WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
                FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER 
                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884


  Arnold, Charles A., farmer, was born in 1840, in the town of Rush, Jo Daviess county, Illinois. His 
 parents were Adam and Anna M. Arnold of Pennsylvania, and were among the pioneer settlers of 
 that state. He was reared on a farm there, and married Helena Black, daughter of Elam, elsewhere 
 sketched, January 25, 1862. On th 5th of August, same year, he enlisted in the 96th Ill. regt., and 
 joined the army of the Tennessee, serving till June 28, 1865. Was in the following battles: 
 Chickamauga, Buzzard's Roost, Rocky Ford Bridge, Resaca, New Oak Church, Pine Mountain, 
 Kennesaw Mountain, Pearl Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville. Although he received 
 no wounds, his health was permanently injured, the effects being more apparent as time goes by. In 
 the winter of 1860-1 he was here and bought land, which he afterward sold. After the war closed he 
 took up his residence in Mazeppa, where he owns a house and two lots. He is an enthusiastic 
 republican. Orthodox in faith. Has seven children, christened this: Jula A. (Mrs. James Stull), lives in 
 town of Mazeppa; Charles E., Edith M., Freddie H., Bertie Freeman, Wayne and Glenn.