Dr. Arthur C. Helm was born in Indiantown, Iowa on October 23, 1857, the son of Woodhull and Mary Clark Helm. His mother was a member of a pioneer South Beloit family, her brother Dr. E.N. Clark being a founder of that city.

The Helm family moved to Beloit when Dr. Helm was a child, where he attended the old “Brick Pile” school and graduated from Beloit High School. For a time after graduation he served as a telegraph operator for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Beloit and Lodi, Wisconsin. He then entered the Medical College of Northwestern University graduating in 1884.

After graduation he returned to Beloit to practice medicine and continued as a physician in Beloit until May, 1932 when he retired because of ill health. Dr. Helm served the Northwestern Railroad in Beloit as physician and surgeon. During World War I he served on the draft board as physician.

Dr. Helm was one of a family of physicians. He was associated with his brother, Dr. Ernest Helm, in practice here for many years and another brother Dr. Walter Helm, a Rockford physician. Also three of his uncles and two of his brothers were physicians and a son, Dr. Harold M. Helm, was a Beloit physician.

Dr. Arthur Helm was a leader in county and state medical associations and was a long-time member of the American Medical Society. He was one of the founders of what was at that time the Beloit Hospital and one of the first to establish a clinical type of medical center in Beloit.

Dr. Helm died at his home at 647 Milwaukee Road on Friday, December 24, 1937. Funeral services were held in the First Congregational Church on Tuesday, December 28, 1937, with the Reverend E.E. Voelkel officiating.