Representative Guy P. Arnold View All Years

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Guy P. Arnold

Decatur County

Actively engaged in agricultural pursuits and gained a gratifying measure of success as a farmer. He is now living retired in Garden Grove, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. He has resided in Decatur county for over fifty years, has always taken much interest in local history. Guy P. Arnold accompanied his father to Iowa county, Iowa, in June, 1853, when ten years of age and the following year the family located in Garden Grove township. Our subject attended the public schools of Decatur county and also pursued a high-school course, thus preparing himself for taking an intelligent part in the life of his community. He decided to devote his energies to farming and was very successful as an agriculturist, becoming the owner of several hundred acres of land in Decatur county. He gave considerable attention to stock-raising and owned a valuable herd of high grade shorthorn cattle. In 1875 Mr. Arnold married Miss Elsie Howes, who was born in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was a devoted wife and mother and her demise, which occurred in 1898, was an irreparable loss to her family. To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold were born four children: H. G., a farmer and stockman residing in Garden Grove; Helen, the wife of E. J. Lovett, of Garden Grove; Ethel, who married H. C. Culver, of Garden Grove township; and John Dent, a senior in the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames. Mr. Arnold is an independent democrat and has been quite active in local political circles. His ability and integrity is recognized by his fellow citizens and he represented his district in the twenty-third general assembly of Iowa. Fraternally he holds membership in the Masonic order and in the Knights of Pythias and is popular not only in those organizations but also in the community at large. He is president of the Decatur County Historical Society, which has done so much to preserve the records of the early days of the county, and he has written a number of interesting articles on local history, some of which appear in the historical volume of this work.

House District 6