B Arie

ARIE

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 5/4/2010 at 09:12:09

B Arie, agent at Boone for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association of St Louis, and prominently associated with the building industry in this city, was born in Brody, Austria-Hungary in 1847. His educational opportunities entered the Roumanian army, his country being allied with the Russians at that period. He participated in the Russian and Roumanian wars of 1877-78 and during that period he lost the sight of his left eye.
Hoping to find better business opportunities in the new world than he believed he could secure in the old, Mr Arie came to the United States in 1881, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained for a short time. He then went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in the bottling business but he did to meet with the profit that he had anticipated in that connection, and he left Omaha in 1882, removing to Boone, where he establishing bottling works. He continued in the business here until 1894 and fro that time tot the preset he has been connected with the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association of St Louis as its agent and representative in Boone. This does not cover the extent of his business activity, however, for he has been largely associated with the building industry at Boone, where he has erected many fine structures that are a monument to his spirit of enterprise and are a credit to this city. These include the Opera House block and the Arie building. He was the builder of the Arie Hotel at Madrid, Iowa, and he has also been the builder of three buildings which he has given to his three grandchildren-Ruth, Janette, and Ethel-and these three buildings are named the Virginia, the Ethel and the Helen.
Mr Arie was united in marriage to miss Eva Abrams, and they became the parents of three children, but two have passed away, the other being O B who is now engaged in the real estate business in Boone. Mr Arie has never had found the opportunities which he sought and working his way steadily upward, has reached a position among the most substantial business men of Boone. Not all days in his career have been equally bright. At times he has seen the clouds of business disasters gathering, but even then he has not lost heart and courage,. He has ever recognized the fact that industry wins, and his intelligently directed effort has at length won reward in the attainment of a handsome competence.

1914 Boone County History Book