MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: FENNER, Arnold C. (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio" by W.H. Beers & Co.  1882


Arnold C. Fenner, manufacturer, Dayton, was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1826.
He is the son of Augustus Fenner.  He woked on a farm until after his majority,
except at intervals, when he attended school and college.  He began teaching
school in the fall of 1848, at the Ludlow Street Schoolhouse in Dayton.  He 
taught at the Perry Street Schoolhouse in 1851, and in 1852 was engaged at Troy,
Ohio, from where he returned to Datyon in 1853, and took the Principal's 
position in the Eastern District, since known as the Turner Hall School.  Here
he continued until the school removed to Fifth street in the fall of 1862, 
when he assisted in organizing a company for the One Hundred and Twelfth 
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infanty, which was afterward consolidated with the 
Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  From the time of the consolidation he
served in the Army of the Tennessee.  He was Acting Adjutant of the Sixty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during much of 1863, and Assistant Adjutant General on
the staff of Gen. J.W. Sprague, commanding the brigade during the Atlanta
campaign. He subsequently took command of a company and participated in all
the marches of the Seventeenth Army Corps through Savannah, Columbia, Fayette-
ville, Goldboro, Raleigh, Petersburg, Richmond and Washington, up to the 
muster-out at Louisville. In the fall of 1865, he was given the principalship
of Ludlow Street School which he retained until February, 1867, having on the
previous January entered into a partnership with S. T. Cotterill in the 
tobacco-cutting business, in which he has continued up to the present time.
Theirs is the North Star brand of fine-cut tobacco, which is known by
tobacco users all over the United States.

 
Submitted by Tina Hursh <frog158@juno.com>