Jacob Helm Biography


	This biography appears on pages 518 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				JACOB HELM. 

	Jacob Helm, vice president and assistant cashier of the First 
State Bank of Java, Walworth county, is one of the most efficient young 
business men in his community and is held in high esteem. He is also 
serving as city treasurer and gives the same care to his public duties 
as to the management of the bank. He was born in southern Russia on the 
7th of March, 1883, a son of Fred and Christina Helm, also natives of 
that country. In 1892, when Jacob Helm was a lad of nine years, the 
family emigrated to America and settled upon a farm in Walworth county, 
South Dakota, where the parents resided until 1914, when they removed 
to Java, where they are now living. 

	Jacob Helm received a good common-school education and remained 
at home until he began clerking in a store in Java, where he was 
employed until 1905. He entered the First State Bank of Java, with 
which he has since been connected, being now vice president and 
assistant cashier of that institution. The bank has the full confidence 
of the business men of Java and is in excellent financial condition. On 
the 1st of July, 1915, the deposits totaled sixty-two thousand twenty-
four dollars and forty-five cents, the surplus fund was twenty five 
hundred dollars and the undivided profits thirteen hundred and seventy 
dollars. The bank is capitalized for fifteen thousand dollars and its 
affairs are so managed that it yields a good income to its stockholders 
and the interests of depositors are amply protected. 

	Mr. Helm was married in 1906 to Miss Katie Jesser, a native of 
South Dakota and a daughter of Fred and Maria Jesser, both of whom were 
born in Russia and are now residing in Java. Mr. and Mrs. Helm have two 
children, Albert E. and Laura C. The parents belong to the Lutheran 
church and take an active and helpful interest in its work. 

	Mr. Helm is a republican and for two years, in 1910 and 1911 
served acceptably as mayor of Java, while at the present time he is the 
present efficient city treasurer. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic 
blue lodge, of which he is serving as treasurer, and he has many 
friends both within and without that organization. Although he is still 
a young man he has gained a creditable place in local financial circles 
and his continued success seems assured