Arnold Harry Smith

Born 29 May 1896 at Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio

Died 7 June 1987 at Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri

Arnold was the son of John B. Smith and Louisa M. Ormes Smith. He was raised at Akron, Ohio where his father was an insurance agent. His father died in 1911 and thereafter Arnold was raised by his mother who worked for a time as a paper hanger. Arnold worked for a time as a city news boy but by 1918 he was a laboratory assistant in chemistry with Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce. Arnold married to Elinor More Titus on 2 July 1921 at Kingston, New York. Arnold was a graduate of Armour Institute of Technology and at the time of his marriage was head chemist for the Thermoid Rubber Company at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1930, at the time of his daughter Esther's birth, the family was living near London, England and Arnold was the British and continental representative of the rubber section of Monsanto Rubber Company. In 1932, he was a chemist with Monsant Chemical Works in London. In 1939, he was a chemist with Monsanto Chemical Company at Llangollen, Wales. Arnold returned to the United States about 1941 and the family purchased a home at Kirkwood, Missouri where they resided permanently. Arnold and Elinor were the parents of four children; Nancy Orme Smith, Sandra Sinclair Smith, Prudence Marvin Smith, and Esther Arnold Smith. Arnold was buried with his wife in a Titus family plot at Walton Cemetery at Walton, New York. He was the husband of my fourth cousin twice removed.

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