S. C. Helmick, M.D.
Among the prominent citizens of Commercial Point, Pickaway County, we find the name which appears at the head of this paragraph. He is well known throughout all this community, as, besides his professional labors, he carries on a drug store and is the Postmaster of the village. He acquired a more than local fame in the latter capacity last year, through the fact that he was presented with a gold watch by the management of the Ohio State Journal, of Columbus, on account of having secured for their weekly issue over one hundred subscribers at his post-otfice. He is a most zealous and enthusiastic Republican and a stanch adherent of his party.
Dr. Helmick was born m Zanesville, Ohio, June 1, 1848, and his father, William Helmick, was also a native of Ohio, while his grandfather, Isaac, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to this State at a very early date, locating in Franklin County. There he practiced his profession as a physician, and lived to a very advanced age. His son William was a keel-boat captain in early life, and took boats frtmi Zanesville, Ohio, to New Orleans. He also served as Deputy Sheriff for a number of years, and lived to reach the age of seventy. He was an earnest Republican in his political views. Rosanna Corbus was the maiden name of her who became the mother of our subject; she was a native of Maryland, who came with her parents, when only eigiiteen montlis old, to Zanesville when it consisted of only a few log caljins. Her eight children were Isaac, Elizabeth, James, Augusta, Rose A., Anna, Jane, and our subject. She lived to reach the age of eighty-one years, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church most of her life. Her father, W. Corbus, was a native of Maryland, and became a pioneer of Muskingum County, Ohio.
The village schools and Small's Commercial College, of Zanesville, supplied the educational advantages of our subject up to his nineteenth year. After graduating from the last-named institution, in February, 1869, he began to read medicine at Harrisburgh, Franklin County, under his uncle. Dr. Joseph Helmick, who gave his young relative the full benefit of his knowledge and experience. During the three years which he spent with his uncle, the young man also attended one course of lectures at the Starling Medical College of Columbus, and completed his course in the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati the winter following, 1872. He located at Baltimore, Fairfield County, this State, where his uncle. Dr. Luke Helmick, had just died after a successful practice of forty years, and here the young man continued for three years. Upon the 10th of November, 1875, Dr. S. C. Helmick located in Commercial Point and has here carried on a general practice since that time. His drug store was opened in 1881, and during the same year he received the appointment of Postmaster from President Garfheld continuously since, with the exception of four years of Cleveland's administration. Thedrug-store building was put up by him in 1881.
The Doctor was married June 4, 1873, to Margaret C. Chenoweth, who was born in Harrisburgh, Franklin County, Ohio, September 15, 1845, where her father, Elijah Chenoweth, Jr., was a farmer, and where he owned some twelve hundred acres of land. He died in Franklin County when about sixty-eight years of age. His father, Joseph H. Chenoweth, was the first white child born in the Scioto Valley, and the family has been prominent in that region for many years. At one time they owned more than six thousand acres of rich land along Darby Creek.
Dr. and Mrs. Helmick have three children, Maynard, Arthur, and Sumner, all of whom are at home. The Doctor's extensive practice reaches over a large tract of country and his reputation is most excellent in the profession. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church, in which they are very active, and he is a live member of the Odd Fellows' lodge. He has been a Councilman and a member of the Board of Education for a number of years, and has held the offices of School Treasurer, and Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As Vice-president of the Central Ohio Medical Association, and as delegate to both State and National Medical Associations, he has been prominent. He has contributed papers before these associations upon the Clinical Thermometer, and upon various other topics of professional interest.
From PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF FAYETTE, PICKAWAY AND MADISON COUNTIES, OHIO - Chapman Bros. [Chicago, 1892]