From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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CHARLES H. ARNOLD
	Charles H. Arnold, of Loonlake,Stevens county,had led an eventful 
and successful life. He is the son of John H. and Almeda (Butts) Arnold,and 
was born in Augusta,Maine,December 25,1847. His father was one of the 
influential,progressive men of Augusta,and prominent in municipal affairs.
Both parents were buried at Augusta.
   Until the age of seventeen,Charles H.Arnold attended the excellent public
schools of Augusta,when he enlisted,January 1,1864,in Company E.,Fourteenth
Maine Infantry. Following the close of the war,he attended another school
year,and,in 1867,removed to Montana,where he was associated with a fur com-
pany and which he remained three months. At the time of the Nez Perce Indian
outbreak he was connected with the Pony Express,in government service. He
then established a trading post in Wyoming,dealing with the Ute Indians. In
1879 he began work on the Northern Pacific raildoar,with which he remained
until its completion. Mr.Arnold was the first white man who held land on the
Little Spokane river against the Indians,and he lived upon it three years. He
then came to Loonlake,Stevens county,purchased a half section of railroad
land,and also taken up a homestead of onr hundred and sixty acres. He is
interested in the Loonlake Development Company,and the owner of considerable
stock. 
   On September 13,1880,Mr.Arnold was married to Miss Laura E.Dyer,daughter
of Abraham and Minerva Dyer,natives of Kansas. She crossed the plains to Cal-
ifornia with her parents while yet a babe. Their marriage was the first
wedding in Spokane. Mrs.Arnold's father lives on the Columbia river,and
is postmaster of Dyer,named in his honor.He was the father of four children,
two of whom are living,William and Laura. Our subject has the following
named sisters and brothers,Hannah,Almeda,celia,Mary E.,Alice V.,and John F.
   Until the assassination fo President Garfield Mr.Arnold was a Republican.
Since then he has affilisted with the Democratic party and 1901 was a dele-
gate to the Democratic state convention at Spokane. He is a member of Reno 
Post,G.A.R.,Spokane. Mra. Arnold is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church.
   
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