NICHOLAS AREND, farmer, P.O. Berwick, was born in Belgium, November 6, 1814. His parents, Nicholas and Mary A.. Arend, were also natives of Belgium, where they married and lived and died. Our subject married, May 4, 1857, Anna Pethe, who was born in Belgium in November, 1832, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Pethe, of same nativity and who remained in their native land until death. Our subject and wife immigrated to America, coming direct to Big Spring Township, this county, in 1857, where they have remained ever since. They are the parents of eight children, seven now living: Nicholas, John, Anna (wife of Peter M. Reinhart), Dominic, Peter, Mary and Andrew; Nicholas is deceased. Our subject now owns eighty acres of fine land, whereon he and his family reside. They are all faithful members of the Catholic Church at St. Nicholas.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.715
BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP