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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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John J. Arnold, one of the prominent farmers of Goshen Township, was born in North Carolina about 1833, and is the son of John and Sallie (Murray) Arnold, both natives of Virginia. They moved to North Carolina after marrying, and from that State to Cass County, Ga., making their home there six years. Later they went to Alabama, where the father died, in Benton County, of that State, in the spring of 1849. The mother afterward moved to Pulaski County, Ark., and still later to Washington County, where she died August 26, 1874. Mr. Arnold was a farmer, and had followed this occupation all his life. Their son, John J. Arnold, went to Phillips County, Ark., where he remained nine months, and from there went to Conway County, of the same State, but after a residence there of about eight or nine years he moved to Pulaski County, and in 1871 moved to Washington County, where he purchased his present farm, which consists of 170 acres, nearly eighty under cultivation. Mr. Arnold is a black­smith, wagon-maker, carpenter and mill-wright by trade, but his principal occupation during life has been farming. He was married July 12, 1859, to Miss Ann Davenport, a native of New York. To them were born five children: George E., deceased: Christopher C., deceased; Josephine, wife of A. L. Nelson; Ella, wife of James Tunstill, and John N., at home. During the late unpleasantness between the North and South, Mr. Arnold served a short time in the Confederate army. He is a conservative Democrat in his political views, has been a successful farmer, and is an honorable, straightforward citizen. Mrs. Arnold is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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