BIO:  Dr. John B. ARNOLD, Latimore Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 467

DR. JOHN B. ARNOLD (deceased) was born at Flatbush, Conn., January 9, 1775.  
June 20, 1790, he married Rachel Weakly, in this county, whither he had come 
when a single man, and was at that time a graduate of medicine.  He died 
February 28, 1822; his widow was born July 27, 1773, and died November 8, 1851.  
They had eight children:  Maria, born July 1, 1800, married Dr. Smith, a 
prominent physician, who died at Springfield, Ohio; Jane, born September 18, 
1801; Charlotte, born March 9, 1807; Louisa, born November 23, 1808; Rebecca R., 
born March 27, 1811; John J. T., born September 29, 1812, was a natural artist 
and fine portrait painter; Harriet, born October 21, 1815, and Emily, born 
February 25, 1820.  Mrs. Harriet Gardner, mother of William H. Gardner, is the 
only one of this family now (1886) living.