Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
RNOLD,
RAWDON, M. D., of Marysville, Cal., was born July 4th, 1836, in the
village of Romeo, Mich. He comes of good old Puritan stock, and his
parents -on both his father’s and mother’s side- were New England
people, who traced their descent back to the very early times. He was
educated at Annada High School and Michigan Normal School, and
afterwards received his medical instruction at the Missouri Medical
College at St. Louis. He graduated at this college in 1857, just as he
became of age, and at once commenced practice in the State of Missouri.
He continued here until 1864, when he embraced homœopathy, his mind
having gradually been imbued with the principles of reform. He is now in
his ninth year as a homœopathic physician, and has never seen reason to
regret the change. He removed to California in September, 1871, and
settled in Marysville, cohere he has succeeded in a marked degree. There
was a good opening in the Golden State at that time for homœopathy (as
indeed there still is), and Dr. Arnold seemed to step into a place that
had long been waiting for him.He has been married
twice, -in 1859 and again in 1870,- the last time to a daughter of
Charles Ferguson, Esq., of Mexico, Mo. Dr. Arnold is prominent among
people of the Swedenborgian faith. Homœopathy numbers many of its
leading professors in this faith, but of them all no one is more
esteemed than Dr. Arnold. He is a leader in his section no less
religiously than professionally. Residing in Missouri at the breaking
out of the late civil war, he was robbed of all his property (some
$30,000 in amount), and he and his wife left to -begin the world again
with absolutely but twenty-five cents. He at once gave in his adherence
to the government, and followed the varying fortunes of the Army of the
West, until the close of the war, which found him in Louisiana, where he
remained a few months to recruit his health in its genial climate.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave