, Ky. (children from Elizabeth to James named); Nelson Osgood Rhoades, Colonial Families of the United States of America (Genealogical Publishing Co.), VII: 278-279; R. Gerald McMurtry, Ben Hardin Helm: Rebel Brother-In-Law of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, 1943), 2-3; Daniel L. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown,Ky. 1979), 156-157, 278-280, 281-282 (description and photo of Helm Place); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Mary V. Brock, The Helms of Hardin County, Kentucky (Louisville, 1981), 59-60; Henry Augustine Sommers, History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (Owensboro, Ky., 1981), 1-3); Samuel A. Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, 1960)(Rprt.), 186-188; Who Was Who in Hardin County (Elizabethtown, Ky.: Hardin County (Ky.) Historical Society, 1946), 75; E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (Chicago & New York, 1912), II: 928-930; J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 544-546; Lewis and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Covington, Ky., 1878, 1882), I: 537 (picture of Governor Helm), II: 312; H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago, 1897), 194-196; Hardin Heritage, The Historic Architecture of Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, Ky., 1985), 161 (picture of house); Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1931), IV: 513; Z.F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville, 1892), 783 (contains a picture of Governor Helm); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky's Governors (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004), 68-70; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 253-254. The Filson Historical Society has a painting of Governor Helm.
Her father was Governor John LaRue Helm (1802-67). He studied law with Samuel Haycraft and Benjamin Tobin. He was appointed Meade County attorney in 1823, and was a member of the Kentucky House, 1826-27, 1830, 1833-37, 1839, 1842-43, and Kentucky Senate, 1844-48, 1865-67. He was elected Speaker of the Kentucky House in 1835-36, 1839, and 1842-43, and Senate, 1848-49. He was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1848, and became governor in 1850-51, when Governor John J. Crittenden resigned to become attorney general in President Fillmore's cabinet. He was president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1854-1860. He ensured that the L&N Railroad would go through Elizabethtown by offering to pay the taxes of every resident in the Meeting Creek precinct if they approved the $300,000 bond issue. The bond issue passed, and Governor Helm paid the taxes until his death. He chaired the Louisville meeting on January 8, 1861, which passed a resolution in favor of Kentucky neutrality as the Civil War approached. In 1867, he was elected governor of Kentucky but died soon after taking office. In 1832-40, he built Helm Place, an impressive two-story brick, sixteen-room, white columned home located next to where Helm's Station had stood. It is located at 914 W. Dixie Ave. and Diecks Dr. in Elizabethtown. When the home was restored some years ago, many of the rooms in the rear of the structure were removed. The family cemetery nearby contains a large number of the Helms of several generations. "The public career of Governor Helm was without blemish. He was signally true and faithful to all the duties and obligations that rested upon him, upholding his convictions of right with a fidelity and courage that knew no waivering, and even those who were his political opponents acknowledged his ability and recognized his high motives. He was a man of superior talents, a speaker of power, and as a lawyer and statesman he stood in the front ranks in Kentucky."
Governor Helm married in 1830, Lucinda Barbour Hardin (1809-85), daughter of Congressman Benjamin (1784-1852) and Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour Hardin (1788-1852), of Bardstown, Ky. Their twelve children were Brig. General Benjamin Hardin (1831-63); George H. (1833-59)(Harvard 1858) who was a lawyer in Memphis; Elizabeth Barbour (1836-1913); Rebecca Jane (1838-59); Lucinda Barbour (1839-97); Sarah Hardin (1841/5-68); Emily Palmer (1844-1916); Mary Pope? (1845-1913); John LaRue, Jr. (1847-1917); William (d.inf.); James Pendleton (1850-1910); and Thomas Preston Pope Helm (1851-84). Benjamin Hardin (1784-1852) was attorney general of Kentucky, 1820-21, a member of the Kentucky House, 1810-11, 1824-25, Kentucky Senate, 1827-33, 1851-53, and a Member of Congress, 1815-1817, 1819-1823, 1833-1837. An interesting biography has been written on his life entitled, Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries by Lucius P. Little (Louisville, 1887). Hardin County, Ky. was named in honor of his uncle, Colonel John Hardin (1753-92). Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour was named after an ancestor, Elizabeth Barbour, who was a first cousin of Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, and of Justice Philip Barbour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
See 1850 Census, Hardin County, Ky. (children from Elizabeth to James named); Nelson Osgood Rhoades, Colonial Families of the United States of America (Genealogical Publishing Co.), VII: 278-279; R. Gerald McMurtry, Ben Hardin Helm: Rebel Brother-In-Law of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, 1943), 2-3; Daniel L. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown,Ky. 1979), 156-157, 278-280, 281-282 (description and photo of Helm Place); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Mary V. Brock, The Helms of Hardin County, Kentucky (Louisville, 1981), 59-60; Henry Augustine Sommers, History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (Owensboro, Ky., 1981), 1-3); Samuel A. Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, 1960)(Rprt.), 186-188; Who Was Who in Hardin County (Elizabethtown, Ky.: Hardin County (Ky.) Historical Society, 1946), 75; E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (Chicago & New York, 1912), II: 928-930; J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 544-546; Lewis and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Covington, Ky., 1878, 1882), I: 537 (picture of Governor Helm), II: 312; H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago, 1897), 194-196; Hardin Heritage, The Historic Architecture of Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, Ky., 1985), 161 (picture of house); Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1931), IV: 513; Z.F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville, 1892), 783 (contains a picture of Governor Helm); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky's Governors (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004), 68-70; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 253-254. The Filson Historical Society has a painting of Governor Helm.
Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839-97) was founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. An interesting biography has been written about her entitled, The Life and Works of Lucinda B. Helm by Arabel Wilbur Alexander (Nashville, 1898). See McClure, 346 (sketch of Lucinda B. Helm Memorial Methodist Church in Elizabethtown).
Her father was Governor John LaRue Helm (1802-67). He studied law with Samuel Haycraft and Benjamin Tobin. He was appointed Meade County attorney in 1823, and was a member of the Kentucky House, 1826-27, 1830, 1833-37, 1839, 1842-43, and Kentucky Senate, 1844-48, 1865-67. He was elected Speaker of the Kentucky House in 1835-36, 1839, and 1842-43, and Senate, 1848-49. He was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1848, and became governor in 1850-51, when Governor John J. Crittenden resigned to become attorney general in President Fillmore's cabinet. He was president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1854-1860. He ensured that the L&N Railroad would go through Elizabethtown by offering to pay the taxes of every resident in the Meeting Creek precinct if they approved the $300,000 bond issue. The bond issue passed, and Governor Helm paid the taxes until his death. He chaired the Louisville meeting on January 8, 1861, which passed a resolution in favor of Kentucky neutrality as the Civil War approached. In 1867, he was elected governor of Kentucky but died soon after taking office. In 1832-40, he built Helm Place, an impressive two-story brick, sixteen-room, white columned home located next to where Helm's Station had stood. It is located at 914 W. Dixie Ave. and Diecks Dr. in Elizabethtown. When the home was restored some years ago, many of the rooms in the rear of the structure were removed. The family cemetery nearby contains a large number of the Helms of several generations. "The public career of Governor Helm was without blemish. He was signally true and faithful to all the duties and obligations that rested upon him, upholding his convictions of right with a fidelity and courage that knew no waivering, and even those who were his political opponents acknowledged his ability and recognized his high motives. He was a man of superior talents, a speaker of power, and as a lawyer and statesman he stood in the front ranks in Kentucky."
Governor Helm married in 1830, Lucinda Barbour Hardin (1809-85), daughter of Congressman Benjamin (1784-1852) and Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour Hardin (1788-1852), of Bardstown, Ky. Their twelve children were Brig. General Benjamin Hardin (1831-63); George H. (1833-59)(Harvard 1858) who was a lawyer in Memphis; Elizabeth Barbour (1836-1913); Rebecca Jane (1838-59); Lucinda Barbour (1839-97); Sarah Hardin (1841/5-68); Emily Palmer (1844-1916); Mary Pope? (1845-1913); John LaRue, Jr. (1847-1917); William (d.inf.); James Pendleton (1850-1910); and Thomas Preston Pope Helm (1851-84). Benjamin Hardin (1784-1852) was attorney general of Kentucky, 1820-21, a member of the Kentucky House, 1810-11, 1824-25, Kentucky Senate, 1827-33, 1851-53, and a Member of Congress, 1815-1817, 1819-1823, 1833-1837. An interesting biography has been written on his life entitled, Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries by Lucius P. Little (Louisville, 1887). Hardin County, Ky. was named in honor of his uncle, Colonel John Hardin (1753-92). Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour was named after an ancestor, Elizabeth Barbour, who was a first cousin of Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, and of Justice Philip Barbour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
See 1850 Census, Hardin County, Ky. (children from Elizabeth to James named); Nelson Osgood Rhoades, Colonial Families of the United States of America (Genealogical Publishing Co.), VII: 278-279; R. Gerald McMurtry, Ben Hardin Helm: Rebel Brother-In-Law of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, 1943), 2-3; Daniel L. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown,Ky. 1979), 156-157, 278-280, 281-282 (description and photo of Helm Place); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Mary V. Brock, The Helms of Hardin County, Kentucky (Louisville, 1981), 59-60; Henry Augustine Sommers, History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (Owensboro, Ky., 1981), 1-3); Samuel A. Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, 1960)(Rprt.), 186-188; Who Was Who in Hardin County (Elizabethtown, Ky.: Hardin County (Ky.) Historical Society, 1946), 75; E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (Chicago & New York, 1912), II: 928-930; J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 544-546; Lewis and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Covington, Ky., 1878, 1882), I: 537 (picture of Governor Helm), II: 312; H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago, 1897), 194-196; Hardin Heritage, The Historic Architecture of Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, Ky., 1985), 161 (picture of house); Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1931), IV: 513; Z.F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville, 1892), 783 (contains a picture of Governor Helm); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky's Governors (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004), 68-70; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 253-254. The Filson Historical Society has a painting of Governor Helm.
Her father was Governor John LaRue Helm (1802-67). He studied law with Samuel Haycraft and Benjamin Tobin. He was appointed Meade County attorney in 1823, and was a member of the Kentucky House, 1826-27, 1830, 1833-37, 1839, 1842-43, and Kentucky Senate, 1844-48, 1865-67. He was elected Speaker of the Kentucky House in 1835-36, 1839, and 1842-43, and Senate, 1848-49. He was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1848, and became governor in 1850-51, when Governor John J. Crittenden resigned to become attorney general in President Fillmore's cabinet. He was president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1854-1860. He ensured that the L&N Railroad would go through Elizabethtown by offering to pay the taxes of every resident in the Meeting Creek precinct if they approved the $300,000 bond issue. The bond issue passed, and Governor Helm paid the taxes until his death. He chaired the Louisville meeting on January 8, 1861, which passed a resolution in favor of Kentucky neutrality as the Civil War approached. In 1867, he was elected governor of Kentucky but died soon after taking office. In 1832-40, he built Helm Place, an impressive two-story brick, sixteen-room, white columned home located next to where Helm's Station had stood. It is located at 914 W. Dixie Ave. and Diecks Dr. in Elizabethtown. When the home was restored some years ago, many of the rooms in the rear of the structure were removed. The family cemetery nearby contains a large number of the Helms of several generations. "The public career of Governor Helm was without blemish. He was signally true and faithful to all the duties and obligations that rested upon him, upholding his convictions of right with a fidelity and courage that knew no waivering, and even those who were his political opponents acknowledged his ability and recognized his high motives. He was a man of superior talents, a speaker of power, and as a lawyer and statesman he stood in the front ranks in Kentucky."
Governor Helm married in 1830, Lucinda Barbour Hardin (1809-85), daughter of Congressman Benjamin (1784-1852) and Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour Hardin (1788-1852), of Bardstown, Ky. Their twelve children were Brig. General Benjamin Hardin (1831-63); George H. (1833-59)(Harvard 1858) who was a lawyer in Memphis; Elizabeth Barbour (1836-1913); Rebecca Jane (1838-59); Lucinda Barbour (1839-97); Sarah Hardin (1841/5-68); Emily Palmer (1844-1916); Mary Pope? (1845-1913); John LaRue, Jr. (1847-1917); William (d.inf.); James Pendleton (1850-1910); and Thomas Preston Pope Helm (1851-84). Benjamin Hardin (1784-1852) was attorney general of Kentucky, 1820-21, a member of the Kentucky House, 1810-11, 1824-25, Kentucky Senate, 1827-33, 1851-53, and a Member of Congress, 1815-1817, 1819-1823, 1833-1837. An interesting biography has been written on his life entitled, Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries by Lucius P. Little (Louisville, 1887). Hardin County, Ky. was named in honor of his uncle, Colonel John Hardin (1753-92). Elizabeth Pendleton Barbour was named after an ancestor, Elizabeth Barbour, who was a first cousin of Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, and of Justice Philip Barbour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
See 1850 Census, Hardin County, Ky. (children from Elizabeth to James named); Nelson Osgood Rhoades, Colonial Families of the United States of America (Genealogical Publishing Co.), VII: 278-279; R. Gerald McMurtry, Ben Hardin Helm: Rebel Brother-In-Law of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, 1943), 2-3; Daniel L. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown,Ky. 1979), 156-157, 278-280, 281-282 (description and photo of Helm Place); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Mary V. Brock, The Helms of Hardin County, Kentucky (Louisville, 1981), 59-60; Henry Augustine Sommers, History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (Owensboro, Ky., 1981), 1-3); Samuel A. Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, 1960)(Rprt.), 186-188; Who Was Who in Hardin County (Elizabethtown, Ky.: Hardin County (Ky.) Historical Society, 1946), 75; E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (Chicago & New York, 1912), II: 928-930; J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 544-546; Lewis and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Covington, Ky., 1878, 1882), I: 537 (picture of Governor Helm), II: 312; H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago, 1897), 194-196; Hardin Heritage, The Historic Architecture of Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, Ky., 1985), 161 (picture of house); Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1931), IV: 513; Z.F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville, 1892), 783 (contains a picture of Governor Helm); Robert Sobel, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, Conn., 1978), II: 520; Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky's Governors (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004), 68-70; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 253-254. The Filson Historical Society has a painting of Governor Helm.
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