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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [413-414]

           NELSON P. ARNOLD, station agent for the Port Huron & North-
        western Railroad Company at Sand Beach, was born Oct. 5, 1854, in
        Kent Co., Ont. His parents, SAMUEL E. and MARGARET A. (MILLS)
        ARNOLD, are both living in Kent County, Ont., where the father is
        the proprietor of 200 acres of fine farming land. The paternal
        grandparents of MR. ARNOLD were natives of Pennsylvania, of German
        descent. They removed to Ontario before the Rebellion. His great-
        grandfather, LOUIS P. ARNOLD, was a volunteer in the Civil War in
        the United States, and died in Kent County, Ont., aged 104 years.
        LOUIS S., his grandfather, is still living, in Ontario, and is 84
        years of age.
           MR. ARNOLD was reared on his father's farm to the age of 15
        years, when he began to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner, in
        which he spent two years. In 1872 he came to St. Clair County,
        Mich., and became a clerk in the employ of his uncles, M. & B.
        MILLS, lumber dealers at Marysville, with whom he remained seven
        years, meanwhile taking a complete course of study at Bryant &
        Stratton's Business College at Cleveland, Ohio. On leaving the
        employ of his uncles he went to Port Huron and there engaged in a
        grocery in the capacity of book-keeper. His next employ was with
        the Northern Transportation Company in that city, where he was a
        telegraph operator one year. In the fall of 1879 he came to Sand
        Beach as telegraph operator for the Western Union Company, in whose
        service he remained until the completion of the railroad, when he
        was appointed to the position he has since held. With the aid of
        one assistant, he officiates as ticket agent, telegraph operator
        and baggage agent, and officiates as "display-man" in the Govern-
        ment service, in which capacity he displays the flags in the United
        States Signal Service, at Sand Beach Station.
           MR. ARNOLD was married Oct. 5, 1882, at Sand Beach, to JENNIE
        JENKS. One child, MARY B., was born to them, Aug. 20, 1883. MRS.
        ARNOLD is the daughter of JESSE L. and MARY JENKS (see sketch of J.
        L. JENKS), and was born Jan. 25, 1861, in St. Clair, Mich.

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