J.J. Arnold Bio
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J.J. Arnold Bio
From page 304 History of Clarke County, Biographical Sketches, Lewis Publishing 1886.
J.J. Arnold, the 3rd child of Barnard and Nancy P. (Utterback) Arnold, was born November 23, 1822, a native of Morgan County, Indiana. His parents were both natives of Kentucky, and were among the first settlers of Morgan County, Indiana. Ten children were born to them--Agnes, Noel, James, Elizabeth, Grandison, Willis, Eliza Jane, Nancy, Benjamin and Mary. J.J. Arnold was brought up on a farm and recieved his education in the primative log-cabin subscription schools of the early day. He subsequently engaged in building flat-boats, and carrying produce down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which he followed for several years. He was married at at the age of twenty-four years to Ellen Starks, who was born and reared in Kentucky.
By this marriage he had one daughter--Melissa Jane. In the fall of 1840, his family, in company with his fathers family, started for Iowa with an ox team, bringing with them come cattle and horses, but on account of sickness in his family our subject spent the winter at Lacon, Illinois.
He came to Clarke County, Iowa, in the spring of 1850, and located on land which his father had entered from the government the previous year. Here he built a log house and began to improve his land on which he has since made his home. Here his wife died in 1853, and in 1856 he was again married to Louisa Orr, formerly of Knox County, Ohio, a daughter of the Rev. John Orr, a prominent minister and circuit rider of the Methodist Church. They have five children living--Francis B., Seigel, Mary, Benjamin and Nina. Mr Arnolds is a worthy and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has served his township as a trustee, and has been a member of the School Board for several terms. He has always taken an active interest in the advancement of education or religion, and has assisted by his means and influence in building churches and school-houses. Quiet, unassuming, industrious and strictly honorable in all his dealings he has gained the confidence of all with whom he has business or social intercourse, and by his genial dispositon had made many friends.
J.J. Arnold, the 3rd child of Barnard and Nancy P. (Utterback) Arnold, was born November 23, 1822, a native of Morgan County, Indiana. His parents were both natives of Kentucky, and were among the first settlers of Morgan County, Indiana. Ten children were born to them--Agnes, Noel, James, Elizabeth, Grandison, Willis, Eliza Jane, Nancy, Benjamin and Mary. J.J. Arnold was brought up on a farm and recieved his education in the primative log-cabin subscription schools of the early day. He subsequently engaged in building flat-boats, and carrying produce down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which he followed for several years. He was married at at the age of twenty-four years to Ellen Starks, who was born and reared in Kentucky.
By this marriage he had one daughter--Melissa Jane. In the fall of 1840, his family, in company with his fathers family, started for Iowa with an ox team, bringing with them come cattle and horses, but on account of sickness in his family our subject spent the winter at Lacon, Illinois.
He came to Clarke County, Iowa, in the spring of 1850, and located on land which his father had entered from the government the previous year. Here he built a log house and began to improve his land on which he has since made his home. Here his wife died in 1853, and in 1856 he was again married to Louisa Orr, formerly of Knox County, Ohio, a daughter of the Rev. John Orr, a prominent minister and circuit rider of the Methodist Church. They have five children living--Francis B., Seigel, Mary, Benjamin and Nina. Mr Arnolds is a worthy and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has served his township as a trustee, and has been a member of the School Board for several terms. He has always taken an active interest in the advancement of education or religion, and has assisted by his means and influence in building churches and school-houses. Quiet, unassuming, industrious and strictly honorable in all his dealings he has gained the confidence of all with whom he has business or social intercourse, and by his genial dispositon had made many friends.