Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Arnold, Isaac Newton 1815 - 1884
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

ARNOLD, Isaac Newton, statesman, was born at Hartwick, Otsego county, N.Y., 
Nov. 30, 1815, son of George W. Arnold, physician, who emigrated from Rhode 
Island in 1800 and settled in the wilderness of western New York. In 1835 he 
was admitted to the bar, and the following year removed to the village of 
Chicago, Ill. When Chicago was organized as a city, he was elected city clerk 
and subsequently held other municipal offices. He was a representative in the 
Illinois state legislature, 1842-43, and in 1856; a presidential elector in 
1844, and was elected to the 37th and 38th congresses, serving, 1861-65. He 
was appointed an auditor of the U.S. treasury in 1865, and was president of 
the Chicago historical society for several years. He lectured before literary 
societies in England and America and published Life of Abraham Lincoln and the 
Overthrow of Slavery (1867), and Life of Benedict Arnold (1880). He died April 
24, 1884.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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