Randolph County, West Virginia Biography of WILLIAM ADOLPH ARNOLD This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 557-558 Randolph WILLIAM ADOLPH ARNOLD came to Elkins in 1905, and for half a dozen years was a clerk and stenographer in the law offices of a prominent railroad attorney. He was admitted to the bar, and for the past ten years has been a very busy lawyer and has associated himself with all the organized movements for the growth and progress of Elkins. He was born December 25, 1886, at Martin's Perry, Ohio, just across the river from Wheeling, son of John B. and Emily (Evans) Arnold. His grandfather, Marcus Arnold, was a native of Germany. John B. Arnold was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1861, but has spent practically all his life in Ohio, where he has been connected with a steel industry as a foreman and superintendent of plants. Emily Evans was born in England, and was twenty-one years of age when her father, William Evans, brought his family to America. William Evans located at Martin's Perry, Ohio, and was instrumental in founding the Aetna Standard Steel Mills in that city. John B. Arnold and wife are now retired and live at 432 North Boulevard in Fire- stone Park at Akron, Ohio. The oldest of their children is John Marcus Arnold, a steel mill foreman at Woodlawn, Pennsylvania. William A. Arnold is the second in age. Albert Henry Arnold, an electrician living at Akron, volun- teered in the regular army with the Fifth Signal Battalion, Third Division, became a sergeant, and while overseas par- ticipated in the battle of Chateau Thierry, the Marne and Saint Mehiel campaigns, and in the battle of the Argonne was severely and permanently wounded in his right arm and shoulder. The daughter, Eleanor B. Arnold, married Philip Moewe, who is original research man in the employ of the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron. William A. Arnold spent his early life at Martin's Ferry in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He acquired a common and high school education, took a course in stenography and typewriting, and in 1905 came to Elkins as clerk and stenographer in the law office of the late C. Wood Dailey. Mr. Dailey was then general counsel for the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh, the Western Maryland and the Coal and Coke Railways. At his death Mr. Dailey was succeeded in this office by E, A. Bowers. Mr. Arnold continued with Mr. Bowers until 1912 as his clerk and law assistant. In the meantime he had diligently pursued the study of law privately and also by a course in the West Virginia Uni- versity. He was admitted to the bar in 1912, and at once took up practice and was associated with Mr. Bowers until 1916. Since then he has handled a general practice and he is also counsel for the Relief Department of the Western Maryland Railway. Before his admission to the bar Mr. Arnold did a large amount of work as a court reporter, and his special ability gave him a large amount of practice in that field. Mr. Arnold, who is unmarried, was a volunteer at the time of the great war. In August, 1917, he entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, and from there was sent to Camp Ethan Allen in Vermont, and later to Camp Gordon, Georgia, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was in the service until December, 1918, when honorably discharged. He is a member of the American Legion Post at Elkins, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.