ARNOLD, George

ARNOLD, CONNER

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Date: 10/2/2001 at 19:56:39

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

GEORGE ARNOLD, engineer of passenger train on C. & N. W. Railroad; residence Second avenue, west of Fifth street; is a native of England, and was born Sept. 14, 1836; he came to America when 16 years of age. He came West to Chicago in 1853, and entered the employ of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, and lived at Babcock's Grove, now Lombard, near Chicago. He came to Clinton in 1864, and since then, for fifteen years, has run an engine on this division of the road; he has been in the employ of the road for twenty-five years, and he was never laid off a day, since running on the road, through misconduct; he runs passenger train from Clinton to Boone. He belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Knights of Pythias, and the Order of Workmen. In January, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Conner, from New York; they have four children -- Mary, Robert, Nellie, and Eddie.