Harrison Arms
{{Short description|American businessman (1839–1917)}}
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| birth_name = Harrison H. Arms
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| birth_place = Adams, Jefferson County, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1917|7|5|1839|8|3}}
| death_place = near Marshall, Michigan, U.S.
| resting_place = Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
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Harrison H. Arms (August 3, 1839 – July 5, 1917) was a Toledo, Ohio livery and stable operator who, in 1885, formed the Arms Palace Horse Car Company for the purpose of transporting racehorses and other high-value animals by rail in a specialized type of "horse car" of his own design.{{citation needed |date=February 2024 |reason=detail on when he fon=und}}
Early life
Harrison H. Arms{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lexington-herald-harrison-arms-dies/141752195/ |title=Harrison Arms Dies |date=1917-07-06 |newspaper=The Lexington Herald |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-02-21}}{{Open access}} was born on August 3, 1839, in Adams, Jefferson County, New York.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-arms-6-jul-1917-chicag/141751277/ |title=Arms|date=1917-07-06 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-02-21}}{{Open access}}
Career
Arms was the founder of the Arms Palace Horse Car Company. He had offices in Chicago and had a stock farm in Marshall, Michigan.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/monrovia-daily-news-millionaire-monrovia/141750851/ |title=Millionaire Monrovian is Dead in East |date=1917-07-05 |newspaper=Monrovia Daily News |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-02-20}}{{Open access}}
Arms was a stockholder and director of the Monrovia First National Bank and the Southern Counties Gas Company. He also built the first cheese factory in New York.
Personal life
Arms married Lucy R. He moved to Monrovia, California, around 1907 and built a home at 215 Highland Avenue.
Arms died on July 5, 1917, at his country estate near Marshall, Michigan. He was cremated and interred in Toledo, Ohio.
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Category:19th-century American businesspeople
Category:American people in rail transportation
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