LINNIE A. ARNOLD.   Though she has not yet attained to the age of thirty years, Miss Arnold has been for seven years an able and popular representative of the pedagogic profession in the fine little City of McArthur, the judicial center of Vinton County, and her entire period of service in this exacting and important vocation covers an interval of ten years.  Her success has been on a parity with her earnest devotion and unequivocal personal popularity and she is known as a young woman of high intellectual attainments, gracious presence and marked ability as a teacher and executive, her deep interest in the profession of her choice being significantly manifested in the enthusiasm which she brings to bear in its work. Miss Arnold became a teacher in the McArthur High School in 1908 and since 1911 she has held the position of principal of the same, her administration in this capacity having been marked by high scholastic ideals and progressive policies, so that the results have inured to raising the work of the high school to specially high standard, further interest attaching to her service here by reason of the fact that in 1902 she herself was graduated in the McArthur High School.  Her gentle and winning personality and unfailing kindliness and consideration retain to her the affectionate regard of those who receive instruction under her direction, and it may with all of consistency be said that her circle of friends is limited only by that of her acquaintances.  She is a representative of a sterling family whose name has been worthily linked with civic and material interests in this section of Ohio for many years, and while her kinsfolk in both the paternal and maternal lines have not in the present or earlier generations been persons of wealth or special prominence, they have stood exponent of staunch and loyal citizenship, of the highest principle, of abiding Christian faith and of usefulness and independence in connection with the practical affairs of life, so that the ancestral record, exemplifying the best of American ideals, is one in which she may properly take pride and satisfaction.
     After her graduation in the high school Miss Arnold entered Ohio Wesleyan University in the City of Delaware, and in this admirable institution she was graduated as a member of the class of 1906 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  In the summer of 1912 she completed an effective post-graduate course in the Universty of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, and she is indefatigable in constantly broadening her intellectual horizon through well ordered study and reading.  After teaching two years in the public schools of Nelsonville, Athens County, Miss Arnold became a teacher in the high school at McArthur, and three years later she was advanced to her present position, that of principal of the school, in which office she has made an admirable record that gives her prestige as one of the prominent and influential representatives of her profession in this section of her native state.
     Miss Arnold was born in Clinton County, Ohio, but was only three years of age when her parents established their home at McArthur, where she was reared to maturity and where she continued her studies in the public schools until she had completed the curriculum of the high school of which she is now the efficient and popular principal.  She is a daughter of William H. and Emma (Kennard) Arnold, both of whom were born, reared and educated in Vinton County, where they have continued their residence save for a period of three years in Clinton County.  Mr. Arnold was born in the year 1862 and is a scion of one of the well known and highly esteemed families of Vinton County, as is also his wife, their marriage having been solemnized in 1885.  In his youth Mr. Arnold learned the blacksmith's trade, to which he has continued to devote his attention to the present time, - a sturdy, upright, generous and industrious citizen who commands the confidence and good will of all who know him.  He has been engaged in the blacksmith business at McArthur consecutively save for the interval of three years in Clinton County, where he was similarly engaged.  He learned his trade under the effective direction of his father, James H. Arnold, who was born in Virginia and who was a boy at the time of his parents' removal from the historic Old Dominion to Ohio.  His father, Archibald Arnold, was one of the pioneer settlers of Vinton County, where he continued to reside until his death, and it is believed that the Arnold family was founded in Virginia in the early colonial era of our national history.  Archibald Arnold was twice married before leaving Virginia, and his second wife accompanied him and the children on the immigration to Ohio.  He was a skilled machinist and soon after establishing his residence in Vinton County he opened a village blacksmith shop in the little Hamlet of McArthur, this pioneer smithy having been situated on what is now High Street and in close proximity to the present Presbyterian Church.  Like his son and grandson who continued to uphold the social and material honors of the name in the study vocation of blacksmith, he was a man of strong and resolute character and steadfast integrity of purpose, so that he accounted well for himself as one of the world's noble army of workers and merited and received, the confidence and good will of his fellow men.  He was one of the well known and highly honored citizens of Vinton County and continued his residence at McArthur until his death, in July, 1906, at the patriarchal age of ninety-three years.  His second wife died within a few years after the family home was established in Vinton County, and thereafter he was twice married, his last wife having been Elizabeth Throcmorton and she having been eighty-nine years of age at the time of her death, in 1902, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his allegiance having been given to the whig party until the organization of the; republican party, when he cast in his lot with the latter, of whose cause he continued a staunch supporter during the residue of his long and useful life.
     James H. Arnold, grandfather of Miss Arnold of this review, learned the blacksmith trade under the direction of his father, whom he succeeded in the ownership of the shop established by the former at McArthur.    James H. continued as the skilled, successful blacksmith of Vinton County's judicial center for many years, was known for his great heart and strong and worthy manhood, and continued his activities at his trade until he retired in favor of his son, two years prior to his death, which occurred in February, 1910, his birth year having been 1834 and he having survived his venerable father by about four years.  His son William was associated with him in the blacksmith business from youth and succeeded to the full control of the pioneer business in 1908.
     William H. Arnold is thus the third of the name and of the third generation of the family to exemplify at McArthur the brawn and skill demanded in connection with the blacksmith trade, and he has in every sense upheld the prestige of the honored name which he bears.  His mother, whose maiden name was Tryphenia Westcoat, was born in Elk Township, Vinton County, Ohio, about the year 1837, and she still maintains her home at McArthur, well preserved in physical and mental powers, and a loved pioneer woman of the county.  She is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which her husband attended and liberally supported, and the latter was a stalwart republican in his political proclivities.  Of their children eight are still living and all tire married and well established in life.
     William Henry Arnold, father of the subject of this review, was a young man at the time of his marriage, in 1885, to Miss Emma Kennard, who was born at Locust Grove, Vinton County, on the 4th of October, 1862, a daughter of William J. and Martha (Culbertson) Kennard, both of whom were born and reared in Ohio, their marriage having been solemnized in Licking County.  Mr. and Mrs. Kennard maintain their residence in McArthur and are well known and highly esteemed citizens who are now venerable in years, Mr. Kennard having long been a successful contractor and builder by vocation.  He is a staunch republican in politics and has served in various local offices of public trust.  Both he and his wife are zealous and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at McArthur, and he has been one of its officers for many years, being at the present time a member of its board of trustees.  William H. and Emma (Kennard) Arnold hold membership in the Methodist Church in their home city, as does also their daughter Linnie A., of this review, who is the elder of their two children.  The younger of the children is James Frederick, who was born in the year 1890 and who now maintains his residence in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota.  He was graduated from McArthur High School in 1908 and attended the Ohio Northern University, at Ada.  He married Miss Charlotte Pond, of Clinton County, Ohio.  Miss Linnie A. Arnold is not only a successful teacher along academic lines but also serves as a teacher in the Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal Church of McArthur.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1182