From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago,
J.H. Beers & Co. 1894

" Uriah T. Arnert (son of James Arnert, who died in Hartland township, Huron Co., Ohio) was born March 12, 1806, in Yates county, N. Y. The school and farm
were the tasks of his boyhood, and the farm the work of his youth. In 1827 he married Catherine Townsend, who was born January 13, 1809, in Yates county; N. Y., near the birthplace of her husband. There three children were born to them, as follows: George T., December 24, 1827; Mary E., March 21, 1829, and Henry S., the subject of this sketch. George and Mary, just named, died in their native
county, while Henry S. was brought to Ohio early in 1832 by his parents. The journey from Buffalo to Huron, Ohio, was made on the "Sheldon Thomson," and from Huron to Hartland township, Huron county, they traveled in a wagon drawn by
oxen. Arriving here, Mr. Arnert purchased eighty acres of wild land at twenty shillings per acre. The tract was clothed with heavy timber, and water submerged a large part of the land, but the pioneer went bravely to work, erected a rude cabin, and began the task of clearing. His success was assured from the beginning: a better dwelling house took the place of the cabin, and improvements were carried out until he sold the place and moved to Townsend township. About the year 1860 he located in New London township, where he died in 1863. He was buried in Hartland Ridge cemetery.

The children born in Ohio to Uriah T. and Catherine Arnert are as follows: Sarah C, born April 2, 1833, is the wife of Thaddeus Sprague, of Wakeman township; Phoebe J., born October 12, 1885, is the wife of Birdsall French, of Erie
county, Ohio; Dolly A., born February 10, 1838, married Wilbur Jefferson, and lives in Norwalk; Catherine C, born October 4, 1840, married Edwin Burney, and died in New London; Uriah B., born April 4, 1843, enlisted at the age of nineteen years, serving with Company B, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, until his death in Tennessee, in 1862; Cyrus D., born August 23, 1845, is now residing at
Birmingham, Ohio; and Frank, born February 12, 1852, died in 1860. Mr. Arnert was a Whig prior to the organization of the Republican party, of which he then became a member. In Church connection he was a Methodist. His success in Ohio
was a decided one, so that, at his death, he left to his family a valuable property. His widow married Henry Runyan, and now resides at New London."
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