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Rocheport, Mo.
born November 17, 1798 Jebenhausen, Germany
died July 28, 1873 Rocheport, Mo.
Immigrated with his family from Jebenhausen, Germany, in 1839. The
family of five had left their home village on June 16 in a group of six
Jewish families. On their way to the French seaport of Le Havre they
were joined by others, mostly relatives, from Altenstadt (Bavaria),
Buttenhausen (Württemberg), and Heidelsheim (Baden). In Le Havre
this large company of Jewish emigrants split into groups of two or
three
families boarding an immigrant ship together. Isaac L. Arnold and his
family were joined by the Samuel Rosenheim family, also of Jebenhausen,
and the Lawrence Blumenthal family of Altenstadt. Their ship, the
"Emerald", arrived at the
port of New
York on August 19, 1839.
While Samuel Rosenheim established himself in Philadelphia and Lawrence
Blumenthal met his relatives in Chambersburg, Isaac L. Arnold joined
his brother Sandel and his cousin (and, at the same time,
brother-in-law) Simon Arnold in Mechanicsburg. By 1850 he was widowed
and had removed to Philadelphia. In later years he lived with his
daughter and son-in-law, Moses Barth, in Rocheport, Mo.
Isaac L. Arnold was a founding member of the Benevolent Society, which
administered the Jewish cemetery of Chambersburg, and in the mid-1840's
served as its secretary.
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