The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-09
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lying in the bend west ana south OF
Captain Ewing's place. His sturdy
uprightness and the force of his char
acter made him q leader in tho crude
society of that early day, and he was
one who was always called in when q
"squatter's court" was organized and
when the verdict of the jury was put
into immediate effect by the force of
public opinion and without the for
maIity of record. When these primi-
tive modes of dispensing justice were
superseded by more regular forms, he
was chosen as a member of the first
grand jury that ever sat in Allen
county.
When the war came on Mr.. Arnold
"saddled his horse and rode away
And fit for the Union
as high private i'm the 9th Kansas
Cavalry regiment in which a
whole troop of good fellows in and
about lola saw service. For the en-
tire four years of his enlistment, young
Arnold did a soldiers whole duty
with the rare good fortune of making
no hospital record. Along i'm 1868 he
was detached, with part of his regi-
ment to join an expedition that was
sent across the plains to quiet the In
dams and to relieve Gen. Candy, in
New Mexico. Returning from this
campaign i'm time to share i'm the inef-
fectual chase after Quantrell and his
gang of cutthroats. who had burned
Lawrence, and massacred its defense
less people, he went south with his
regiment, and spent the last winter of
his enlistment wading swamps, pros
pecting cane brakes, absorbing ma
laria aud otherwise entertaining him.
self and the Rebels. During all this
time he had advanced steadily by
succeeding promotions SO that it was
as Capt. Arnold, Company l., that he
was finally mustered out, among the
last of the Regiment, in August 1865.
Returning home he served for about
a year as deputy sheriff under Capt.
Coleman, after which, In partnership
with w. +. Brooks, afterwards his
brother-in-law, he bought the farm
now owned by A. J. Monfort, In Elm
township. A few years later he
bought what is now known as the
English farm, north of LaHarpe,
where he lived until 1878 when he re-
moved te lola which has since been
his home.
In 1879, in company with George
Inge, s. J. Cowan and one or two
others, he wsnt to Colorado and open
ed up a silver mine. The prospect
was very promising for awhile and
the company spent about s years, sew
eral thousand dollars, and no end of
hard work-only to abandon it all as
"no good" at last.
In politics Judge Arnold has al
ways been a prominent figure, not by
his own seeking SO much as by the in
sistence of his friends. He served
two terms as county commissioner,
hack in the sixties, two terms as rep
resentative In the Legislature,-1S77-
S-9-and is now serving his fourth
consecutive term in the office of Pro-
bate Judge.
Judge Arnold was married in 1867
to Miss Mary s. Cozine, establishing
then and ever since maintaining q
harmonious and happy home, into
which have come six children, five of
whom are yet living.
AS one of the pioneers of Allen
county, as q soldier without fear and
without reproach," as useful, pub
lic-spirited citizen, as an official of
perfect integrity and wise counsel,
there is probably no man in the coun-
ty who commands greater respect or
warmer admiration than does James
Lawrence Arnold.