Hancock-Athens County OhArchives Biographies.....Arnold, Thomas Wilson 1829 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   THOMAS WILSON ARNOLD, farmer, P. 0. Forest, Hardin County, was born January
24, 1829, in Athens County, Ohio. His parents, Thomas and Rachel Arnold, moved
to Delaware County, Ohio, about 1831 or 1832, where they resided until their
death, an event that left our subject at the age of fifteen years to take care
of himself, and he came the following year to Delaware Township, this county.
Here he lived with William Moore, and afterward purchased a piece of land in
Pleasant Township, this county, and in June, 1851, he married, in Pleasant
Township, Miss Rachel Nicholson, who had been a resident of Wood County, Ohio,
from girlhood. They sold their property in Pleasant Township, and located where
they now reside, in Delaware Township, Hancock County, in 1853, where they have
a farm of 160 acres of land, after having given eighty acres to their sons. The
children of our subject and wife were Mrs. Amelia Reigle, Aaron (killed in 1864,
at the age of twenty years, by falling from a tree), Francis M., Mrs. Eliza
Malone, Stephen A., Rebecca, Thomas W., Mary and Rachel. Mrs. Arnold died in
September, 1870, and in 1873 Mr. Arnold married, for his second wife, Mrs. Sarah
A. Martin; they have one son, William Alton. Mr. Arnold, formerly a Whig, has
been a Republican in politics ever since the organization of the party. He is an
enterprising and successful farmer, and one of the leading citizens of Delaware
Township. In August, 1862, in response to the President's call for 600,000
troops, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
which regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and took part in many
of the battles of the campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. He received
an honorable discharge from the service in August, 1864, on account of
disabilities. His record in the army is that of a brave and faithful soldier,
who was always ready for the discharge of his duty.

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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Delaware Township




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