Bion Joseph Arnold

(1861-1942) lived in Ashland, Saunders County, and in Lincoln. Electrical engineer, inventor of plan for electrification of New York's Grand Central Terminal, known as "father of the third rail"; recipient of Washington Award in 1929. Consult National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol B (1927) 456-457 and Omaha World Herald Sunday Magazine, August 25, 1929, p. 4 and New York Times obituary, January 31, 1942, p. 17.

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