From "Standard History of Adams & Wells Counties, Indiana,"
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918, pp. 908, 909.

FRANK HELLER

Success has amply attended the efforts of Frank HELLER, who has devoted himself with diligence and energy to the farming business nearly all his life. He is a representative of the progressive type of farming, and today is cultivating and handling the resources of the soil of a farm on which he was born. The farm is in Hartford Township, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Berne.

Mr. Heller was born there April 6, 1873, a son of George and Eliza (Gentis) HELLER and a grandson of Levi and Catherine (Krebs) HELLER. This is one of the oldest names in Adams County. His grandparents came here in 1839, locating in Nottingham Township, where for years they had the environment and the experiences of pioneers. George HELLER was born in Clarke County, Ohio, on august 28, 1835, and was a small child when bought to Indiana. After reaching maturity he moved to Linn Grove. George and Eliza HELLER had a family of eight children, four of whom are still living. Jane is the widow of David Moeschberger; Mary is the wife of Benjamin Moeschberger of Hartford Township; and Emma is the wife of Harry Graham of Huntington County, Indiana

Mr. Frank Heller’s earlier and later associations have all been centered around the farm of eighty acres on which he was born and which he now owns. As a boy he attended the Linn Grove public schools and also had one term in a commercial course at Valparaiso College. He was one of the early stockholders of the Bank of Linn Grove, and for one year was cashier of that institution. Mr. Heller is doing well as a farmer and has reason to be well satisfied with his crops and with his equipment of livestock and other facilities with which he has surrounded himself.

In 1892 he married Miss Polina Gilgen, a native of Wells County, where in Harrison Township she grew up and attended the local schools. They have four children: Walter, who is now superintendent of the France Stone Company at Middle Point, Ohio, one of the largest plants of its kind in the United States; Reuben, unmarried and still at home; Volney and Olga, both school children. The family are members of the Evangelical Association at Linn Grove. Mr. Heller is a Modern Woodmen of American and in politics is a democrat.

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