Birth ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 6}
date: 4 July 1861
place: Dettweiller (Dettwiller), Alsace, France

Christening
age:
place:

Marriage ³
date: 15 September 1894
age: about 31 years old
place: New York City, New York

Death ⁸
date: 29 June 1944, 9:30 P.M.
age: 82 years, 11 months, 25 days
place: Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Manhattan, New York

Burial⁸
date: 3 July 1944
place: Ocean View The Cemetery, Staten Island, New York

Jacques was returning to New York City from La Havre in March, at the age of 32, seven months before his marriage to Sophie Gaeckle. He has one piece of luggage and is riding in the forward compartment of steerage. It indicates that he was visiting Germany and was still an alien working as a baker.

This census gives the month and year of each individual. Jacob was born July 1861, and Sophie was born 1868. Their place of birth is listed as Germany; Alsace was currently German occupied. Their home at this census taking was in an apartment house at 409 Fifth Street in Manhattan, New York. For an occupation he is listed as a laborer. Though married 6 years no children are listed as having been born.

By 1910 Sophia, now 41, and Jacob, 48 were living at 2449 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan with one child, Fred, now 6 years old. Between the last census and that of 1910, the Arnold family had lived in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, where Fred had been born. This census shows that Jacob immigrated in 1891 and that he had been naturalized by this year. Sophie immigrated in 1888. At this point Jacob was working as a baker and Sophie was keeping house and looking after their child.

6. Jacob Arnold entry; S.S.La Savoie Passenger Manifest, 4 October 1919, list 4, line 15; in List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States, Sailing from La Havre, Arriving in New York 19 October 1919; www.ellisisland.org

This ship's manifest shows that Jacob spent time visiting his nephew, Charles Reeb, in Quatzenheim, Alsace. At 58 years old, Jacob was 5'7" and had brown hair and blue eyes. He was living at 502 West 130 Street in New York City.

7. Jacob Arnold household, 1930 U.S. census, New York, New York, enumeration district [ED] 31-871, supervisor's district [SD] --, sheet 24, dwelling ---, family 432.

By 1930, Jacob at 61 was working as an elevator operator in an apartment house. Sophie remained at home which was on West 130th Street in New York City at this time. Only 5 months prior to the taking of this census their son Fred married and moved to Staten Island. Jacob and Sophie, now living alone, were still renting and did not own their home at this point.

This document shows that Jacob Arnold, widowed since 1941, was living at 1033 Hugenot Avenue in Staten Island. His birthplace is listed as France, but that he was at this point a citizen of the United States. His birthdate is listed as 4 July 1861 and lists his parents as Jacob Arnold and erroneously lists his mother's name as Marguerite "Albogact" rather than Marguerite Arbogast. He died just short of his 83rd birthday after having been ill and hospitalized for about 3 and a half months prior to his death.