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GEORGE F. ARNEY, M. D., a graduate of Jefferson Medical college and a 
successful physician of Altoona, is a son of Jacob and Rachel (Meyer) 
Arney, and was born in Centre Hall, Potter township, Centre county, 
Pennsylvania, March 11, 1853.  His father, Jacob Arney, was born at 
Hummelstown, Dauphin county, this State, in 1808, and died at Centre 
Hall, Potter township, Centre county, in 1887, aged seventy-nine years.  
When but a boy he went into Centre county, where he was engaged in 
farming during the active part of his life.  He was a democrat in 
politics and a member of the Reformed church.  At the time when Mr. 
Arney commenced life for himself in Centre county he did not have the 
advantages possessed by farmers of to-day, and had to cut and store his 
harvests by hand, as farm machinery was almost unknown at that day.  He 
married Rachel Meyers, and to them were born a family of twelve 
children, six sons and six daughters:  John, who is a farmer by 
occupation, resides in his native township; Benjamin, also a farmer and 
a resident of Potter township, Centre county; Rev. W. James, a minister 
of the Presbyterian church, who is a graduate of a well known college of 
the United States, and now resides at Kane, McKean county, where he has 
charge of the Presbyterian church of that place; Dr. George F., the 
subject of this sketch; Charles, a farmer like his brothers, John and 
Benjamin, and also a resident of Potter township, Centre county; Frank, 
who learned painting and follows that trade in his native township; 
Sarah, residing at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is the wife of Henry Dasher, 
now the general agent for the old and well known McCormick Reaper 
Manufacturing Company; Minnie, who married Moses Richards, a carpenter 
of Potter township, where they reside; Lydia, wife of Conrad Peck, a 
wagon and carriage manufacturer by trade, and a resident at the present 
time of Lincoln county, Kansas; Mary, married James Herring, who is now 
engaged in the general mercantile business in Altoona; Laura, wife of 
John Lee, a carriage manufacturer of Centre Hall village; and Lizzie, 
married to John Mullen, of Renova, Pennsylvania, where he is engaged in 
the shoe business. George F. Arney spent his boyhood days at Centre 
Hall, and received his literary education in the normal schools of 
Pennsylvania.  He read medicine with Dr. Neff, of Centre Hall, and Dr. 
C. F. Fisher, of Boaldsburg [sic], this State, and entered Jefferson 
Medical college, of Philadelphia, from which well known institution he 
was graduated in 1878.  Immediately after graduation he opened an office 
at Homer City, the largest town on the Indiana Branch railroad between 
Blairsville Intersection and Indiana, the county seat of Indiana county. 
 He remained there one year, and then, in 1879, came to Altoona, where 
he soon built up and has enjoyed a good practice ever since. While a 
general practitioner, yet he makes a specialty of the eye and has had 
good success in that special line of practice. In June, 1881, Dr. Arney 
married Lucy Boggs, of Altoona, and they have one child, a son, named 
Ralph, who was born in June, 1882. Dr. Arney is rather independent in 
politics, and has been for several years a member of Christ Reformed 
church, of Altoona, which was organized in 1863.  For the last four 
years he has been one of five physicians composing the staff of the 
Altoona hospital, and is recognized as a physician of ability and skill. 
Transcribed and submitted to the Blair County, PA, USGenWeb archives by 
Lyn Frieda  areume@hotmail.com