Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   GEORGE W. ARNOUT, merchant, was born June 1, 1828, in Clarke County,
Ohio.  He is the son of Alexander C. and Mary (Warwick) Arnout, the 
former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of Virginia.  The mother 
died in 1829, at the age of twenty-two; the father died in 1864, at the
age of Sixty-four.  The father was a Mason, a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and in politics, a Republican.
   George W. remained at home on the farm until he was about thirty
years of age.  He was married in November, 1851, to Miss Sarah A. Castle,
of Cass County, Indiana.  After marriage, they moved to New Waverly,
Cass County, Indiana, where he engaged in the mercantile business,
remaining there about four years, then moved to Kentland in 1866, where
he lived ever since, and has been engaged in merchandising, at which
he has been quite successful and has acquired a valuable property.
   These parents have had four children, viz., Carrie D., Schuyler,
Maud J. and Levanche M; Schuyler died in 1863, aged about one year; 
Miss Carrie D. has been a teacher in the county for three years; she
has taught in the Kentland Public Schools the past year, and was
reelected for the coming year before the school closed.
   Both parents are members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a 
Republican, also a member of Damon Lodge, K. of P., No. 72, Kentland.


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