WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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Biography transcribed & donated to Wabasha County, MN Bios by
Barbara Koska Timm.  For more information, please check
out her site "Biographies and Historical Sketches of Wabasha County,
Minnesota" at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio>.
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		    "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY MINNESOTA"
                               COMPILED BY
                         FRANKLYN CURTISS-WEDGE
                                AND OTHERS

                                ILLUSTRATED

                               WINONA, MINN.
                          H. C. COOPER, JR., & CO.
                                   1920


 Arens, Matthew (page 415), a member of the firm of McDonough & Arens, general merchants of 
 Kellogg, is one of the live business men of this thriving community, and a citizen held in high esteem. He was 
 born in Greenfield Township, Wabasha County, December 29, 1893, son of John and Amelia (Weber) 
 Arens. The father was a native of the Duchy of Luxemburg, and the mother of Baden-Baden, Germany. On 
 coming to Wabasha County they took land in Greenfield Township, where they are now living on a 
 160-acres farm, engaged in general agriculture and stock raising. They are the parents of five children, all 
 now living in Wabasha County, namely: Emil, Barbara, Michael, Margaret and Matthew. Matthew Arens 
 was brought up on his parents' farm and in his boyhood attended both the parochial and district schools. 
 While attending school in Wabasha he worked in his brother's store there. Subsequently he became clerk for 
 John Costello & Co., with whom he remained four years. In 1916 he entered into his present business as a 
 partner with James McDonough, and is now in the full tide of a prosperous career as one of the leading 
 merchants of Kellogg, the firm handling all the various kinds of goods forming the stock of an up-to-date 
 general store. Mr. Arens was married November 7, 1916, to Bessie Odell, daughter of Bert and Margaret 
 Odell, of Kellogg. He and his wife have one son, Matthew Odell. Mr. Arens and his family are members of 
 the Catholic church, and he belongs also to the Knights of Columbus. He is known far and wide as a 
 successful merchant, a good citizen and a true American. 


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