[1] Upon returning to the United States, Arthur finished his schooling at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo and then attended Bryant and Stratton College.

[2] In 1881, along with his father Jacob and Charles Brush, they founded of the "Brush Electric Light Company of Buffalo"[1] which built an electric generator that operated by mechanical power, supplied by the canal water, which used 16 carbon arc lights to illuminate Niagara Falls at night.

The Farms was located in what was then open land in the Town of Niagara, but is now within the City of Niagara Falls, the modern boundaries of the farm are Hyde Park Boulevard (then Sugar Street) on the west, Ontario Street on the north, Linwood Avenue on the south and Gill Creek on the east.

In an 1897 article, his administration was characterized by "no scandals, no jangles in the Common Council; the sessions have been business like and have not lasted all night… he has made the best Mayor we have had.

"[11] After a year in office, Schoellkopf made the decision not to run for a second term[4] citing that "his private business would not allow him to devote the necessary time to the city's affairs" and so he declined the Republican mayoral nomination for 1897.

After a funeral service at the First Presbyterian Church on First Street, Schoellkopf's remains were placed in a vault at Oakwood Cemetery in Niagara Falls to be buried later in the family plot at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, New York.

It was later decided by the family to have him remain in Niagara Falls, so Schoellkopf and his wife Jessie, who died in 1928 (at her residence 1 West 70th Street in New York City[12]) are interred in the mausoleum at Oakwood Cemetery.

In 1906, Schoellkopf was approached by Peter A. Porter to donate a small triangular lot across from his residence in Niagara Falls, New York (at Main and Pine) for use as a city park.