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Date born: February 28, 1895
- Place: West Point, MS
- died: 1966 May 28 (Cancer) in Chicago IL
- Cremated: Chicago, IL
- Wife: Mary Augusta FREEMAN
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Date born: 1897 August 22
Marriage Date: 1920 Aug 22
Place: Chicago, IL
Died: November 2, 1993
Place: Chicago, IL
Cremated: Chicago, IL
- Remembrances:
- 1902: parents moved to East St. Louis, IL.
- 1912: Arsenius finished Lincoln High School.
- 1916: He moved to Chicago and began a forty-seven year career as an inspector
with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture.
- 1918: June 10, he volunteered for the American Expeditionary Forces and participated as a member of the 365th Regiment,92nd Division in the Argonne-Meuse offensive in France.
- 1919: He returned to the Bureau of Animal Industry and remained until his retirement in 1963 as Inspector-in-Charge.
- Arsenius tutored his own and neighborhood children in algebra, geometry, and
Latin.
- Once a year he and Aunt Willa's husband, Charlie (Covington),
went home to East Louis to hunt.
- He and Charlie were both skilled handicappers of horses.
- Each New Year's, Bert Cooper and Mr. Day, friends from East St. Louis,
would visit, reminisce, and watch the Rose Bowl Game together.
- He watched all sports, sometimes watching one on television
and listening to another on the radio.
- 1962: he went to the University of Illinois in Urbana and saw Carver High school win the state basketball championship
with son, Arsene.
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