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Overview
Benjamin W. Arnold was a Hamilton College alumnus of the class of 1886. Beyond his Hamilton connection, additional biographical details are not established from these corpus sources.
Relevance to Research
Arnold appears in the October 21, 1913 issue of Hamilton Life, which notes that the Albany Knickerbocker-Press had recently published “a large cut of Benjamin Arnold, ‘86, and a short sketch of his life.” He is mentioned again in the April 8, 1960 issue of the Spectator, which reports that a man named Benjamin Arnold of the class of 1886 donated a collection of owls to the Hamilton College Museum (the Natural History collection curated by Prof. Walter Hess).
Notes
The 1913 Hamilton Life reference suggests he was a notable enough figure to merit a newspaper profile, though the nature of his career is not detailed in the corpus. The 1960 Spectator reference to a museum donation confirms his lasting connection to the college. Both sources use “class of 1886” without a middle initial, so the “W.” in his name cannot be confirmed from these sources alone.
Related Sources
- hamilton-life-1913-10-21_djvu.txt
- spec-1960-04-08_djvu.txt