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Helm (surname)
Helm is a British or German origin surname. Notable people with this name include A *Amy Helm (born 1970), American singer-songwriter *Anne Helm (born 1938), Canadian actress *Anne Helm (voice actress) (born 1986), German voice actress *Anny Helm (1903–1993), Austrian soprano B *Benjamin Helm (rower) (born 1964), British rower *Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831–1863), American politician *Bob Helm (1914–2003), American jazz clarinetist *Boone Helm (1828–1864), American traveler and cannibal *Brett Helm (born 1962), American entrepreneur *Brigitte Helm (1908–1996), German actress C *Charles Helm (1844–1915), South African missionary *Christopher Helm (1937–2007), Scottish publisher *Clementine Helm (1825–1896), German author D *Damariscotta Helm, American whistler *Daniel Helm (born 1995), American football player *Darren Helm (born 1987), Canadian ice hockey player *Dieter Helm (born 1956), British economist *Dieter Helm (politician) (1941–2022), German farmer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Helm
Amy Helm (born December 3, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the daughter of drummer Levon Helm and singer Libby Titus. She is a past member of the Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble Band and Ollabelle, as well as her own touring band. Her debut solo album, ''Didn’t It Rain'', was released in July 2015, and her second release ''This Too Shall Light'' was released September 2018 on Yep Roc Records. Helm conducted an in-depth interview about her life and career with The Pods & Sods Network in 2016. That year she and her band performed at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Early life Helm was born in Woodstock, New York, United States, and spent her childhood between Woodstock, Los Angeles, and New York City. She attended Trinity High School where she studied jazz with Dr. Aaron Bell, while singing in bands, playing in New York City clubs and bars. Music career In 1999, Helm joined her father in his blues band The Barn Burners. They toured the country play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Helm (politician)
Dieter Helm (13 July 1941 – 19 July 2022) was a German farmer and politician who served in the Landtag of Brandenburg from 1990 to 2009 and in the parliament of East Germany, the Volkskammer, in 1990. Helm represented the area around Potsdam first as a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party and later the Christian Democratic Union. Early life and career Helm was born on 13 July 1941 in , Saxony. From 1955 to 1957, he received vocational training in agriculture, working as a farmer from 1957 until 1959. Between 1959 and 1962, Helm studied agriculture and horticulture at a technical school in Dresden, and he became a state-certified farmer. In 1963, Helm began attending the Humboldt University of Berlin, graduating in 1968 with a diploma in agriculture. From 1962 until 1990, Helm worked as the manager of a ''Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft'', a type of collective farm in East Germany, also serving as the farm's deputy chairman and economist beginning in 1972. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Meredith Helm
Rear Admiral James Meredith Helm (December 16, 1855 – October 28, 1927) was an American military officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War. Early life and education Born at Grayville, Illinois, Helm graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1875. Career He served in various ships and abroad until the Spanish–American War, when he commanded the gunboat . In the blockade of Cuba, he captured a Spanish steamer and three contraband schooners, and was advanced five numbers in grade for outstanding performance at the Battle of Manzanillo on 30 June 1898. Helm subsequently commanded the and . During World War I, Helm was Commandant of the 4th Naval District and received the Navy Cross The Navy Cross is the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration awarded for sailors and marines who distinguish themselves for extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force. The medal is eq ... for his achi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Helm
John Jackson "Jack" Helm (sometimes Helms) (c.1839–May 17, 1873), was a lawman, cowboy, gunfighter, and inventor in the American Old West. He fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, but worked as a lawman for the Union during Reconstruction. He was an active participant in the Sutton–Taylor feud in and about Dewitt County, Texas; and was killed in an ambush related to the feud and perpetrated by Jim Taylor and John Wesley Hardin. Early life and family John Jackson Helm was born in Missouri in 1837, the son of George Washington Helm and Ruth Mayo [] Helm. Jack married his first wife, Manerva McCown, about 1857. The couple had two children, George and Mattie. Helm married his second wife, Margaret Crawford, sometime before 1870. War and Reconstruction years Helm fought briefly for the Confederacy during the Civil War, enlisting in 1861 as a private with Company G, Texas Cavalry, CSA. In the next year, it is reported that he joined a vigilante group that killed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Helm
Israel Helm (c. 1630- c. 1701) was a colonist and soldier in New Sweden who became one of the first settlers in the area of Philadelphia, PA. Biography Israel Åkesson was born around 1630 and would later adopt the surname Helm. He came to New Sweden with his father, Åke Vilhelm Karl Israelson, in 1641. His father died during the trip and he probably became a ward of Governor Printz when he arrived at New Sweden in 1643. He became a soldier in 1648, and accompanied Printz back to Sweden in this capacity in 1653. The Swedish settlement was incorporated into New Netherland in 1655. Åkesson subsequently returned and probably settled on Tinicum Island in Pennsylvania. The island was sold to Dutch merchant Joost de la Grange (1623-1664) in 1662. Åkesson later traveled back to Sweden where he recruited settlers and returned with them in 1663. Thirty-two Finns arrived on board the "Purmerlander Kerck " and were settled at Feren Hook on south side of Christina River. As a rew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Helm
Harvey Helm (December 2, 1865 – March 3, 1919) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Stanford Male Academy and was graduated from the Central University of Kentucky in 1887. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1890 and began practice in Stanford, Kentucky. Helm was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1894 and the county attorney of Lincoln County, Kentucky 1897-1905. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900. Helm was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death before the commencement of the Sixty-sixth Congress. While in Congress, he was chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War ( Sixty-second Congress) and the Committee on the Census (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses). He died in Columbus, Mississippi in 1919 and was buried in Buffalo Spring Cemetery, Stanford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Helm (cricketer)
George Frederick Helm (11 January 1838 – 31 March 1898) was an English cricketer active from 1860 to 1863 who played for Sussex and Cambridge University. He was born in Worthing and died in Cornwall. He appeared in five first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled left arm medium pace with a roundarm action. He scored 21 runs with a highest score of 11 and took 13 wickets with a best performance of six in one innings. Helm died in his carriage when travelling between Penzance and Marazion. Helm was educated at Marlborough College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb .... Notes 1838 births 1898 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge English cricketers Susse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Helm
George Jarrett Helm Jr. (March 23, 1950 – disappeared March 7, 1977) was a Native Hawaiian activist and musician from Kalamaula, Molokai, Hawaii. He graduated from St. Louis High School on Oahu, about which he said, "I came to Honolulu to get educated. Instead I lost my innocence." While at St. Louis, he studied under Hawaiian cultural expert John Keola Lake, and Kahauanu Lake. George achieved mastery in vocal performance and guitar. Overview Helm was one of the greatest Hawaiian falsetto vocalists, and played fast, complex guitar parts while singing in an "almost inhuman" vocal range. He was a powerful speaker, writer, and "revolutionary" philosopher who pioneered many Hawaiian sovereignty concepts. He was considered, as his posthumous album title suggests, a "True Hawaiian" who surfed, fished, farmed, loved, sang, worshipped, and thought in the ways of old. Activism Helm began his front-line activism in the Molokai-based group Hui Alaloa around 1975, and became deeply ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Helm
Georg Ferdinand Helm (; 15 March 1851 in Dresden, Saxony – 13 September 1923 in Dresden) was a German mathematician. Helm graduated from high school from the Annenschule in Dresden in 1867. Thereafter he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Dresden Polytechnical School, and then at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin from 1871 to 1873. Helm first taught at the Annenschule, his high school alma mater. Then he taught mathematics and physics at the Dresden University of Technology and at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic from 1888 until 1922. He was an interdisciplinarian, whose teaching responsibilities included a seminar on insurance statistics. Helm coined the term “mathematical chemistry”. His work in the area of economics postulated that money was the economic equivalent of the lowest form of social entropy Social entropy is a sociological theory that evaluates social behaviours using a method based on the second law of thermodynamics. The equivalent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Helm
Franz Helm (ca. 1500–1567) was an artillery master who lived and worked in what is now Germany in the first half of the 16th century. By his own account, he was born in Cologne, perhaps around 1500. Described as a "shooter, cannonier and fireworker," Helm fought with the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V against the Ottoman Empire. He subsequently moved to Landshut in the then Duchy of Bavaria, where he served the dukes William IV, Louis X and Albert V. He later served John II, Count Palatine of Simmern. Works Two of Helm's works have survived to the present day. In the 1520s he wrote a comprehensive description of an 'ideal' armoury which, though it has not survived as a stand-alone work, is found incorporated into some texts of his later surviving work, the ''Buch von den probierten Künsten'' ("Book of the practical arts"). This was given in manuscript form to his patron, Duke Albert V, some years before the end of Helm's career. Whether it had any practical influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Helm
Frances Helm (October 14, 1923 - December 30, 2006)Frances Helm Wallace in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claim Index, 1936-2007, retrieved froAncestry.com/ref> was an American stage, film, and television actress whose performing career spanned nearly fifty years. Early life She was born Mary Frances Helm in Panama City, Florida. Her parents were Thomas William Helm II and Grace Spencer. Her father started as a bookkeeper for the railroad industry then became an accountant for the state of Virginia, moving the family to Richmond when Helm was very young. She had one older brother. Helm graduated from J. A. C. Chandler Junior High School in June 1937. She graduated from John Marshall High School in June 1940. From the age of ten Helm took piano and voice lessons. Later she studied with Mary Barbour Dixon, who would remain her drama teacher and coach all through secondary school and college. Helm attended the Richmond Professional Institute (RPI) from Fall 1940 throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Helm
Fay Helm (April 9, 1909 – September 27, 2003) was an American film actress. Born in Bakersfield, California, she appeared in about 65 films between 1936 and 1946. She is perhaps better known for films like A Child is Born (1939), Phantom Lady (1944), Lady in the Dark (1944) and Sister Kenny (1946). Early years Helm was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Helm of Bakersfield, California. Her father was "a widely known oil operator" in Bakersfield. She participated in drama as a student at the University of Oregon and acted in productions at the Portland Civic Theater. She also acted in the Bakersfield Community Theatre. Helm came to Hollywood in 1936 at the age of 22. Personal life Helm married attorney Jack Hardy February 15, 1941. Before that, she was married to assistant district attorney Norman Main. She and Main divorced in 1940. She died on September 27, 2003, and was buried October 15, 2003 in the Holy Cross Cemetery Culver City Los Angeles County, California, Sect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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