Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

LEWIS P. ARNOLD is a native of Warren County, where he now resides, and 
was born October 3, 1825.  His father, Willis Arnold, was born in 1794, 
in Culpeper County, Va. He married a Miss Elizabeth Potter, a native of 
Virginia.  She died in 1857, aged sixty-five years.  She left seven sons 
and five daughters:  John, William, George, Lewis, James, Elijah, Moses, 
Nancy, Polly, Frances, Martha and Elizabeth.  Willis Arnold as a farmer.  
In his earlier days he was a soldier and served in the wars against the 
French and Indians on the Canadian border.  He was a son of Benjamin 
Arnold, who was of Swiss parentage.  But little is remembered of him by 
his descendants, further than he was through life a quiet and unassuming 
farmer, and died in his native State - Virginia. Lewis P. Arnold 
remained with his parents until he attained the age of twenty years; he 
then entered the United States Army as a volunteer, and served for a 
time in the Mexican war; assisted in the storming of Vera Cruz, and was 
also in the engagement at the famous Cerro Gordo pass, where he received 
a wound which disabled him for the United States service.  He was soon 
discharged and returned to his home in Kentucky, where, on the 10th of 
February, 1848, he married Miss Julia A., a daughter of James Hendricks, 
of Warren County.  She died October 26, 1881, leaving three children:  
America F., Lowring and Luther.  After his marriage Mr. Arnold purchased 
100 acres of land and engaged in farming, which he continued until 1861.  
In October, of that year, he, for the second time, joined the United 
States Army; was a member of Company A, of the Eleventh Kentucky 
Volunteer Infantry, and for two years held the commission of chaplain of 
the regiment.  He afterward, for one year, held the commission of 
lieutenant in Company I, of the Fifty-second Mounted Infantry.  Upon his 
being discharged from the army he returned to Kentucky, and again 
engaged in agricultural pursuits.  Mr. Arnold has been successfull; his 
farm of 200 acres is well kept and improved and very productive; he 
raises some good stock, but is principally engaged in the culture of 
grain and tobacco.  As a minister of the gospel Brother Arnold has not 
ceased to labor in the vineyard of his Master, and the flourishing 
little communities of Mount Zion, Mount Pleasant, New Hope and Bethlehem 
attest the efficacy of his zeal.  He is a member of the K. of H., and is 
also a Master Mason in Bowling Green Lodge, No. 273.  Politically he is 
a liberal Republican.

Arnold Hendricks Potter
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Canada Culpeper-VA

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