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Benjamin Walworth Arnold (April 30, 1865 – November 8, 1932) was an American lumber businessman from New York.

Early life

Benjamin Walworth Arnold was born on April 30, 1865, in Albany, New York, to Jane Treat (née Avery) and Benjamin W. Arnold. His father ran a lumber operation in Albany with Alexander Folsom until 1890. He attended Albany Academy and the Clinton Grammar School. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1886 with a Bachelor of Arts and later in 1898 with a Master of Arts. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

Career

After graduating, Arnold worked in the lumber business in Michigan and in Canada. After his father's death in 1891, he succeeded him in the family's lumber business. He was a partner in Alger, Smith and Company. He was head of the Spanish River Lumber Company based in Spanish Mills, Ontario. He retired in 1925. He owned timber lands in Minnesota and Michigan. He was president of the Duluth and Northern Minnesota Railroad.

Arnold was elected a trustee of Hamilton College in 1901. In 1904, he served as a presidential elector for Theodore Roosevelt. He was a member of the New York State Board of Charities for a number of years. He served as honorary curator of ornithology at the New York State Museum. He served as president of the Dudley Observatory and trustee of the Albany Hospital. He was a director of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank and trustee of the Albany Savings Bank and the Fourth Presbyterian Church.

During World War I, Arnold was chairman of the home defense committee of Albany County.

Personal life

Arnold married Sarah Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, daughter of Killiaen Van Rensselaer, in Albany in 1903. He was an elder of the Fourth Presbyterian Church.

Arnold lived at 465 State Street in Albany. He owned the Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House. He died on November 8, 1932, in Albany.

Legacy

Arnold collected more than one hundred Philippine, Bahamian and American woods. These were donated to the Yale School of Forestry and were named the Benjamin Walworth Arnold Memorial Collection. He donated a collection of North American, South American, European, Falkland Island and African bird eggs to the New York State Museum.

References

1. ^ "Yale Installs Important Wood Collection". Paper Trade Journal. 106 (13): 46. 1938. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
2. Hall, Henry, ed. (1896). America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography. Vol. 2. The New York Tribune. p. 33. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
3. "Benjamin W. Arnold". The New-York Evangelist. 1891-02-05. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
4. ^ Hills, Frederick S. (1910). New York State Men: Biographic Studies and Character Portraits. The Argue Company. p. 26. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
5. ^ "Arnold-Van Rensselaer". American Lumberman. 1903-11-14. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
6. Hamilton College Catalogue. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
7. The World War: Selective Service in the County of Albany in the State of New York. J. B. Lyon Company. 1922. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
8. "The Van Rensselaer Family". American Historical Magazine. 1906. p. 134. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.
9. Neil G. Larson (May 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-10-13. See also: "Accompanying 10 photos".
10. "Obituary". Buffalo Courier. 1891-01-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Newspapers.com.
11. New York State Museum Bulletin. New York State Museum. 1916. pp. 88, 91. Retrieved 2024-08-18 – via Archive.org.

External links

• Media related to Benjamin W. Arnold at Wikimedia Commons
• Albany Institute of History & Art: Benjamin Walworth Arnold (1865-1932) by Fritz Winold Reiss
• Biodiversity Heritage Library: Arnold, Benjamin Walworth

• 1865 births
• 1932 deaths
• Businesspeople from Albany, New York
• Hamilton College (New York) alumni
• American businesspeople in timber
• American railroad executives
• 19th-century American businesspeople
• 20th-century American businesspeople
• The Albany Academy alumni