The Biographical Dictionary of America/Arnold, Lauren Briggs

ARNOLD, Lauren Briggs, agriculturist, was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1814. He received an academical education and was graduated from Union college in 1843, and in 1857 he organized one of the earliest farmers' clubs in western New York, and read to it his first essay on dairying. In 1868 he built a model cheese factory, where he had a perfect dairy laboratory, which enabled him to make several valuable discoveries in the chemistry of cheesemaking. In 1874, his health having failed, he took a five-acre farm in Rochester, N. Y. He lectured upon dairy husbandry at Cornell university and before farmers' organizations, and wrote largely for the agricultural press. In 1886 he was sent by the government to represent the United States at the annual meeting of the British dairy association in London. He died March 8, 1888.