Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Arnold, Thomas 1820 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Arnold, Thomas, Russia, was born in Rhode Island in 1820, a son of George, a 
son of Thomas, who was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1730.  He was a 
farmer and lived and died in his native state.  He wife was Hannah Green, a 
relative of General Green of Revolutionary fame.  They had three sons and one 
daughter.  George Arnold was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1777.  He was a 
carpenter and built the court-house at Providence, R.I.  He married Hannah, 
daughter of Jonathan Randall, and Annie Sprague Randall.  She was a daughter 
of Peter Sprague, of Cranston, R.I., who was a cousin of Governor Sprague.  
Mr. Arnold was a colonel in the State militia.  He came from Newport in 1821, 
where he engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarn.  In 1823 he removed to 
Poland, and there manufactured yarn for eight years.  He afterwards engaged in 
buying and selling cotton until his death in 1871 in Poland, and his wife in 
1871.  Thomas Arnold came to Herkimer county with his parents when a child, 
and has resided in Newport and Poland for seventy years.  He received a common 
school education, and was reared on the farm where he now resides.  He was for 
a number of years engaged in buying stock and shipping dressed beef east from 
Chicago, and was alos engaged in the same business at Utica.  He is a 
Republican, and has been justice of the peace for about twenty years. His 
maternal grandfather was Jonathan Randall, a resident of Cranston, R.I.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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