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JAMES NEWTON ARENDALL James Newton Arendall. The thriving little community of Sugar Grove, in the northwestern part of Miami county, has as one of its chief business industries a flour mill and grain elevator, conducted by the firm of Arendall & Kindell. James Newton Arendall, of this firm, has been a miller practically all of his life and his active connection with the business dates back to the time of his boyhood. He was born in Halifax county, Virginia, July 11, 1877, a son of John A. and Alice M. (Cole) Arendall. John A. Arendall was a practical miller, who followed his business in the east for many years, and under his tutelage the son familiarized himself with every detail of the business, in the meantime acquiring his literary training in the public schools. He remained a resident of Virginia, where the rest of his parents' eight children still reside, until 1901, in which year he came to Ohio. After being variously employed for two years, in 1903 he located permanently at Sugar Grove, where he formed a partnership with Mr. Kindell, as a miller and dealer in grain, and they now have a prosperous mill and elevator in Miami county and have built up a large and flourishing business. Mr. Arendall's standing in business circles is that of a man of integrity and high principles and as a citizen he has been public-spirited. During the war period he contributed cheerfully to every fund for worthy movements. Mr. Arendall married Nora, daughter of John Helmick, of Pleasant Hill, and to this union there, have been born two sons: James Emerson, who met his death in a railroad accident at Sugar Grove in1917, and John Raymond, who is attending school and is in the eighth grade. Return to the Biography Index Copyright © 2000 by Computerized Heritage
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