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Note: Her gravestone is cut born "15 June 1842", but has no death date. ***
HISTORY OF MARSHALL COUNTY, IOWA by Mrs. N. Sanford (1867) mentions Delos Arnold, brother of Mary (Arnold) Holmes.
p. 39: "Mr. Delos Arnold taught the first school in the old court house, and his neighbors remember the epoch by his writing letters for the Eastern papers in the rookery."
p. 63: "HON. D. L. ARNOLD, "Late revenue assessor of the sixth congressional district, is one of these, and made an excellent officer for the Government. Probabl}^ he would have the portfolio yet, had not Andy "swung the circle," and sent the voluminous papers to the care of another worthy officer, his successor. Gen. T. H. Benton. Mr. Arnold is wealthy, yet kind to the needy, and has an unspotted reputation as a Christian gentleman."
From a History of Marshall County, Iowa, by the Western Historical Company (1876), p.546:
"ARNOLD, DELOS, bom in Chenango Co., N. Y., July 21, 1830; received his education in that State, and was a graduate of the Law Department of the Albany State University, in the Spring of 1853, and came to Iowa in the Fall of the same year ; the day following his arrival in Marshall Co., he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney, he being the only attorney in the county at that time; he held that ofiice four years ; after practicing his profession seven or eight years, he was obliged to give it up on account of his health. Was elected to the State Legislature in 1856, and again in 1869; was elected to the State Senate in 1874, and still fills that position [in 1876]; he was appointed by President Lincoln the first Assessor of Internal Revenue of the Sixth District, embracing about one-third of the area of the State, and held the office four years and was removed by Andrew Johnson, for political reasons, and was succeeded by Hon. Thos. H. Benton. Mr. Arnold had nothing when he came here, and few citizens of this State have been more successful. Married Miss Hannah R. Mercer Nov. 28, 1855, at Marietta ; she was of the Order of Friends, and was from Columbiana Co., Ohio ; they have three children—Theresa, Delos, Jr., and Ralph ; they have lost three children in infancy."
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