Researching Samuel Arnold
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The name Samuel means "asked of God" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Samuel Arnold on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Arnold and the Arnold Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold (composer)
Samuel Arnold (10 August 1740 – 22 October 1802) was an English composer and organist.
Arnold was born in London (his mother is said to have been Princess Amelia; his father was Thomas Arnold. He began writing music for the theatre in about 1764. A few years later he became director of music at the Marylebone Gardens, for which much of his popular music was written. In 1777 he went to work for George Colman the Elder at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. In 1783 he became organist at the Chapel Royal, and in 1793 he became organist at Westminster Abbey, where he was eventually buried.
Source: Samuel Arnold (composer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaSamuel Arnold (Connecticut politician)
Samuel Arnold (June 1, 1806 – May 5, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Born in Haddam, Connecticut, Arnold attended the local academy at Plainfield, Connecticut, and Westfield Academy, Massachusetts. He devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits. He acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry, and became owner of a line of schooners operating between New York and Philadelphia. He was, also, for a number of years, president of the Bank of East Haddam. He served as member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851.
Arnold was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858. He resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying. He died in Haddam, Connecticut, May 5, 1869. He was interred in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam.
Source: Samuel Arnold (Connecticut politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Arnold
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