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WILLIAM C. ARNER, who carries on general farming on his valuable estate of fifty acres, which is situated three miles southwest of the village of Hilliards, in Washington Township, also carries on a very successful
photographic business, for which he has fine, modern equipments. Mr. Arner was born in Washington Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1869, and is a son of George and Ermina (Campbell) Arner.
George Arner was a son of Tobias and Catherine (Daubenspeck) Arner, of Parker Township, Butler County. They had the following children: Mary, who married John Day, of Clay Township; Betsey, who married Andrew Kelly, of Warren County; Philip, deceased; David, who married
Eliza McCandless, daughter of Mark McCandess, of Cherry Township; George; Anna, who married James Grant, of Washington Township; and Christina, who married Thomas Troutman. For several years George Arner conducted the Wick House.
William C. Arner obtained a public school education in Washington Township and then engaged in farming. His fifty acres are all under cultivation and the land responds readily to the care given it. Mr. Arner may also realize a fortune from coal, as there have been found
four veins of this valuable substance underlying his fields. Mr. Arner is a good fanner, but he has other interests, having developed a very profitable enterprise in the line of photography. He learned the photograph business after he had finished school and after his
marriage instructed his wife and together they turn out a large amount of beautiful and artistic work. Mr. Arner worked in studios at Butler and at Findlay, Ohio, and is thoroughly competent. He has about $300 invested in cameras and other necessary equipments and his work compares favorably with that done in a city studio.
In 1894 Mr. Arner was married to Amelia Cooper, who is a daughter of Stephien and Henrietta Seaton, and a granddaughter of William Seaton, of Venango Township, Butler County. The late Stephen Cooper was born in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, and was taken to
Indiana while young, but later returned to Butler County. He enlisted in 1861, for three months' service in the Civil War, as a member of the Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was captured on one occasion by the enemy, but fortunately escaped
before the prison was reached. He returned to his home and resumed farming. Mr. and Mrs. Arner have the following children: Lee Carl, Dale D., Hazel H. and Gladys E., all bright students in the public school; and an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Arner are members of the English
Lutheran Church at Annandal. In politics, Mr. Arner is identified with the Republican party.
Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 1411-1412.
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