Necrology 
THOMAS E. ARNOLD 
Thomas E. Arnold was born in Gar¬ 
rard County, Kentucky, February 19, 
i860. On September 23, 1897 he was 
married to Miss Delta Heartick of De- 
Land, who survives him. 
Most of his early life was spent in 
Richmond, Ivy., where he was in business. 
Nearly twenty-five years ago Mr. and 
Mrs. Arnold moved to Florida to make 
their future home, and he engaged in 
citrus and truck growing. 
On January 29, 1917, while on his way 
to the depot with an automobile full of 
oranges, a long freight train backed into 
Mr. Arnold’s machine, demolishing the 
machine and crushing Mr. Arnold be¬ 
neath the wreckage. Death resulted in¬ 
stantly, the immediate cause being a 
crushed chest. 
Mr. Arnold was a member of the First 
Christian church at DeLand and for years 
identified with all good movements in 
his town and county. Liberal with his 
finances as well as with his time, he was 
always among the first to be called upon 
to assist in public enterprises. 
He was the first manager of the Vo¬ 
lusia Citrus Sub-Exchange and it was 
through his efforts that so much of the 
fruit of his section was secured. After 
getting the exchange firmly established, 
he refused re-election as manager, but 
acted as secretary until his death. 
No man in Volusia County was held in 
higher esteem by all people than Thomas 
E. Arnold. 
DR. W. H. CONIBEAR 
Although he had not been a resident of 
long years nor a veteran member of the 
Society, we all owe much to the memory 
of another of our departed members in 
the person of the late Dr. W. H. Coni- 
bear. 
He came to this state first in March, 
1909, from Illinois being persuaded to 
come here by a real estate man who as¬ 
sured the doctor that the genial climate 
of Florida would cure a cough which 
bothered him constantly during the winter 
months in the cold north. He came and 
on that first trip purchased 80 acres near 
Fort Myers. 
In December, 1911, he again came to 
the state and remained four months. 
In August, 1912, he moved his family 
to his home at Lake Hollingsworth where 
he had a small 6-year-old grove and a 
14-acre truck patch under irrigation. The 
doctor was a student of chemistry and bi¬ 
ology and made many experiments in his 
own grove and garden the results of 
which he published in the Lakeland Tele¬ 
gram and the result of his studies in¬ 
duced a commercial fertilizer company to 
put a grinder (the first in the state) at 
their mines where they began turning out 
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