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Title: National Cyclopædia of American Biography, v.17 (1920), pp.257-8 Author: New York, J. T. White Company Publication: http://www.archive.org/details/nationalcyclopae17newy Text: ARNOLD, Conway Hillyer, naval officer, was born in New York city, Nov. 14, 1848, son of Henry Nathan Tewkesbury and Cornelia Van Vleck (Sleight) Arnold, and a descendant of John Arnold, the first schoolmaster of Newark, N. J., of whom the earliest mention was made in 1666; from him and his wife, Mary Benedict, the line of descent is traced through their son, Bowley, and his wife; their son, Bowley and his wife, Charlotte Langstaff; their son, John, and his wife, Mary Willson; their son, Nathan, and his wife, Elizabeth Tewkesbury, and their son, Nathan Tewkesbury, and his wife, Mary Dunn, who were the grandparents of Conway H. Arnold. Col. John Conway, the maternal great-grandfather of our subject, was an officer in the Continental army. Henry T. Arnold, our subject 's father, was commander in the United States Navy. The son was educated in private schools, Columbia College Grammar School, and was graduated at the U. S. Naval Academy in 1867. During 1867-68 he was on a special cruise on the Minnesota. He was promoted to ensign in 1868; master, 1870; lieutenant, 1871; lieutenant-commander, Jan. 10, 1892; commander, May 11, 1898; captain, Sept. 17, 1902; rearadmiral, in command of the Third Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, 1908; and retired for age, Nov. 14, 1910. During 1868-70 he served on the Powhatan in the Pacific Fleet; in 1870-71 he was on the flagship Severn, North Atlantic Station, as aide to R. A. Poor; on the receiving ship Vermont in 1871; aide to R. A. Stringham, 1871-72; on the Wasp, South Atlantic station, 1S72-74; Naval Observatory, 1874-75; on the flagship Hartford, North Atlantic station, 1875-77 ; flag lieutenant, and secretary to Rear-Admiral Trenchard, North Atlantic station, 1877-78; commanding the Wyandotte, Navy Yard. Washington, 1878-81; on" the Lancaster, as secretary to Rear-Admiral Nicholson, 1881-82; in special service on the Miantonoma, 1882-83; on the Nipsic, South Atlantic station, 1883-86; Navy Yard, N. Y. city, 1886-89; secretary to Rear-Admiral Gherardi; North Atlantic 258 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA station, 1889 to June, 1893; on the Galena, Kearsarge, Dolphin, Baltimore and Philadelphia; inspector of merchant vessels 1892-94 at New York, 1S93; aide to Bear-Admiral Gherardi, Navy Yard, New York, 1894; in charge of the Branch Hydrographic Office, New York, 1894-96 ; on the battleship Massachusetts, 1896; commanding the Bancroft, European station, 1S97; lighthouse inspector, 6th district, and commanding the 5th Coast Defense District, 189S; commanding the Glacier and Bennington on the Asiatic station and in the Philippines, Apr. 3, 1899, to Apr,, 1901 ; president of the Wireless Telegraphy Board, 1902-03; member of the examining and retiring hoard ; commanding the U. S. R. S. Puritan and Lancaster, Navy Yard, League Island, Pa.; general inspection of II. S. S. West Virginia ; command of flagship West Virginia, armored cruiser division, Atlantic Fleet, 1906-07; special duty at Naval War College, from Nov. 4, 1907; rear-admiral, January, 1908. His first flagship was the Dolphin, later he transferred to the U. S. S. Maine. He visited Venezuela in Dec., 1908, at which time he received the order of Bolivar from Venezuela. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; Naval Order of the Caraboa; Aztec Society of 1847; Army and Navy Club, Washington; New York Yacht Club, and American Universities Club of London. He was married, Nov. 17, 1870, to Fanny, daughter of William W. W. Wood, of Raleigh, N. C., engineer-in-chief, U. S. N. ; of this union two children were born, Capt. Conway H., Jr., captain U. S. artillery, U. S. M. A., and William Wood Arnold, both deceased. Rear-Admiral Arnold died in New York city, July 16, 1917. |
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Title: National Cyclopædia of American Biography, v.20 (1929) p.195 Author: New York, J. T. White Company Publication: http://www.archive.org/details/nationalcyclopae20newy [not yet downloadable] |
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Title: RootsWeb site "Lee, Brown, Tinsley, Butler", 2005 Publication: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dlee-pobox |
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Title: Mansfield Vital Records Index, v.1A, p.50 Publication: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~windhamcoct/mansfieldvr/mansfieldindex.html |
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Title: Mansfield Vital Records Index, v.1A, p.46 Publication: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~windhamcoct/mansfieldvr/mansfieldindex.html |
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