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WILLIAM ARNOLD, a representative citizen and prosperous business man of Bruin, Butler County, Penna., has been for many years engaged as an oil producer and is at the present time one of the directors of the First National
Bank of that borough. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, March 9, 1852, and is a son of James and Ann (Fisher) Arnold, both natives of England.
William Arnold was reared in Lincolnshire until his fifteenth year, then went to London and lived for nearly three years. At the age of eighteen, he took passage at Liverpool and after a voyage of fourteen days landed at Boston, Massachusetts. He immediately after went west
to Buffalo, New York, where he worked for one year, then moved to Venango County, Penna. There he was engaged several years in the oil fields, but in the spring of 1875 returned to England. He spent the summer in his native land and in the fall of the same year again sailed
for America. He came to what then was Martinsburg, now Bruin, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he has since lived and met with deserved business success. He takes a deep interest in all questions relating to the development of the borough and its institutions, being
especially favorable to measures calculated to improve the public school system.
In July, 1877, Mr. Arnold was united in marriage with Miss Susan Zuver, who was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of George E. Zuver, who still lives in that county and has passed his eighty-ninth birthday anniversary. Of the five children born to them,
two survive, namely: William P. of Bruin, and Lotta Lenore. Religiously, Mr. Arnold and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church at Bruin, of which he served as trustee a number of years. Politically, he is a Republican. William P. Arnold married Roxie Rickenbrode
and they have one child, Dorothy Queen.
Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 1195.
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