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History and Progress of the County of Marion, West Virginia
by George A. Dunnington, Publisher 1880

Pen Sketches of Prominent Citizens
HON. U. N. ARNETT

This gentleman is well known throughout the State of West Virginia as a
politician, having for some years taken an active part in the politics of
his county and State. He was born March 7, 1820, and is. therefore, now
sixty years of age. He is a son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Arnett, who lived
near Rivesville, this county, where Mr. Arnett now resides, his calling
being that of a, farmer and grazier. His boyhood was passed upon the farm.
working at that calling in the summer, and in the winter attending the
common schools of the day. He entered public life in 1851, as a
representative of Marion county in the Vinginia Legislature, serving in
that capacity for a period of six years. From that time up to 1870. he
served at various time as a justice of the peace and as foreman of the
grand jury, which latter position he held for over twenty years. In 1872.
Mr. Arnett was a member of the constitutional convention of West Virginia,
and was soon afterwards elected State Senator from his district, which
office he held for four years, two years of the time serving as President
of the Senate. Mr. Arnett is a Democrat, and is one of the most popular men
of his party in the county. He also possesses many friends belonging to
other parties, they recognizing in him an honest opponent, and a faithful
and distinguished legislator during the time he served in the Senate. He is
one of our most wealthy citizens, and is the proprietor of a beautiful
home, upon his estate on the Monongahela river, near the town of
Rivesville.