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: 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, daughter of Dora and 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 after divorce from Julius Helft)
Right: Dorothy Delbrugge, left and sister Bessie, 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)