WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
*****************************************************************************
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>.
*****************************************************************************


			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, James, farmer. Among the early settlers of Zumbro township was the subject of this 
 paragraph. He is a native of England, born July 9, 1832, in Swallowelift, Wiltshire. His father, James 
 Arnold, was an innkeeper and market gardener, and died when the son was seventeen years old. The 
 latter received a fair education, and is now a well-informed and useful citizen. He is a liberal patron of 
 the newspapers, and has a large and choice library of books. Probably very few farmers maintain so 
 large a one. At eighteen years of age young Arnold set out for America to find a home for his 
 widowed mother and sisters. He spent three years at Brecksville, Ohio, serving the first two in 
 learning the mason's trade. While here, his mother and family arrived, and all removed in 1853 to 
 Danville, Illinois. Mr. Arnold purchased some land in Clark county, that state, on which the family 
 dwelt, while he pursued his trade at Danville. In 1857 the family set out for Minnesota, traveling all the 
 way with four yokes of oxen. On arrival in Zumbro, Mr. Arnold took up one-fourth of section 32, 
 where the family remained. Here the mother still dwells. Shortly before her removal to America she 
 married Stephen Sumner, who died here in August 1879. Her daughters, Mrs. G. C. Everett and Mrs. 
 Sidney Corp, are elsewhere mentioned in this work. After two and one-half years' residence here, 
 Mr. Arnold returned to Illinois and remained for alike period, and again returned to Minnesota, with a 
 horse team this time, bringing a bride, to whom he was united in 1862. Mrs. Arnold's maiden name 
 was Mary A. Wheeler, and she was born in Tavistock, Devonshire, England, In the fall of 1868 Mr. 
 Arnold took up his residence in Farmington township, south of Zumbro, where he served two years as 
 justice of the peace, and now resides. His political opinions agree with the republican party. Himself 
 and wife were among the first members of Greenwood Wesleyan Methodist church. By persistence 
 and continued toil Mr. Arnold has secured a comfortable home. His is now in possession of three 
 hundred and sixty acres of fine prairie soil, a part of which lies in Zumbro. His family includes six sons 
 and one daughter-all, save the eldest, at home, one son having died in infancy. Here are their names: 
 Charles, Franklin William, Ernest G., Arthur Wesley, Wallace James, Alice M. and Earl R.