Lancaster County NeArchives Biographies.....Arnold, Charles Harrison 1888 - 
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Charles Harrison Arnold

Charles Harrison Arnold, physician and surgeon, was born near Dorchester,
Nebraska, October 18, 1888, of Henry and Ann Elizabeth (Gifford) Arnold. His
father, a native of Collamer, Indiana, born January 26, 1845, was a farmer in
that state, and settled near Dorchester, Nebraska, in 1885. He was a member of
the Christian Church, and a Republican. His death occurred at Dorchester, March
17, 1921. His wife, Ann Elizabeth, was born in Michigan, May 21, 1850, and died
at Lincoln, June 5, 1925. She was a teacher in the Indiana public schools, and a
member of the Christian Church. Her ancestry was English, French and Scotch.

Educated first in the country schools near Dorchester Dr. Arnold was graduated
from Dorchester High School in 1908. During the year 1908 he attended Lincoln
Business College, and in 1909 attended Cotner University In 1913 he received his
M.D. from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery.

His first marriage was to Irma Carlotta Sears at Chicago, January 20, 1912. Mrs.
Arnold was born at Aurora, Nebraska, September 12, 1887, and died at Lincoln,
March 19, 1926. She was a graduate and registered nurse of Scotch descent. There
are two children, Hubert Andrew, born November 15, 1912, who is a junior at the
University of Nebraska; and Faith Elizabeth, born September 4, 1914, who is a
junior in Lincoln High School.

Dr. Arnold married Mrs. Winifred Owen McCoy of Lincoln, at Colorado Springs,
June 11, 1928. A life resident of Nebraska, Dr. Arnold has lived in Lincoln
since 1913, when he began the practice of medicine there. For the past seven
years he has confined his work to surgery. He is chief surgeon to the Dr.
Benjamin F. Bailey Sanitorium, attending surgeon to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital,
and associate surgeon to Bryan Memorial Hospital. He is a lecturer on surgery to
the Bailey Training School for Nurses, also.

In April, 1917, he entered the army and was commissioned first lieutenant in the
Medical Corps. He was in service July, 1917, and attached to the Royal Army
Medical Corps of England with which he saw service in Flanders and on the Somme;
he was at the front for eight months, and was wounded in action June 1, 1918.
Promoted to the rank of captain, he engaged in surgery at Base Hospital No. 3
LeTreport, France, until February, 1919 He received his honorable discharge at
Camp Dix, New Jersey, in February, 1919, and now holds the rank of major in the
Medical Reserves. He is a member the Reserve Officers Association, the American
Legion, and member and past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

A director of the Red Cross, he is past president and present director of the
Lincoln Automobile Club and director of the American Automobile Association.
During 1926-28 he was president of the Cosmopolitan Club. A member of the Hiram
Club, he is president of the Interprofessional Club of Lincoln, a member of the
Young Men’s Christian Association, the Nebraska State Historical Society, the
Nebraskana Society, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. His professional
memberships include the American, Nebraska State and Lancaster County Medical
Associations, and the Military Surgeons Association. He is a Mason, and past
commander of the Knights Templar, past high priest and member of the Shrine,
32nd degree member of Scottish Rite, and a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America and the Knights of Pythias. His religious affiliation is with the First
Christian Church of Lincoln. He belongs to the Lincoln University Club, Shrine
Country and Shrine Golf Clubs. Residence: Lincoln. 


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Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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