This very rare never published photograph of Ed Hellyer, a grain grinder from  New Alexandria, PA, was probably taken in the early 1920's. When not grinding grain at his granary (he was a miller by trade) he proved to be a great Pennsylvania trapshooting champion. Hellyer won the state Singles title in 1919 with a score of 395x400 at the Butler Rod and Gun Club. The Interstate Association decreed that all state singles championships be 300 targets in 1919 and 1920. That same year Hellyer finished second in the Grand American Handicap at Vandalia. In 1922 at Lancaster he tied for the title losing to Steve Crothers after each broke 197's. Is was Crothers first of fourteen State Singles titles in his career. In 1924 at the North End Gun Club in Allentown, Ed's 197 was good enough for his second title, disposing of V. L. Foster of McKeesport in a one round shootoff.

More on Hellyer.... (From family records)

A miller by trade and a sportsman extraordinary, Edward Hellyer was born at Puttstown, Huntingdon County, Pa., December 23, 1874. At Paradise Furnace he began his early training. A son of Edward Hellyer, who died in 1926, at the age of seventy-four years, and of Elizabeth (Putt) Hellyer. The town of Puttstown was named after the Putts. She died in 1927, aged seventy-six years. Edward Hellyer came before the general public in the years of 1919 and 1922, when he won the State Championship Trapshooting event at both state trapshoots. He tied for the Grand American Handicap in Chicago with 850 competitors; he has seventy-five prestigious prizes, including silver cups, gold and silver medals, etc. He had been a miller for thirty-six years. Has served on Election Board. A member of Reformed Church, Alexandria, Pa.; Benevolent Order of Elks, No. 976, Huntingdon, Pa.,; Modern Woodmen of America, Alexandria, Pa.; International Order of Odd Fellows, No. 286, Alexandria, Pa. Like most sportsmen, he is a Republican in politics. Has one sister Lucy, married to B. F. Hoover, Hesston, Huntingdon County, Pa., a farmer.

Edward Hellyer was married to Ida B. Stouffer, of Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pa. They had two daughters, Mary, married to Ernest Knott, Porter Twp,, is Vice-Principal Alexandria High School, Ruth, deceased, fourteen years of age; died of black diphtheria. Mr. Hellyer led a quiet life, is well known and a good sportsman.

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