From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 212-213.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOSEPH A. ARKLE

Joseph A. Arkle, a member of the city council of Wheeling, and 
justice of the peace, and a well-known citizen, was born in 
Burlington, Belmont county, Ohio, June 28, 1841.  He is the son of 
Robert A. Arkle, a native of England, who came to America in 1833, 
and was married February 7, 1837, to Anastasia Scott, who was born in 
Ireland.  They settled in Wheeling, in 1845, and here the father 
still lives having been in the grocery business for many years, but 
now retired.  He had six children: Mary J. V., wife of John Cook; 
Joseph A.; Anna, wife of Oliver Morris; Robert V., Martha, wife of 
Edward Plues, and Ellen.  Joseph A. Arkle was reared in Wheeling, and 
received his education in public and private schools of the city.  On 
March 2, 1863, he enlisted in Company I, Third United States cavalry, 
and remained in active service during the war in the Fifteenth, 
Sixteenth and Seventh army corps.  After the war, serving in New 
Mexico, he was wounded in the shoulder July 9, 1867, in an engagement 
with the Navajoe Indians, near Ft. Sumner, N. M.  After his discharge 
March 2, 1867, he returned to Wheeling and embarked in the grocery 
business in 1877, in which he is still engaged.  In 1887 he also 
became identified with the pension and real estate business, in which 
he is prominent.  Mr. Arkle is a leading member, of the G. A. R., and 
at present is commander of post No. 53, Of Wheeling.  On September 
19, 1869, at Parkersburg., W. Va., Mr. Arkle was married to Mary E., 
daughter of William and Anna (Heck) Hawkins, of Marion county, W. 
Va., and by this union has six children living: Mary, wife of John 
Monahan; Ellen, Albert, Rose, Regina and John.  He and family are 
members of the Catholic church, of the Immaculate Conception in the 
Eighth ward, of which he has been financial secretary and treasurer 
constantly since January, 1879. 


(Linda Fluharty)