Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameSamuel P ARNOLD 
1885
1885OccupationPostmaster, Curwensville, PA
FatherSamuel ARNOLD (1822-1899)
MotherMary A CARLISLE (1825-1911)
Misc. Notes
A Samuel P. Arnold presented the Oration “We Build Our Own Monuments” as a Music Orchestra performance at The Patton Graded Public School First Annual Commencement on Thursday evening April 8th, 1886. [There were ten graduates in the Class of ‘86.]869
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A Samuel Arnold (42) is listed in the 1910 census living in Curwensville, Clearfield, PA (State Street) with his wife Tillie (40), sons Samuel (17) and John (9) and daughter Marion (16). He is a Post Master in the Mail Service.894
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Who is serving [in 1911] in his second term as postmaster at Curwensville, is engaged in the lumber business.
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Early Monday morning of January 27, 1897 the plant of The Elk Tanning Co., in Curwensville, a subsidary of The United States Leather Co., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt the same year.
The lumber was purchased from Samuel P. Arnold, now [1949] a resident of Harrisburg, Pa. and cut at Arnold's Mill at Bridgeport. The next day, January 28, 1897, one of the tanning company houses was burnt, burning the four small children of Mr. and Mrs. John Webb, ages 13 months to 7 years. The tannery was rebuilt and continued in operation until about 1902, again being destroyed by fire on March 28, 1932, never to be rebuilt.2312
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A Samuel P. Arnold is listed as Postmaster in Curwensville, PA - 30 January 1905 to 4 September 1915.1003
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Samuel Arnold had his lumber mill on Anderson Creek at Bridgeport. His store was in a building known as the "Arnold Building" or "Hall" at the present [1949] site of the Bonsall Garage.4906
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I am not certain on some of these narratives whether they are in reference to Samuel Arnold the father or the son. I have bold-faced some of the wording to help differentiate between the two possibilities.3
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A Samuel Arnold (42) is listed in the 1910 census living in Curwensville, Clearfield, PA (State Street) with his wife Tillie (40), sons Samuel (17) and John (9) and daughter Marion (16). He is a Post Master in the Mail Service.894
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Who is serving [in 1911] in his second term as postmaster at Curwensville, is engaged in the lumber business.
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Early Monday morning of January 27, 1897 the plant of The Elk Tanning Co., in Curwensville, a subsidary of The United States Leather Co., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt the same year.
The lumber was purchased from Samuel P. Arnold, now [1949] a resident of Harrisburg, Pa. and cut at Arnold's Mill at Bridgeport. The next day, January 28, 1897, one of the tanning company houses was burnt, burning the four small children of Mr. and Mrs. John Webb, ages 13 months to 7 years. The tannery was rebuilt and continued in operation until about 1902, again being destroyed by fire on March 28, 1932, never to be rebuilt.2312
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A Samuel P. Arnold is listed as Postmaster in Curwensville, PA - 30 January 1905 to 4 September 1915.1003
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Samuel Arnold had his lumber mill on Anderson Creek at Bridgeport. His store was in a building known as the "Arnold Building" or "Hall" at the present [1949] site of the Bonsall Garage.4906
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I am not certain on some of these narratives whether they are in reference to Samuel Arnold the father or the son. I have bold-faced some of the wording to help differentiate between the two possibilities.3