Merced-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Arnold, L. F. 1877 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

L. F. ARNOLD

   Whoever labors to secure the development of his country, striving to bring
out its latent resources and devoted to the general welfare of the people, he it
is that earns a place as a public benefactor and is entitled to mention in the
pages of history. Of such may be chronicled the name of L. F. Arnold, who owns,
cultivates and lives on his fruit ranch of thirty acres two and three-quarters
miles southwest of Winton. He was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 12,
1877, a son of Laurence A. and Margaret (Mertz) Arnold. His father was born in
Germany and came to Pennsylvania, where he married Margaret Mertz and became a
truck farmer. They reared a family of ten children, and both died aged
seventy-two years.

   L. F. Arnold was the third of his father's family of ten children. He grew up
and attended the public schools and worked on his father's farm at Beaver Falls,
Pa. He took a commercial course in a business college and was bookkeeper in a
Pittsburgh grocery house. Mr. Arnold came to California in 1903, and to
Fruitland precinct in 1909, after six years spent in San Francisco. He moved out
to his present ranch in 1910. It is an excellent fruit ranch with a comfortable
country house and was once a portion of the Crocker-Huffman holdings.

   In 1907 L. F. Arnold was married to Miss Clara Steiner, one of the three
daughters of John and Phoebe (Grismore) Steiner. She was born and grew up at
Bluflton, Ohio, where her father was a carpenter and builder. He died eighteen
years ago. Her mother is still living at Merced. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have five
children, as follows: Paul I., in the high school; May P., in the grammar
school; and Frank S., Howard C, and Ruth E. Mr. Arnold and his good wife take an
active interest in public affairs. He has served as election judge, on the
school board and on the Fruitland Center of the Merced County Farm Bureau and is
now president of the latter bureau. For many years he served as president of the
Arena branch of the National Farm Loan Association. He is a director of the
Atwater Fruit Exchange.


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From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925

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