History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, 
from U. S. Gov't Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches
Dessureau. Antigo, WI: Berner Brothers, 1922, p 334 [with portrait p 334]
Submitted by Cathy Kubly

A. M. ARVESON, former county superintendent of Langlade County [Wisconsin] schools, former city clerk, and a well known insurance man, was born 14 February 1874 in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin.  Here he attended the rural schools.  He later entered the Oshkosh State Normal [Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin].  Mr. ARVESON came to Antigo [Langlade County, Wisconsin] in March 1893, and began teaching in the Sunnyside School, Rolling Township, a short distance from Antigo.  For five years he followed his profession in the rural schools of the county and then taught five years in the city schools as principal of the Sixth Ward.  During this period he attended summer school at Oshkosh Normal and the University of Wisconsin.  He was elected City Clerk of Antigo in 1902 and re-elected in 1904, serving with credit in that capacity.  In the fall of 1902 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Langlade County, in which capacity he served for seventeen consecutive years, a longer period than any other county superintendent.  He retired from the office in 1919 to engage in the life insurance business, in which he is now associated with G. F. CRANDALL, with offices on Fifth Avenue, Antigo, Wisconsin.

Mr. [A. M.] ARVESON was united in marriage 11 September 1901 to Louise Belle HENSHAW, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. HENSHAW.  To the union of A. M. and Louise Belle (HENSHAW) ARVESON were born the following children:  Maurice H., Elliott R., Holly, Arthur, and Beth.  Mrs. A. M. ARVESON [Louise Belle (HENSHAW) ARVESON] died in the prime of life on 18 October 1920.

A. M. ARVESON has been active in state fraternal affairs and in 1918 was Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  During the [first] World War he served on important county committees to further the Victory Fund and Liberty Loan campaigns.  The family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.