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TENDICK, ARNOLD, boots and shoes, Sec. 33, P.O. Rockbridge, was born in Rhine Province, Sept. 26, 1847, is the third of a family of seven children born of Peter and Margaret Tendick; her family name was Brookhouse. At the age of fifteen, he went to work on a farm for one year; was then apprenticed to learn the shoemaker’s trade, at which he continued for three years. After he completed his trade, he went into the Prussian army, cavalry department; was in the service two years and a half. After his return home, he went to work at his trade, doing journey work the most of the time, until the Spring of 1870, when he emigrated to this country. Sailed on the Weiser, of the Bremen line; term of voyage fifteen days. Came to Jacksonville, Ill., where he worked for his uncle, Godfrey Tendick, of that place, for one year; then went to St. Louis, where he remained six months; then to Pittsfield, Pike County, where he engaged in, business for himself, remaining there until July, 1875; then removed to Rockbridge and engaged in business; manufactures and keeps on hand ready made goods in his line, and is doing a good business; was married Aug. 12, 1874, to Elizabeth Jacobi, sister of Phillip Jacobi. She was born April 14, 1854. They have had three children, Anna M., born Sept. 14, 1875; Mattie Lou, born Feb. 18, 1877.