Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records
of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio
- Illustrated -
Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.,
1894

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	HENRY ADAMS - See F.E. WILCOX Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 261
	NELSON O. ALLEN, son of Joseph and Martha (Devore) Allen, was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1858.  Joseph Allen was a native of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and is a descendant of the pioneer Allens of the Valley of Virginia, whose names are associated with agrarian affairs in Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and with the Revolution here, in which many of them served their adopted country.  Martha (Devore) Allen is a native of Richland township, and the mother of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the eldest.      Nelson O. Allen grew to manhood in Richland county.  Less than a decade ago he came to New London, and was engaged as clerk in one of the houses there until he became connected with the D. J. C. Arnold manufacturing concern when it was organized.  His business ability was so apparent that his connection with this manufacturing enterprise promised success, and redeemed the promise.  His marriage with Josephine Reich, daughter of Uriah and Mary Reich, took place on the eighth day of January, 1880, at New London; she was born in Cleveland, Ohio.  Politically Mr. Allen is a Republican, one of the most active members of the party in Huron county.  A representative of his township in county and district convention, and chairman of the New London delegation in the county convention of 1891, he was nominated for sheriff on the Republican ticket in 1892, and elected sheriff in 1892.      In Society affairs our subject is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He is a bright and progressive young man, who can fill the dual role of business man and politician with east and success.  As sheriff of Huron county, the administration of that office must be satisfactory to all. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 147
	W. S. ANDREWS, son of Samuel and Eunice (Taylor) Andrews, was born in 1843, in Fairfield township, Huron county, Ohio.       Samuel Andrews was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., and resided there until his marriage with Eunice Taylor.  The young couple then removed to Huron county, Ohio, and settled in Fairfield township, where Mrs. Andrews died in her seventy-sixth year.  Samuel Andrews, now over eighty years old, resides with his son, W. S. at Greenwich.  They had two sons.      W. S. Andrews was educated in the district schools, and subsequently took a commercial course in Oberlin College.  Returning home, he worked on the home place until he was twenty-six years old, when he established himself as a dealer in horses, making a specialty of fine coach and carriage horses for the New York and Boston markets.  He located at Greenwich in 1882, when he established a livery in connection with his stables.  In 1884 he sold his livery interests, in order to give exclusive attention to his growing business in fine horses.  Animals worth from two hundred and fifty dollars to eight hundred dollars are always ready in his stables for shipment, and his representation of a horse is accepted, for their is no better judge of horses in the county than he is.  The fact that he has a horse in his stable is a certain guarantee that the animal possesses all the points necessary in a coach or carriage horse.  He is recognized as a thoroughly reliable, honest business man, and he generally receives his own price for his stock.      Mr. Andrews was united in marriage, in Fairfield, with Miss Flora Wright.  In politics he is a Republican.  As a citizen he has done much to encourage the breeding of fine stock, and has exerted a beneficial influence on the horse markets of eastern cities. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 510
	ALVIN ANDERSON - See STEPHEN F. CLARKE Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 108
	CHARLES W. ARNOLD, M. D., who for the past several years has conducted a general mercantile business at Townsend Center, was born Aug. 11, 1825, in Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y., the eldest of two children born to James and Emily (Cook) Arnold, the former of whom was a native of Norwalk, Conn., the latter of Dutchess county, N. Y.  Both were of English descent.      JAMES ARNOLD received in his youth but a limited school training, but in after years he succeeded by his own exertions in acquiring a good practical English education, and a wide and varied stock of general information.  He was all his life a close reader, and was well post, not only on current topics, but also on general history - ancient and modern - and the various sciences.  His character was formed in the practical school of experience, and this rendered him broad and liberal in all his views.  IN early life he learned carriage-making at Utica, N. Y., with a man named Lloyd, serving an apprenticeship of some three years, after which he followed the trade for a time as a journeyman.  On Nov. 14 ,1824, he was united in marriage, in North Norwich, N. Y., to Miss Emily Cook, and in 1831 migrated westward to Ohio, coming via the Erie Canal to Buffalo, N. Y., and thence on a lakeboat, the "Sheldon Thompson," one of the earliest on the lakes, to Sandusky (then Portland).  On the same boat was a company of Wyandot chiefs, who were returning from a trip to Washington City.      Mr. Arnold located at Milan, Erie county, where he opened a carriage and wagon shop, and continued to follow his trade for some three or four years, when he removed to Townsend, Huron county.  Here he purchased wild land, and cleared and improved a farm, and was for several years engaged in agricultural pursuits; then, in 1849, he bought a slightly improved farm near Townsend Center, on which stood an old blockhouse.  He built the first frame house in Townsend Center (where he subsequently engaged in general merchandising), and also the first sawmill, which he sold to William and Dudley S. Humphrey.  For many years he was postmaster at East Townsend.  For several years he was in partnership, in the general mercantile business, with his younger son, who later bought out his father’s interest in the store, and removed the business to New York, after which Mr. Arnold led a retired life until his death, which occurred Mar. 26, 1882.  He was one of the oldest Masons in the county, having for a number of years been a member of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 04, F. & A. M., Norwalk, and afterward a charter member of East Townsend Lodge No. 322, and he was buried with Masonic ceremonies.  His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, rendering gallant service throughout the entire struggle, and at the battle of New London, Conn., was taken prisoner and confined in the famous sugar-warehouse prison in New York.  By profession he was a civil engineer and surveyor.      The ancestors of the Arnold family were among the hardy and patriotic pioneers of the old Hartland colony, and took an active and honorable part in the affairs of the commonwealth during Colonial days. Mrs. Emily (Cook) Arnold died Jan. 20, 1885, an ardent, lifelong member of the Baptist Church.  Her father, Joseph Cook, who was born in 1751, was also a soldier in the Continental army, having entered the service at an early age.  He participated in the engagement at Plattsburg and many other battles.       Dr. Charles W. Arnold, whose name opens this sketch, received in his early years a fair common-school education, and was employed on the home farm until he attained his majority.  He then commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Prof. B. L. Hill, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, completing his professional education at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, whence he graduated with high honors in 1850.  Entering upon the duties of his profession at Townsend Center, his old home, he remained there several years, and then practiced in the vicinity of Coldwater, Mich., for six or eight years.  From there he removed to Athens, Calhoun Co., Mich., where he continued to practice about three years, after which, in 1874, he abandoned his profession and returned to Townsend Center, to care for his parents, who were becoming aged and feeble.  Subsequent to their death, in 1886, he embarked in his present business, which he has since successfully carried on. In September, 1845, Dr. Arnold was married to Miss Eliza Jane Proctor, who was born in Ohio; her parents were natives, respectively, of England and Vermont.  To this union came two children: Horace S., who at the age of eighteen, in 1863, enlisted in Loomis’ Battery, from Coldwater, Mich., (he died Apr. 4, 1864, at Huntsville, Ala.), and Ida G., who died June 10, 1854, when aged four years.  Mrs. Eliza Arnold died June 4, 1854, a Universalist in religious faith, and on Oct. 17, 1873, our subject wedded, for his second wife, Miss Jennie L. Howard, who was a native of Michigan and of English-German extraction.  In politics the Doctor is a Democrat, and served for several years as postmaster at East Townsend.  Socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., East Townsend Lodge No. 322, and also of the I. O. O. F., Subordinate Lodge and Encampment. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 91-92
D. J. C. Arnold	D. J. C. ARNOLD, manufacturer of brick and tile makers' supplies, and metal wheels, New London, is a native of Massachusetts, born Oct. 27, 1854, in the town of Adams, where he received his education.      In 1876 Mr. Arnold came west to Ohio, and locating in New London, Huron county, commenced in the lumber business.  In 1878 he established his present industry, the factory being, perhaps, the largest one in the United States devoted to the special manufacturing of brick and tile-yard supplies.  The buildings have a total area of between 22,000 and 23,000 feet of floor space, and being located on the main line of the "Big Four" Railroad system, which extends over a large portion of the most populous section of the United States, the shipping facilities are unsurpassed.  Shipments are made directly to all parts of the country, with but very few changes.  The Pittsburgh, Akron & Western Railroad also runs here, and the Baltimore & Ohio through line is very near.  The industry does an extensive trade even as far as the Pacific coast, including all intermediate points, and enjoys an unprecedented local patronage.  Among the catalogued articles manufactured by Mr. Arnold may be mentioned the following:   Represses, dump carts, brick, mud, tile, sand and other barrows, patent pallet trucks, spring trucks, dry press trucks, patent sewer pipe trucks, and sewer pipe and other barrows; pug mill shafts; wrought iron tempering wheels; machine and hand molds of all kinds; brick edgers, etc., as well as everything pertaining to the proper outfitting and furnishing of brick and tile kilns.  Special mention may here also be made of the metal wheels for trucks and barrows turned out by the Arnold Metal Wheel Company, for which are light, strong, durable and handsome, and have been in use long enough to demonstrate that they are all that is claimed for them, and that they never fail to give satisfaction.  The superiority of good metal wheels over wood, or a combination of wood and iron, has been proven to the wood and iron, has been proven to the satisfaction of all who are used them, and who now use no other.      Mr. Arnold is looked upon as the ne plus ultra busines man of New London, his energy and enterprise being proverbial; and in the affairs of both town and county he wields a potent influence in the line of progressiveness and reform.  In his political sympathies he is a straight Republican. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 358-359
	JAMES ARNOLD - See CHARLES W. ARNOLD Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 91-92
	ARTHUR.  The families of this name in Greenfield Township are descended from sturdy, honest North of Ireland people, for the most part tillers of the soil.      JOHN ARTHUR, grandfather of Robert and William H. Arthur, of Greenfield township, was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, where his son John was born Feb. 18, 1795.  This John received a practical education at the schools of his native place and was reared to agricultural pursuits.  He married Martha Easter, also a native of County Tyrone, and this union was born, in Ireland, one child, Margaret.  In 1822 the family emigrated to America, pushed westward from New York to Huron county, Ohio, and settled on a tract of land in Greenfield township.  There was a small clear-ing on this tract, which was an extra inducement to the stranger to purchase it for two dollars and a half per acre.  On this farm the other children of the family were born, namely: Ann J., who is now the widow of James McPherson; Mary widow of Thomas Irwin; Robert and William H., sketches of whom follow, and Catherine, who resides in Greenfield township.  Margaret, the eldest child, married Alexander Lewis, and lived to be sixty-two years of age.  The mother of this family died in 1879.  John Arthur was one of the most successful pioneers of Greenfield township.  His farm grew from very small beginnings to a tract of 700 acres, and when he died, in 1888, this large place was highly improved from end to end - the result of his indomitable energy coupled with industry and shrewdness.  In political affairs he affiliated with the Democratic party, and held various township offices, in which he was always faithful in the discharge of his duties.  In religious matters he and his wife were active members of the Congregational Church, which they helped organize, and were its main supporters in this district.  Mr. Arthur filled several offices in this church.      ROBERT ARTHUR, eldest son of these honored pioneers, was born March 4, 1829.      He passed his boyhood in the manner common to pioneer children - farm work, in one form or another, taking first place in his training.  On Dec. 27, 1867, he married Julia E. Cook, who was born in Peru township, Huron county, daughter of Wyatt Cook, a native of Mt. Holly, Vt., who came to Huron county, Ohio, in 1818, settling in Peru township.  Here he was married to Sophia Root, of North Monroeville, and they resided in Peru township until 1870, when they removed to Fairfield township, where he died.  Their children were Sarah, Mrs. Spencer Sumerlin; Chauncey C., now in Waterloo, Iowa; Elma, deceased; Jay, deceased; Anna and James, in Fairfield township; and Julia E.  In politics Mr. Cook was originally a Whig, afterward becoming a Republican, and an ardent Abolitionist.  In religious belief he was from his youth a member of the Freewill Baptist Church at Greenfield.  To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur the following named children were born:  Mattie G., Clarence C., J. Vinton, Laura A. and Fred R.  Immediately after his marriage he located on his present farm.  He is now the owner of 1,200 acres of choice land, and is the heaviest tax-payer on real estate in his township.  In addition to carrying on general farm work, he is also engaged in stock growing and dealing in cattle.  While he inherited considerable land, he is personally deserving of great credit for the progress he has made.  Other young men could and would have dissipated the inheritance in a little while; but over it and around it he has built up a most valuable property, and has become, if not the largest farmer in Huron county, the largest, certainly, in Greenfield township.  Almost two square miles of land tell of his acquisitions in a quarter of a century, while his sheep and cattle speak of the varied directions in which his agricultural tastes run.  A heavy wool-grower and cattle dealer as well as an extensive farmer, he appears to have developed the very best principles of agriculture.  His residence is the finest in the township, elegantly furnished and homelike.       A warm-hearted neighbor, and a most lenient landlord, Mr. Arthur walks through life unassumingly, as one who cannot realize the important relation which he bears to the community or the very high place which he and his family hold in the public estimation.  Politically he is a Democrat, and is an enthusiastic supporter of his party.  He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, in which he has been a trustee for some years.      WILLIAM H. ARTHUR, second son of John and Martha (Easter) Arthur, was born Feb. 20, 1831.      He received a fair education in the common schools of his district, and subsequently labored on the home farm until 1867, when he married Jennie, daughter of William H. Armstrong, of the same township.  To this marriage was born one son, who died in infancy.  Mrs. Arthur died April 15, 1888, and was buried in Steuben cemetery.  After his marriage Mr. Arthur located on the farm where he now resides, but for the last quarter of a century has not been actively engaged in farm work.  Beyond the business of loaning money on real estate, and collecting rents from the tenants on his property, his life is practically a retired one, so far as business is concerned.  He takes an active interest in the success of the Democratic party; but although he has held various township offices he is not a politician, and he has never sought office.  He is a member of the Congregational Church, and for several years was a trustee in that Society.  HE is a reader and a close observer, conversant with the times and manners, and well posted on American public affairs. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 148

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