Husband Manasseh Arnold 1
AKA: Manassa Arnold 2
Born: 17 Sep 1830 - York Co, PA 1
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Father: Peter Arnold (1794-1869) 3
Mother: Susannah Klugh (1795-1869) 4
Marriage: 3 Sep 1857 5
Wife Amanda Ross McKelvey 5
Born: 20 May 1839 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 5
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Father: Thomas McKelvey ( - ) 5
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1 F Myra Arnold 5
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Spouse: W. H. Mahey ( - ) 5
2 F Laura Frances Arnold 5
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Spouse: J. E. Hall ( - ) 5
3 M Thomas Arnold 5
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4 M Charles W. Arnold 5
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5 F Bertha Florence Arnold 5
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6 M Harry Arnold 5
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7 F Alice E. Arnold 5
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General Notes: Husband - Manasseh Arnold
He was raised on a farm, and received the usual common-school education given to a farmer boy of that period. At the age of sixteen years he came to Clarion County, Pennsylvania, secured a clerkship in a country store, and received for his services the first year seventy-two dollars, which was increased to $144 the second year, and, later, to $192. His services proved so satisfactory to his employer, James Laughlin, that on October 1, 1850, when in his twenty-first year, young Arnold was tendered a proposition to become a partner of his employer, which he graciously accepted, the terms being most favorable. The style of the firm became Laughlin & Arnold, and was formed for the purpose of carrying on mercantile business, lumbering, milling, boat-building and dealing in live-stock at Leatherwood post office, near St. Charles Furnace, Clarion County. About one year later the senior member of the firm met with an accident in the flouring-mill, which nearly cost him his life, and for a long time incapacitated him from transacting business; however, he finally recovered sufficiently to assist in some of the minor affairs of the business, but remained an invalid until his death. This circumstance placed a large business and great responsibilities on the junior member of the firm, which he proved equal to, and which expanded and developed his business ideas and tact. During these twenty years our subject practically carried on the business. In 1876 he came to Clarion to assume the duties of prothonotary of the county, to which office he had been elected in 1875, he being the only Republican up to that time (1898) that was ever elected to that office in Clarion County. In the election of 1874 the Democratic candidate carried the county by a majority of 1,300. In the following year Mr. Arnold was elected by a majority of more than 400 - evidence of his great popularity, and of the confidence the people of the county had in him. He was always opposed to the practice of purchasing of votes, and of the trading of votes so often resorted to in elections. He used neither method, and was elected by having expended less than $100 in making the canvass, a fact that he and his friends were proud of. He served as such officer for three years. Following this term of office there was a time when Mr. Arnold was out of active business, during which he purchased property and improved it, or erected new buildings. At that time he built what was known as the Arnold building, later occupied by Arnold Brothers. In 1883 he again engaged in mercantile business, which he conducted until 1890, when he turned the business over to his sons. Mr. Arnold, in connection with others, during his active business career was the holder of some 1,400 acres of timber lands. During his long business career in Clarion County, he was an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, as evidenced in the many improvements he made and the buildings erected by him in the borough of Clarion. Before coming to the borough of Clarion, he was for fifteen years a justice of the peace in the county; and he was a Republican from the organization of the party. Time and again he declined public honors. He was not only president of the Second National Bank of his home borough, but was vice-president of the First National Bank of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he was president of the Clarion and Tylersburg Gas Company.
He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church, Mr. Arnold being a trustee, steward and a class-leader in the church, and for about thirty years was superintendent of the Sunday-school.