Frank B. Arnold
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Frank B. Arnold (March 29, 1839, County Clare, Ireland – December 11, 1890, Unadilla, Otsego County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He was born as Michael Edwards in County Clare, Ireland. The family emigrated to the
In 1873, he married Clarissa Mygatt Sands (1845–1881), and they had a daughter Clarissa Sands Arnold (1877–1926). His wife died in 1881, after giving birth to a boy who died soon after too.
Arnold was Supervisor of the
In November 1890, he ran for Congress in the 24th District, but was defeated by Democrat John S. Pindar. During the election campaign, the newspapers unearthed the fact of his name change and intimated that it had been done "for dishonorable and degrading reasons." Depressed by the defeat and the slander campaign, he shot himself dead in his office with a pistol which had been the "murder weapon" in a case which he had defended in 1887, when he had obtained a verdict of manslaughter for his client. He was buried at St. Matthew's Cemetery in Unadilla.
Sources
- The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403 and 504ff)
- Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1888)
- EX-SENATOR ARNOLD'S SUICIDE in New York Times on 21 December 1890
- Four Girls in Europe from the notes of Clarissa Sands Arnold, published by Deborah Stewart Weber (2010; pg. 219–227)