Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Arthur, Richard April 6, 1831 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

RICHARD ARTHUR,
one of the proprietors of the well-known and popular livery stable of Duke &
Arthur, of Altoona, is a son of George and Susan (Homer) Arthur, and was born
in Union Township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1831. His paternal
grandfather, John Arthur, was born and reared in England, and came to
Pennsylvania when a young man. He served in the revolutionary war, and died
in Union township, Bedford county, when well advanced in the ninety-fourth
year of his age. He was an old-line whig, a strict Lutheran in religious
belief, and married and reared a family. His son, George Arthur, the father
of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1799, in Cambria county. In early
life he went to Bedford county, from which he removed, in 1851, to Altoona,
this county, where he resided until his death, which occurred in February,
1888, when in the eighty-ninth year of his age. He was a machinist by trade,
and worked for several years for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was a
whig and republican in politics, a member of the German Reformed church, and
married Susan Homer, a native of Cambria county, and a member of the Reformed
church, who died in 1886, at seventy-eight years of age.
      Richard Arthur was reared principally in Bedford county, received his
education in the common schools, and in 1851 came to Altoona, where he
entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as an engine repairer
from October, 1851, to June, 1890, when he formed a partnership with Charles
A. Duke, and engaged in his present livery business.
      In 1853 Mr. Arthur married Catherine E. Hall, daughter of Adolphus
Hall, of Logan township. To their union have been born three children, one
son and two daughters: Florence E., Orlando A., and Mary R.
      The firm of Duke & Arthur have their large livery, feed and sale stable
on Ninth street, between Green and Chestnut avenues. They have one of the
largest and finest livery stables in the city for the accommodation of the
equine race, and keep fine riding and driving horses, first-class buggies and
carriages, and make a specialty of cabs for weddings and funerals. Richard
Arthur is a republican in politics, a member of the Evangelical Lutheran
church, and one of the foremost men in his line of business in the county.

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