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Local History- Helmetta. One of the Helme Sons was on the 1869 Rutgers Football Team! Interesting article.

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From the Article:

The Herbert House

Olivia Antoinette "Etta’’ Helme was the oldest of George W. and Margaret’s three children, possibly born in 1854. Etta founded or co-founded the St. George Episcopal Church, the Herbert House for homeless children, and the Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art in Augusta, Ga., named for her daughter, Gertrude Herbert Dunn.

Etta married John Warne Herbert Jr. on Nov. 10, 1885. Beside living in the mansion, they also lived in New York City and Augusta.

Herbert — whose father was associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Monmouth County, twice a Republican National Convention delegate and a member of Monmouth County’s Tax Board — was an interesting person himself.

Herbert played on the first intercollegiate football game, with his Rutgers University team defeating Princeton University in 1869, and was a Helmetta mayor, vestryman at St. George Episcopal Church, a lawyer in New Jersey and New York City, chairman of the New Jersey Highway Commission, a Rutgers University trustee, president of the Union League Golf Club in New York City, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress. Beside being an official in the snuff mill, Herbert also was an officer in the Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad Co;
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