Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Arnoldy, Henrie July 7, 1846 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  HENRIE ARNOLDY, the well known East Main street hotel 
proprietor, is the son of Henrie Arnoldy, a farmer in 
France. He was born in that country, July 7, 1846. He was 
educated there in the excellent schools that have been 
established in the course of a century past. On reaching the 
age of twenty years, he was mustered into the French army, 
the Emperor Napoleon Third being then the dictator of 
France. He served in the Franco-Prussian war, was twice 
wounded, and conducted himself in all the engagements in 
which he participated with the greatest courage and daring.
 
  In the fall of 1871 he decided that he would leave his 
native land and emigrate to the United States, as he had 
been informed of the probability that he could do well in 
the great Western Republic, and succeed in life. He left 
France and landed at Liverpool, with four other young men, 
bound like himself for America. They sailed from Liverpool 
in the ship "Algeria," and landed in New York. He then 
traveled to Philadelphia, and later to Norristown. He 
secured employment in Whitman's butcher shop, in Bridgeport. 
He remained in that position until Mr. Whitman's death, when 
he assumed the management of the business, carrying it on 
very successfully. 

  He next went to the Exchange Hotel, Norristown, one of the 
leading taverns of Norristown, in those days, drove a team 
and later took charge of the yard. He saved his earnings, 
with the expectation that he would be able at some time to 
engage in business on his own account.

  He next went to Conshohocken where he secured employment 
in the Albion Print Works, remaining there until 1876, when 
he removed to Philadelphia and was employed by Mr. Philip 
Loubee, the leading caterer of Philadelphia at that time. He 
remained in that city during the Centennial Exposition, 
which was then in progress. Returning to Norristown he took 
charge of a hotel on the Bridgeport side of the river. Later 
he went into the livery business, carrying it on very 
successfully. 

  In 1886 he sold his livery stable and bought the hotel 
Schuylkill Valley on Main street, below Walnut, Norristown. 
He is a self-made man, who owes his success in business 
entirely to his own exertions.

  Mr. Arnoldy married, in 1873, Lena Diller, who came from 
Bavaria, Germany, the couple having the following children: 
Lillian, who married Joseph Schuler, a jeweler of 
Norristown, and they are the parents of one child- Ralph 
Schuler, Minnie. Henry, a member of the Invincibles of 
Norristown. William, who is employed as clerk in the 
Atlantic Refining Company at Norristown. Bertie, Helen, and 
Elsie, all living.

  In politics Mr. Arnoldy is an active Republican, and an 
earnest supporter of the principles and candidates of the 
party. He is an active member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men, Foresters of 
America, the Elks, the Shouck Post, No. 91, Grand Army of 
the Republic, of Norristown, with which he has been 
affiliated for fifteen years, and the Royal Art Association. 
He and his family attend the Presbyterian church.

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