Biographical Sketch of Herman Arnold, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Herman Arnold, farmer and stock raiser, Section 7, post office St.
Joseph, was born on April 19, 1832, Saxony, Germany, where he was
reared and received the benefits of a fair educatiion.  He learned
the stone mason's trade in his youth.  He came to America in Novem-
ber, 1853, landing in New York City, and has worked in many of the
principal cities in the East.  For three years he worked on the
capitol building at Washington.  His family settled at Warsaw, Ind.,
and remained there nine years; they then came West and settled at
Chicago, and from there to the place where he now resides.  He owns
a fine farm of 260 acres, well improved, with good orchards and
comfortable buildings.  When he landed at New York he had but three
dollars in his pocket, but he went to work, and by giving his atten-
tion to his business has succeeded admirably.  He was married in
May, 1853, to Miss Grenadine Behrens, a native of Germany.  They
have five children living, viz.: Mary, now Mrs. L. Everhart of St.
Joseph; Minnie; Charlie; Robert and Fritz.  The lost four children.
They attend the Lutheran Church.

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