Arnold, Thomas D – Arthur, William E
Arnold, Thomas D
congressman, was born May 23, 1798, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Knox county, Tenn., from 1831 to 1833; and was elected for a second term, from 1841 to 1843, representing Greene county. He died May 26, 1870, in Jonesboro, Tenn.
Arnold, Thomas H
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1857, in New Orleans, La. For three years he was connected with the Chattanooga Times, and is now editor of the Middleborough News, of which publication he is also president and manager. His poems have appeared in several standard collections.
Arnold, Tressa Richardson
evangelist, editor, was born May 9, 1864, in Lanesboro, Minn. In 1882 she graduated from the Emporia Commercial and Business college, and since that time has taken an active part as a teacher and Sunday school missionary, accepting an evangelist's license in 1885. In 1887 she married T. B. Arnold, the veteran journalist and book publisher of Chicago; and since then has been editor of the Light and Life series of Sunday school periodicals. Since 1888 she has been an assistant superintendent of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children, of which institution her husband is superintendent.
Arnold, Warren O
manufacturer, congressman, was born June 3, 1839, in Coventry, R. I. He received his education in the public schools of his native state; was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1857 to 1864; and from the latter date to 1866 was engaged in cotton manufacturing. Since that time he has been engaged in the manufacture of woolens. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican. was
Arnold, William Carlile
lawyer, congressman, was born July 15, 1851, in Luthersburg, Pa. He was educated in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; admitted to the bar in 1875 and has practiced law continuously since his admission; had never held any public office before his election to the fifty-fourth congress. He was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Arnot, John
financier, congressman, was born March 31, 1831, in Elmira, N. Y.
He was three times president of the village of Elmira, and was the first mayor after its incorporation; and was, subsequently, twice elected mayor. He became cashier of The Chemung Canal bank, in 1851, and continued in that position. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Arnot, Matthias Hollenback
capitalist, was born Nov. 10, 1832. As president of The Chemung Canal bank, a family institution, which has in every crisis proved itself as solid as The Bank of England, Mr. Arnot has sustained the financial credit of Elmira in every storm.
His art gallery, which has cost not less than $300,000, is an evidence that his aspirations are higher and better than the mere love of gain. Among his practical interests are The Chemung Canal bank, The Sheldon Saddlery Co., Thomas Briggs and Co., brewers, The Junction Canal Co., The Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Co., The Chemung Plank Road Co., and The Elmira Industrial association, of most if not all of which he is the head.
Arrington, Alfred W
lawyer, author, poet, was born in September, 1810, in Iredell county, N. C. He was a prominent lawyer in the southwest, and later in Chicago. He was the author of The Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha; Sketches of the Southwest; and Poems, with Memoir. He died Dec. 31, 1867, in Chicago, Ill.
Arrington, H. Archibald
congressman, was born in North Carolina.
He represented that state in congress from 1841 to 1845, after which he retired to private life. His son, Alfred W. Arrington, attained distinction as a methodist preacher, a lawyer, and judge, and a writer for the magazines under the assumed name of Charles Summerfield.
Arrowsmith, Eusebius Wal- Ling
lawyer, was born Oct. 3, 1869, in New York city. He is a successful lawyer of Freehold, N. J., and makes a specialty of criminal law. He is deputy county clerk, and takes an active part in democratic politics.
Arthur, Chester Allan
twentyfirst president of the United States, was born Oct. 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vt. He graduated at Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., 1849; taught school and was principal of the Pownal academy, Vermont.
Studied law and was admitted to the bar, and was married to Miss Herndon. He was a delegate to the Saratoga convention when the republican party of New York was formed. Was judge-advocate of the second brigade of state militia before we war. In 1860 Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed him engineer-inchief on his staff and afterwards inspector-general and quartermaster-general, holding the latter office until the close of 1863. He practiced law in New York city until Nov. 20, 1871, when he was appointed collector of customs at that port, and reappointed in 1875. In 1877 he was chairman of the republican central committee of New York city, when President Hayes issued his order forbidding officers in the civil service from acting as political managers. Mr. Arthur neglected to comply with this order and was removed by the president in July, 1878. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1880, and a strong supporter of General Grant. He was nominated for vice-president on the first ballot, which stood for Chester A. Arthur, 468; E. B. Washburne, Illinois, 193; Marshall Jewell, Connecticut, 44; Horace Maynard, Tennessee, 30; B. K. Bruce, Mississippi, 8; J. L. Alcorn, Mississippi, 4; E. J.
Davis, Texas, 2; Thomas Settle, North Carolina, 1; Stewart L. Woodford, New York, 1. Being elected he took the oath of office and became vice-president March 4, 1881. On being notified by the cabinet of the death of President Garfield, he took the oath of office as president at his own house in New York city, on Sept. 20, 1881, at two o'clock in the morning. On reaching Washington, Sept. 22, he again took the oath of office before Chief Justice Waite. The republican national convention met at Chicago, June 3, 1884. Those receiving the highest number of votes on the first ballot were James G. Blaine, 3341/2, and Chester A. Arthur, 278. On the fourth ballot Mr. Blaine was nominated. General Arthur retired from the presidency March 4, 1885, and died Nov. 18, 1886, in New York city.
Arthur, Christopher
soldier, physician, public official, was born Sept. 16, 1833, in Highland county, Ohio. In 1862 he raised a company for the seventy-fifth Indiana volunteers, of which he was chosen captain. A few days later he was appointed surgeon of the regiment, which was assigned to the fourteenth army corps. With this command he served through the entire Atlanta campaign. At the battle of Chickamauga he was taken prisoner, and sent first to Atlanta, and finally to Libby prison. He has identified himself with the public schools of Camden, where he lived for some years, and is now president and a stockholder of the Citizens' bank. He has a very large and interesting collection of archæological specimens. war.
Arthur, Jesse
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1846, in Kershaw county, S. C. He attended a private school until September, 1863, when he entered the confederate army, and served through the He was made prisoner in front of Richmond on Aug. 15, 1864; and was released in March of the following year. In 1889 he moved to Washington territory, attained prominence as an able lawyer; and in 1892 was elected superior court judge of the state of Washington for Spokane county, which position he still holds.
Arthur, Joseph Charles
botanist, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Lowville, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Iowa;. studied four years at the Iowa Agricultural college, taking the degree of B. S.; then attended Cornell, receiving the degree D. Sc.; and also studied at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the university of Bonn. He has been instructor in botany at the Iowa Agricultural college, the university of Wisconsin; and during 1884-87 was botanist to the Agricultural Experiment station at Geneva, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been professor of vegetable physiology and pathology in Purdue university.
Arthur, Timothy Shay
journalist, author, was born in 1809 in Newburg, N.
Y. He was a prolific writer of moral tales, with much more excellence of intention than literary merit to recommend them, but which have enjoyed a very extensive popularity. He was the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room; Six Nights with the Washingtonians; and Tales of Married Life, which are well known works. His life was nearly all spent in Philadelphia. He died March 6, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Arthur, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1796 in Antrim, Ireland. He was graduated at Belfast college, came to the United States, studied law for a short time, and was then called to the baptist ministry. After preaching in Vermont and western New York, he was settled as pastor of the Calvary baptist church of Albany, N. Y., where he remained from 1855 to 1863. He afterward removed to Schenectady, where he published a magazine called the Antiquarian, to whose pages he contributed much curious learning on a variety of topics. He published an Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. Dr. Arthur was noted for his attainments in the classics and in history, both sacred and profane. His son, Chester Allan Arthur, was twenty-first president of the United States. He died Oct. 27, 1875, in Newtonville, N. Y.
Arthur, William E
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 3, 1825, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He removed with his parents to Covington, Ky., where he was educated; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He was elected attorney for the ninth judicial district, and served from 1856 to 1862; was a presidential elector in 1860; elected judge of the ninth judicial district in 1866; and was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses.