WI BIO - Dodge Co - ARMS, Richard
History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 
1880, p 687 

Richard ARMS, deceased, who was the son of Charles ARMS, was born in 
Chittenden County, Vermont, 26 June 1817, where he followed farming until 
1854. He then removed to the town of Randolph, Columbia County, Wisconsin; 
here he bought a farm of 320 acres, and for fourteen years lived the life of 
an honest farmer. In the fall of 1868, he [Richard ARMS] removed to the 
village of Randolph, and left his son to manage the farm, yet he was 
constantly passing back and forth to his farm, looking after it until his 
death, 04 July 1879.

Rev. J. T. WOODHEAD, Pastor of the M. E. [Methodist Episcopal] Church, of 
Randolph, at the time of his death says: Richard ARMS had retired from the 
village Fourth of July celebration to his farm four miles from the village, 
when he at once ceased to work and live. The shock upon our citizens was 
great; Brother ARMS was so well known and so highly respected; he was one of 
those Christian laymen, who pay the lingering balance of the old church debt 
themselves, rather than annoy the people a second or third time, saying to 
his good wife, "You know it is all for Him who gave Himself for us;" he was 
converted at the age of 15, in Vermont, and his presence has been light and 
help to the church ever since; his earnest prayers were refreshing; before 
ascending, he anointed a successor in his son.

04 April 1842 he [Richard ARMS] married Miss Lucy H., daughter of John B. and 
Eliza LARRABEE, of Lancaster [Leicester, Addison County, Vermont? Lancaster, 
Coos County, New Hampshire?], whom he left a widow with one son; they 
[Richard and Lucy H. (LARRABEE) ARMS] having had one daughter, Mary J., 
deceased; their son, Myron F., who was born in Goshen [Addison or Orange 
County?], Vermont, 25 April 1847, came West with his parents in 1854; was 
educated at Lawrence University, of Appleton [Outagamie County], Wisconsin. 
On 03 September 1867 he married Miss Mary [LYONS], daughter of Robert and 
Abagail LYONS, of Braintree, Orange County, Vermont; he devoted his attention 
to farming until failing health compelled him to seek medical aid; in July 
1879, he returned from Danville [Broome County], New York, where he had gone 
to recuperate and to attend his father's funeral, and in a little more than 
six weeks he was buried at his side. He was a faithful member of the M. E. 
[Methodist Episcopal] Church, and, in the language of Rev. J. T. WOODHEAD, 
"had the elements and character of a noble, Christian manhood;" he was the 
father of seven children, six of whom, with their mother, survive him; their 
names as follows: Arthur M., deceased; Jennie; Richard; Lucy; Walter; James; 
and Jesse. 

Submitted by: Cathy Kubly