Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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MARION ARNOLD

Marion ARNOLD, a resident of Harrison Township, is a native of Knox County, Ohio, born in May, 1827, and is a son of Moses and Mary (MORGAN) ARNOLD, natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively. Our subject was reared in the Buckeye State, until he was eighteen years of age, and was brought up to farm life. The family removed to Indiana, and remained until 1856, and then came to Iowa, locating in Decatur County. The mother died in Ohio, and the father in Harrison County, Iowa, to which locality he came in 1869. They had a family of sixteen children, our subject being the third child, and when about twenty years of age, he began life for himself, coming to Harrison County in 1868, from Pottawattamie County. He is a carpenter by trade, but has paid special attention to his farm labors. He came to Harrison Township in 1886. He operates the KELLOGG farm.

Politically he is a supporter of the Republican party. He was married in 1860 to Miss Susan STEWART, who was born in Ohio, in 1837. By this marriage union five children have been born -- Ella J., wife of James BOYD, residing in Harrison Township; Albert, in Harrison Township; Mary E., wife of Justin RIGG, a resident of Lincoln Township; Charles E. and Orville M., at home.

Our subject and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. ARNOLD is the oldest representative of his father's family. His father passed from the scenes of this life about 1885.

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