Washington County NeArchives Biographies.....Arndt, Frederick William 1862 - 
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Frederick William Arndt

Frederick .William Arndt, merchant and executive, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 4, 1862, son of Bernard and Dorretta (Albrecht) Arndt. Bernard Arndt, born
in Hamburg, Germany, April 13, 1826, was a cigar manufacturer, who served as a
sergeant in the Ohio National Guard. He died at West Point, Nebraska, December
5, 1919. His wife, Dorretta, was born in Bremen, Germany, March 15, 1829, and
died at Blair, in 1911.

Graduated from elementary schools in Cincinnati, Mr. Arndt attended Blair High
School, and was advanced in May, 1877. Pie has been a resident of Nebraska sixty
years, during which time he has engaged as a hardware merchant, automobile
dealer and oil distributor. He is president of the Arndt-Snyder Motor Company,
vice president of the Blair Building and Loan Association, and treasurer of the
N-I Oil Company. He is vice president of the Nebraska Hardware Mutual Insurance
Company, treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Nebraska
Hardware Association and the Chamber of Commerce.

On April 8, 1886, he was married to Sophia Estelle Riddler at Blair. She was
born at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, of Scotch and English descent, and died at
Blair, January 9, 1922. There were three children born to this marriage, Wilfred
B., born April 12, 1887, who is an automobile salesman: Mary Josephine, born
January 9, 1888, and who is an artist; and Dorrette May, born January 10, 1891,
who is a singer and pianist.

Mr. Arndt is a Republican a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The
Nebraskana Society. He is a member of the Blair Golf Club.

On February 6, 1924, Mr. Arndt was married to Annie Vio Gates at Grand Island,
Nebraska. She is a newspaper woman, member of the state senatorial committee,
vice chairman of the Washington County central committee 1931, member of the
Eastern Star for the past twenty years.

Mr. Arndt is a member of the Masons, Royal Arch Masons, and Knights Templar.
Residence: Blair.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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