Left: Walter Helft, year unknown
Right: Julius Helft, age approx 75 (Walter's son)
Left: Julius Helft as a young man, 1918, Indianapolis
Right: Julius Helft with son David, about 1920
Left: Julius Helft WW1 draft application, 1918, Indianapolis
Right: Julius Helft WW1 draft application, pg. 2
Left: Walter Helft WW1 draft application, 1918, Columbus.
Age 42, born 26 July 1876.
Salesman, Lindenberg Piano co., Columbus.
Nearest relative: Gertrude Helft, Indianapolis
Listed as native born (untrue)
Left: Benjamin Schwartz, about 1906
Right: Gertrude Schwartz Helft- Benjamin's daughter,
wife of Walter Helft, mother of Julius Helft
Dora Schaub Delbrugge as a young woman.
Left: Dorothy Delbrugge, wife of Julius Helft;
son David, and Dorothy's mother Dora Schaub.
The Delbrugge name became Delbrook.
Right: Kate Delbrugge, Dorothy's sister with her nephew David, 1921
Left: Dorothy Delbrugge Rector & g'daughter Becky (me!), 1949
Dorothy remarried to John Rector, 1929 after divorce from Julius Helft
Right: Dorothy Delbrugge, left and sister Bessie (wheelchair),
probably around 1910? Bessie died in 1915
Left: Emma Delbrugge Lichtenberg & sister Dorothy Delbrugge Rector, about 1960
Right: House in Wheeling, WV built by William Delbrugge, 1800's. Photo taken May, 1997
Left: Betty Lichtenberg (Kingdon),
Frank Lichtenberg, Emma Delbrugge Lichtenberg,
and Delbrook Lichtenberg; Indianapolis
Left: Bernhard Delbrugge (born 1836, Osnabrueck, Ger.), son Albert (born 1867, Wheeling, WV), & Edna Delbrugge Steinmetz (Albert's daughter, born 1903); Wheeling
Right: Albert Delbrugge
Left:Melvin Delbrugge, during WWI (contributed by William Delbrugge of
Ohio, formerly of Wheeling, WV)
Right: Bernard Wm. Delbrugge, son of Melvin, and father of William Delbrugge (who contributed photo)
Left: Richard Delbrook of MD, 1998.
His great grandfather, Rudolph emigrated in 1840 from Horne, Germany near Lienen,
and settled in Allegany Co., Maryland and Somerset Co.,PA.
Right: Photo from the PA branch. I think this is George Delbrook, (Sr. or Jr.?) (Thanks to Kristin Delbrook for the photo)
Left: Who is this? (Part of PA group)