When Ira Ray Arnold was born on 22 August 1885, in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States, his father, John Henry Arnold, was 28 and his mother, Mary Edith Frane, was 25. He married Alice M. Presbrey on 6 June 1935, in Algona, Kossuth, Iowa, United States. He died on 20 November 1957, in Rock Falls, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rock Falls, Whiteside, Illinois, 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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