Researching George Arnold
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 16144 people with the Arnold surname? In that year Arnold was ranked number 237 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Arnold on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Arnold and the Arnold Family Tree
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George Arnold (poet)
George Arnold (June 24, 1834 – November 9, 1865) was an American author and poet.
He was born in New York City on June 24, 1834. After briefly attempting a career as a portrait painter, he turned to writing and became a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and The Leader. A contemporary of Walt Whitman, Arnold was likewise a patron of Pfaff's beer cellar.
His most enduring work is a humorous piece, The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
He died on November 9, 1865, in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Source: George Arnold (poet), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Arnold (settler)
George Arnold was an early Scottish settler in Ontario, and the owner of Arnold's General Store on Richmond Road in "the Corners". He purchased the store from his brother-in-law, Andrew Main in the 1840s. When the post office first opened in 1851 the community had to adopt a more formal name and was named Bell's Corners after Hugh Bell. On 6 August 1851 George Arnold became the first postmaster of the Bell's Corners Post Office. After the great fire of 1870, he rebuilt facing the west instead of the north. George Arnold held the position of postmaster until his death on 21 October 1891. He and his wife had two sons and a daughter.
On 22 January 1892 he was succeeded by his son, J. F. Arnold. On 30 May 1893 J. F. Arnold resigned as postmaster and the Arnolds sold the business to John Dawson and his sons. On 6 July 1893 A. G. Dawson assumed the postmaster duties.
Another son, William Arnold, born in Bell's Corners in 1851, married Georgiana Eaton of Buckingham, Quebec on 27 May 1875. They both lived to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary in 1945.
Daughter Jessie Ann Arnold, born in 1858, married William Albert Eaton, also of Buckingham, Quebec, on 29 January 1881.
Source: George Arnold (settler), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Arnold (entomologist)
George Arnold (1881, Hong Kong - 1962) was a British entomologist who specialised in aculeate Hymenoptera (particularly ants, sphecid wasps and pompilid wasps). From the Royal College of Science he was appointed to the Department of Cytology and Cancer Research at Liverpool andthen only worked on Hymenoptera as a hobby. In 1911 he became curator, and later director, of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, Bulawayo.
The butterfly species Anthene arnoldi, or Arnold's hairtail, was named after him by Neville Jones in 1918.
Source: George Arnold (entomologist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Arnold
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