When Gustav Adolph Helming was born on 15 May 1885, in Herman, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Frederick August Helming, was 31 and his mother, Sophia Dohmeier, was 25. He married Minnie Boedecker in 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 29 March 1937, in Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States.