When Homer Gilmore Arnold was born on 24 July 1893, in Iowa, United States, his father, Ransom Gilmore Arnold, was 52 and his mother, Emma O. Comstock, was 32. He married Elsie May Cage on 28 March 1912, in Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States. He lived in Linn Township, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Jackson Township, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1925. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 5 January 1962, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
English, Scottish, German, Dutch, French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, and Slovenian: from the ancient Germanic personal name Arnwald (Middle English Arnold, Old French Arnaut), composed of the elements arn ‘eagle’ + wald ‘rule, power’. This name was introduced to Britain by the Normans.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Arnold in Nottinghamshire and East Yorkshire, from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + halh ‘nook’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of the German personal name (see 1 above), at least in part on account of its resemblance to the Jewish name Aaron .
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