- ARTHUR C. HELM, M.D., of the medical firm of A. C & E.
C. HELM, physicians and
- surgeons, is one of the best known and most highly regarded
practitioners of the healing art in the city of Beloit, Rock
county. He is in the prime of life, commands a large and remunerative
practice, and has a host of friends throughout the city and county.
- Dr. HELM was born in Indiantown, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1857, and
is a son of Woodhull and Mary A.
- (CLARK) HELM, natives of New York and Amherst, Mass., respectively.
They were the parents of five children, all sons - Dr. Ernest
C., Dr. Arthur C., Dr. Walter B. and two who died in infancy.
The father was a miller. He was gifted with a profound enthusiasm
for scientific studies and became an expert upon all subject
relating to mining. He was a correspondent for mining publications
in the West and Southeast, and traveled extensively in California,
Nevada and North Carolina. While he was in the last-named State
he was seized with a very severe illness. He came North, but
he could not arrest the progress of the disease, and he died
in Rockford, Ill., in 1870, at the age of forty-five years, two
weeks after leaving North Carolina. His widow still survives,
and makes her home with her son, Dr. E. C. HELM, in Beloit.
She and her husband were Presbyterians. They were the first
couple married in the First Presbyterian Church of Beloit. Mr.
HELM was county superintendent of schools in Tama county, Iowa.
He was always a Republican.
- Woodhull HELM, the grandfather of our subject, was a native
of New York. He was of music,
- and had a reputation as a composer. He was twice married,
was the father of a large family, and died when about sixty-seven
years old. Elijah CLARK, the father of Mary A., noted above,
was a native of Massachusetts, and of English descent. He was
a farmer, and in the early days moved to the western part of
New York, where he died of fever when over fifty years old.
He had seven sons and one daughter who grew to maturity.
- Dr. Arthur C. HELM spent the first seven years of his life
in his birthplace, and was then taken by
- his parents to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he lived two years.
Two years he spent in Cabarrus county, N.C., and five years
at Beaver Dam, Wis., where he entered the service of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway Co. as telegraph operator, and spent
six years of his life with that company. His longest service
as an operator was made in Beloit, and there he formed associations
and interests that largely determined his location there as a
physician in after years. He attended the public schools of
Beaver Dam and the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.,
and was graduated from the medical department of that institution
with high honors in 1884, taking first prize for scholarship
throughout the entire course. The same year he began practicing
in Beloit, in partnership with Dr. H. B. JOHNSON. In 1887 the
firm was dissolved, and Dr. HELM practiced alone until 1889,
in which year he formed a partnership with his brother, Ernest
C., who is a capable physician, and they have continued together
until the present time.
- The wedding ceremonies of Dr. Arthur C. HELM and Miss Mary
McMURDO, daughter of
- James and Ann (REED) McMURDO, were celebrated Aug. 10, 1886,
and four children have come to bless this union - Harold, Alice,
Clara and Mary. The Doctor and his wife are members of the First
Congregational Church, and he is associated with the Knights
of Pythias. He is a student and an enthusiast in his profession.
He belongs to the American Medical Association and to the Central
Wisconsin Medical Association. Politically he is a Republican,
and at present represents the First ward in the city council.
He lives at No. 734 Broad street, and his home is the center
of many social and friendly interests.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 84-85.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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