1806 - 1869

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• Suffix	U.S. Representative from Connecticut
  Birth	1 Jun 1806	Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut,
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 May 1869	Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut,
  Person ID	I498	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	04 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Joseph ARNOLD, b. 21 Jan 1774, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Mother	Thankful CLARK, b. 25 Sep 1776, , , Connecticut
  Family ID	F365	Group Sheet

• Notes

  ARNOLD, Samuel, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Haddam, Conn., June 1, 1806; attended the local academy at Plainfield, Conn., and Westfield Academy, Massachusetts; devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits; acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry and became owner of a line of schooners operating between New York and Philadelphia; was, also, for a number of years, president of the Bank of East Haddam; member of the State house of representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858; resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying; died in Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., May 5, 1869; interment in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam.