History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887



Frank M. Arnold Biography

Frank M. Arnold was born in the village of Reidsburg, Clarion county, Pa., on the 14th day of October, 1847. In March, 1848, with his parents, he moved to the borough of Clarion, Pa., the county seat, and has resided there ever since.

In July, 1865 he became teller in the First National Bank of Clarion, and is at present acting as assistant cashier in the same bank, making nearly twenty-two years in the banking business.

In 1869 he was commissioned by Governor Geary as notary public, and was recommissioned in 1872, and has held the same position during the administrations of Governors Hartranft and Hoyt, continuously until 1884. He was elected the first president of the Clarion Fish and Game Association in and has held the position to the present time. He has been engaged in the lumber business in the firm of Leeper, Arnold & Co., and he has been very successful. He is also one of the firm of C. Leeper & Co., which is a lumbering firm, and has over forty million feet of pine timber.

Mr., Arnold by his industry and business sagacity has acquired a handsome competence, and is now one of the substantial and enterprising citizens of Clarion. He is liberal in his gifts to worthy charitable institutions, and his beautiful homestead attests his taste, which his ample means enables him to gratify.

He has a family of five interesting children : Frank M., George E., Turner S., Alvin F., and Clara.


Source: History of Clarion County; Davis, A. J.; Syracuse, NY; D. Mason and Co., 1887.












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