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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisARNOLD, Isaac Newton
(1815—1884)
ARNOLD, Isaac Newton, a Representative from Illinois; born in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.Y., November 30, 1815; attended the district and select schools and Hartwick Seminary; taught school in Otsego County 1832-1835; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1836 and continued the practice of law; was elected as city clerk of Chicago in 1837, but had served only a short time when he resigned to devote his entire efforts to his law practice; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1842; member of the State house of representatives in 1842 and 1843; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844; delegate to the Free-Soil National Convention at Buffalo in 1848; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1855 and was an unsuccessful candidate for speaker; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to Congress in 1858; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-eighth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1864; during the Civil War acted as aide to Colonel Hunter at the Battle of Bull Run; served as Sixth Auditor of the United States Treasury, Washington, D.C., from April 29, 1865, to September 29, 1866, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in literary pursuits; died in Chicago, Ill., April 24, 1884; interment in Graceland Cemetery.
Arnold, Isaac Newton. Abraham Lincoln: a paper read before the Royal Historical Society
. 1881. Reprint, Chicago: Fergus printing company, 1883.
———. Benedict Arnold at Saratoga
. [Philadelphia: N.p., 1880].
———. Confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels. Speech of Hon. I. N. Arnold, of Ill., in the House of Representatives, May 23, 1862
. [Washington: Scammell & Co., printers, 1862].
———. Congressional legislation. Speech of Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, July 14, 1864
. [N.p., 1864].
———. The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery
. Chicago: Clarke, 1866; Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
———. The Life of Abraham Lincoln
. Chicago: McClurg, 1884. Reprint, introduction by James A. Rawley. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
———. The Life of Benedict Arnold
. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1880. Reprint, New York : Arno Press, 1979.
———. The power, duty, and necessity of destroying slavery in the rebel states
. [Washington]: Towers, printers, [1864].
———. Recollections of the early Chicago and Illinois bar
. [Chicago?: N.p., 1880?].
———. Reconstruction: liberty the cornerstone, and Lincoln the architect. Speech of Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of Illinois. Delivered in the House of representatives, March 19,1864
. Washington: Printed by L. Towers & co., 1864.
———. Reminiscences of the Illinois bar forty years ago: Lincoln and Douglas as orators and lawyers
. Chicago: Fergus Print. Co., 1881.
———. Ship canal from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan. Speech of Hon. Isaac N. Arnold ... delivered in the House of representatives of the United States, Jan. 15, 1863
. [Washington: L. Towers & co., printers, 1863].
———. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln
. New York: J. B. Bachelder, 1869.
———. William B. Ogden; and early days in Chicago: a paper read before the Chicago historical society, Tuesday, December 20, 1881
... 1881. Reprint, Chicago: Fergus printing company, 1882.
———. A letter to Isaac N. Arnold, relating to Abraham Lincoln, his wife, and their life in Springfield
. 1937. Reprint, [N.p.: 1938].
Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owen: three letters, Lincoln to Mrs. O.H. Browning, I.N. Arnold to O.H. Browning, O.H. Browning to I.N. Arnold
. Springfield, Ill.: Barker’s Art Store, 1922.
Shaw, Samuel M. A centennial offering; being a brief history of Cooperstown with a biographical sketch of James Fenimore Cooper, by Hon. I. N. Arnold. Together with other interesting local facts and data. Edited by S. M. Shaw
. Cooperstown, N.Y.: Printed at the Freeman’s journal office, 1886.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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