Notes for Gorton Arnold: Information on Gorton Arnold from Dayton to 1840. Born in 1804 in Chenango County, New York he joined an immigrant party at the age of 16 to move to Dayton Ohio. He apprenticed himself to Thomas Morrison to learn the carpenter trade. Subsequently Mr Morrison took him into partnership, and they became well-know contractors and builders, continuing in partnership until 1847. Thomas Brown, contemporary with them, did the brick work, and they the wood work on the same buildings, the principal contractors here. In 1837, he married Ritta Ann Oliver, the daughter of James Bracy Oliver, born February 27, 1815. In 1839 he purchased the farm on which he resided until his death. The homestead, built in 1832 is now occupied by his son James Oliver Arnold. After leaving the East, Mr. Arnold lost sight of his sister Frances, who was 2 years younger, and heard nothing of ther for 52 years, when through Marcus Ells, he obtained the clew which resulted in their reunion at Norwich, Connecticut. Mrs. Arnold died September 21, 1888. Mr. Arnold died in 1889, at the age of 85 years old.
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Gorton Arnold (b. 1804, d. 1889)
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