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PROF. B. H. F. HELLEBUSCH was born in Damme, Province of Oldenburg, Germany, April 28, 1825, the son of Herman Hellebusch, who was a teacher also, and his eldest son, Bernard, taught over fifty years, and was retired on a pension by the German Government. Prof. B. H. F. Hellebusch, since coming to America, has had a career of teaching, extending over a period of forty-two years, as follows: Six years he was engaged as teacher at the Holy Trinity Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, and two years with the St. Philomena congregation; for thirty-four years he was the revered and honored teacher of the parish school attached to the church of the Mother of God, Covington, Ky. For the last two years of his life he taught at the Catholic school, attached to the St. Aloysius Church, Covington. The devoted teacher of Covington composed several works of merit, including “Prayer and Song” and “Cantata Catholica;” he was a first-class musician, and ranked high among the fraternity as an organist. For his first wife he married MissMary Putthoff, daughter of Frank Putthoff, who died leaving one child, and August 8, 1861, Mr. Hellebusch married Miss Margaret Merl, who bore him eight children. He taught the first school in Covington, and his family now hold a list of the pupils who were taught by him; among them were August Klentrup, George and Ben Bramlage, Mrs. P. Nodler, Mrs. B. Becker, L. A. Moser, Louis B. Kueven, and many others who have died or moved away from the city. Mr. Hellebusch leaves a brother, Clemens Hellebusch, the well-known wholesale jeweler of Walnut Hills, and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Specker of West Fifth Street and Mrs. Johnson of Willard Street, Covington. He owned his residence on the southeast corner of Fifth and Russell Streets, Covington, where he resided while living, and where his family still reside. He was a life-long Democrat, and belonged to all the Catholic societies.