James G. Arnold

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1792-12-10

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c1876

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White

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"James G. Arnold" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005624, (accessed February 5, 2025).

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Covington, Kentucky, merchant. Paris, Kentucky native. Son of Elisha Arnold. Married to Margaret Strain Dalton Arnold in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1816. Father of Thomas Arnold, Mariana Arnold, Margaret Arnold, James Arnold, and Pugh Arnold. Teacher in Mason County. Established Washington Male Academy in Mason County. Merchant in Covington in 1818. Counselor at law in Covington in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Covington in 1850. Resident in Covington in 1860. Employed Ellen Phelps, Hannah Tooney, and Patrick Haggarty in Covington in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Covington in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 7, p. 310A
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 6, p. 120.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 7, p. 888.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward &, p. 317A.
Find A Grave, "J.G. Arnold (c1792-c1876)," Memorial #86926123, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86926123 (accessed September 11, 2019).
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 422.

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