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Dr John Burgoyne Arnold

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Dr John Burgoyne Arnold

Birth
Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Death
28 Feb 1822 (aged 47)
Latimore Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Reading Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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CAME TO PENNA. FROM CONNECTICUT IN 1790. PRACTICED MEDICINE YORK SPRINGS, PA. FIRST PRACTITONER IN ADAMS COUNTY PA. HELPED WITH LAYING OUT THE TOWN OF HAMPTON, PA. HUSBAND TO RACHAEL (WEAKLEY). WAS 47 YEARS OLD AT TIME OF DEATH.

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.
CAME TO PENNA. FROM CONNECTICUT IN 1790. PRACTICED MEDICINE YORK SPRINGS, PA. FIRST PRACTITONER IN ADAMS COUNTY PA. HELPED WITH LAYING OUT THE TOWN OF HAMPTON, PA. HUSBAND TO RACHAEL (WEAKLEY). WAS 47 YEARS OLD AT TIME OF DEATH.

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.


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