Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WYLO J. ARNOLD

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Marysville has long been noted for its enterprising and highly 
progressive commercial establishments, such as that of the J. C. Penney Company, 
one of the city�s leading mercantile firms, whose capable local manager is Wylo 
J. Arnold, a native of Salt Lake City, where he was born on November 17, 1893.  
His parents were J. W. and Christina (Clark) Arnold, also natives of Utah, where 
they were highly esteemed pioneers.
            Wylo J. Arnold attended the Utah schools, and in 1912 entered the 
service of the J. C. Penney Company at Murray, Utah, later continuing in their 
service at Chehalis, Wash.; Preston, Idaho; and Chico, Cal., successively.  
Having made good with an exceptional record in each of these various branches of 
the flourishing company, he was appointed, in 1920, manager of the Marysville 
store.  Mr. Arnold has always been a student of human nature, and also had come 
to have a fair acquaintance with Californian life and ways; and having, from the 
beginning, sought to identify himself with the Marysville community, he found it 
easy to command the hearty cooperation of the townspeople here, and to build up 
a growing and dependable patronage for his firm.  The J. C. Penney Company is 
today one of the acknowledged pillars in the business life of Marysville, and 
Mr. Arnold has become one of the untiring workers for the permanent progress of 
both town and county.
            At Preston, Idaho, in 1916, Mr. Arnold was married to Miss Angeline 
Porter, a native of Idaho; and their union has been blessed with the birth of 
two children, Max and Dot.  Fraternally, Mr. Arnold is a member of Chico Lodge 
No. 111, F. & A.M., and Marysville Pyramid No. 23, A.E.O. Sciots; and with his 
wife is a member of Marysville Chapter No. 55, O.E.S.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 921