Biographical Sketch of Marcus Arrington, Springfield, Greene County, MO

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Rev. Marcus Arrington.  This gentleman is the son of Abel and Margaret
(Cobb) Arrington, and was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, July
13th, 1820.  In 1823, his parents moved to Rhea county, Tenn., and in
the fall of 1829, they emigrated to Fulton county, Illinois, and in 
1839, came to Greene county, Missouri.  He was educated by B. McCord
Roberts, and at the school at Ebenezer.  Mr. Arrington then taught in
several of the counties in Southwestern Missouri for several years. 
From the scholars of his first school nine afterwards became ministers.
He was married in this county July 14th, 1842 to Miss L. McClure, dau-
ghter of John McClure.  They had by their union two sons and two daugh-
ters.  He carried on farming two years, and was then licensed to preach
by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and appointed to the Osceola
circuit.  In the fall of 1844, he joined the conference, and in 1845,
was appointed to Hartville circuit.  Then, at his own request, he was
discontinued, and farmed for two years.  He sold his farm, and, after
moving about for a year or two, he joined the St. Louis conference in
the fall of 1850, and preached upon different circuits.  After the
battle of Wilson's Creek, he took charge of some of the sick and wound-
ed, and finally took them to Lexington.  He then went to Arkansas, and
was appointed by Dr. Caples as chaplain of the Missouri State Guards,
under Gen. McBride.  At the battle of Pea Ridge, he was taken prisoner
and sent to Alton, Illinois, where he was kept five months, and then
released by order of the War department.  He then went South, where he
met his wife and children in Arkansas.  He then went to Illinois, and
remained until 1865.  He was then put upon a circuit, and so remains at
the present.  In 1870, he took his family to Arcadia, Iron county, Mo.
In 1873-4-5, was principal of Doniphan High School, Ripley county, Mo.,
and in 1878-9 taught the high school at Marble Hill, Missouri.  In the
fall of 1879, he took charge of the Mountain House Academy, and was its
principal for two years, and then returned to Springfield.  In the fall
of 1882, he was the Greenback candidate for circuit clerk, and received
about eleven hundred votes.

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