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Interesting..Found another family biography. This one gives Sarah a different name.
PRESTON BRENTON ARNOLD is a plumbing, heating and electrical contractor, doing an
extensive business in Fort Wayne and Vicinity as president of the P. B. Arnold Company,
Incorporated, 213 East Main Street.
Mr. Arnold was born on a farm in Allen County, Indiana, July 12, 1884. His people,
particularly on his mother's side, were pioneers of Northern Indiana. His father, John
J. Arnold, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, May 14, 1849. The paternal grandfather
came from Germany, and he died in Ohio, and afterwards his widow came to Fort Wayne, where
she passed away in 1893. John J. Arnold was educated in Ohio and was twelve years of age
when taken to Kosciusko County, Indiana, where he also attended public school. He
afterwards studied in the LaGrange County Collegiate Institute, and another student of
that school was Ida Garmire, whom he subsequently married. Both of them taught school for
several years. They were married LaGrange County, where Ida Garmire was born December 2,
1853. She was a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Gettle) Garmire, the former a native of
Pennsylvania and the latter of England. Jacob Garmire moved to LaGrange County, Indiana,
during the 1840s, bought 160 a!
cres of wild land, and his labors cleared up and made a valuable farm of it, located in
Clay Township. He lived there until his death in 1883, and his widow passed away in 1914.
Of their twelve children five are now living.
John J. Arnold after his marriage settled on a farm in Allen County, in 1879, and in 1888
moved from this place in the country in Lake Township to Fort Wayne. He spent many years
with the Fort Wayne Post Office, and finally, at the age of seventy-two, was retired on a
pension. He died June 2, 1926, and his wife in 1921. John J. Arnold was a Knight Templar
Mason, a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, and was a man of fine character and had a
host of friends. Of his six children four are living.
Preston B. Arnold attended the grade and high schools of Fort Wayne and as a youth served
his apprenticeship as an electrician. He has also specialized in the plumbing and heating
business, and on July 10, 1910, he incorporated his business activities as the P. B.
Arnold Company. This is one of the old established concerns of its kind in Northeastern
Indiana, and many of the largest contracts for plumbing, heating and electrical
installation have been carried out by Mr. Arnold's firm.
He is interested in the social and civic life of his community, is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, member of Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Chamber of
Commerce, Knights of Pythias and Trinity Lutheran Church. He married, October 15, 1906,
Miss Lulu Pearl Meyer of Fort Wayne, where she grew up and attended grade and high school.
She passed away February 23, 1910, leaving one daughter, Virginia Lucile. Virginia was
born May 15, 1908, is a graduate of the Central High School and of the Ball Teachers
College with the class of 1928, and is now one of the members of the teaching staff in the
Fort Wayne public schools. Mr. Arnold on July 3, 1913, married Miss Lenna M. Markey, of
Fort Wayne. They have a daughter, Sarah Ann, born October 5, 1917, now attending high
school.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
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