Biography

04/14/1846 - 02/02/1934

HELFRICH, Aaron Sipe, a Representative from Snyder County; born, April 14, 1846 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa.; wagon master, private, Company D, 74th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865, Civil War); dry goods merchant; proprietor, clothing store; elected, treasurer, Snyder County (2 terms); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Beaver Springs, Pa.; elected as a Republican for the 1887 and 1889 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1891 term; died, February 2, 1934 in Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania.