George Stanleigh Arnold

1881 - 1942  (60 years)

• Name	George Stanleigh Arnold
  Birth	3 Apr 1881	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Jan 1942	Marin, California
  Person ID	I13387	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	George Sumner Arnold,   b. 16 Apr 1846, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 7 Nov 1888 (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Evelyn Greenwood Thompson
  Family ID	F8398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent,   b. 8 Jan 1894, Chicago, Cook, Illinois d. 12 Jan 1952, Marin, California (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	26 Feb 1915	Washington, D.C.   [2]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold,   b. 2 Dec 1915, San Francisco, San Francisco, California d. 18 Sep 1992, Los Altos, Santa Clara, California (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F8400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  His daughter Elizabeth's obituary in the Marin Independent Journal (20 Sep 1992, reproduced at www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html) calls him "a prominent San Francisco attorney", but also refers to him, apparently in error, as "Eugene Arnold." Elizabeth's son Tom Whitmore confirms that his name was George Stanleigh Arnold, and adds that he was a Yale man known to friends as "Big Stan." From his Yale obituary: Admitted to practice in Connecticut 1906 and California 1910, in office of Talcott H Russell ['69], New Haven, 1906; law examiner United States Forest Service, Washington, D C , 1906-09, lawyer in San Francisco 1909-42 (member Denman & Arnold 1911-18); special assistant to United States Attorney General in oil-land litigation 1913; San Francisco representative for President Wilson's Commission on Mediation and Conciliation 1917; member War Labor Policies Board, Washington, 1918-19, special assistant to Attorney General of United States in charge NRA litigation 1934-35; chairman emergency boards created by President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1937 under provisions of Railway Labor Act to investigate and report on railway labor disputes; chairman of a three-man board created by the President in 1941 to investigate wage dispute between ore dock workers of Duluth-Supenor district and rail carriers, president Pacific States (now Coos Bay) Lumber Company 1926-27 and Katharine Branson School, Ross, Calif, 1939-42; vice-president California Fish and Game Commission; director San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Save-the-Redwoods League; Boy Scout Commissioner Mann County, president Yale Alumni Association of Northern California 1921-23 and representative on Alumni Board 1923-42, California State chairman Yale Law School Association 1921; member University Club of San Francisco (president 1925-29) and St John's Church (Episcopal), Ross.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1607] History of the Class of 1903 ed. Ziegler Sargent. New Haven: Yale University, 1906. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920.