Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-06
VILLAGE MOURNS
FOR DR.. ARNOLD
South Orange Offices to Be
Closed Saturday for Ed
ucator's Funeral.

rags nave been set at halI-mast
In South Orange out of respect to the
memory of Dr. Joseph M, Arnold.
noted educator. lawyer and official,
who died at o'clock last night at
his home 70 Third street. that viii
lage. following an illness of about
three weeks.
Death was due to a complication Of
heart, kidney and liver ailments.
Village President Francis Speir is
sued orders TODAY that all municipal
business be suspended in South Or
ange all day Saturday. the day on
which the funeral will be held. All
of the municipal offices will be closed.
The Village Hall is being draped in
mourning.
Funeral services will be held at 10
o'clock Saturday morning In the
chapel of the Immaculate Conception,
at Seton Hall College, South Orange.
The solemn high mass of requiem will
be celebrated by members of the col
lege faculty. with which Dr. Arnold
had been affiliated for the last nine
teen years.
Although he had been iii for three
weeks, the nature of his ailment was
not believed to be serious until last
Friday. Following a grave attack on
that day he again rallied. He suf-
fered a relapse on Tuesday. however.
and grew steadily worse. He mad
been attended almost hourly since his
illness became critical by Drs. Francis
e. Knowles and Mefford Runyon
Born at Munchen-G iadhach, Ger
nanu fortu-aiph4 vaarc aQn. DR.. Ar
mold came to this country at the age
of eleven years, first settling In the
South. For a time he made his nome
ut New Orleans, La. He attended 81.
Joseph's College, Spring Hi, Ala,
from which he was graduated and re-
ceived the PHI d. degree in 1892. He
later taught at the Spring Hill insti-
tuition. Returning to Europe, DR.. AT
mold studiedeat the College Of the Inn
maculate Conception at Dublin. Ire.
land, earning the degree of doctor OF
philosophy there In 1898 he added the
LII. B. degree. graduating from the
New York Law School.
Seton Hall honored her faithful pro-
fessor by comforting the LII. ID degree
on hin. at the golden jubilee celebra-
ton of the South Orange institution
in June 1906. DIR. Arnold became q
professor at Seton Hall in 1895. He
remained instructor In mathematics
at the college until taken. III. He
ranked with the best of mathemati-
clans. He was a lover of athletics
and took an unusual interest in the
various athletic teams which repre-
scented Setonia for many years back.
DR.. Arnold probably taught more of
the present-day clergymen In the
Roman Catholic diocese of Newark
than any other individual. He was
the oldest member of the Seton Hall
College faculty In point of service,
having taught mathematics at the
college for the last nineteen years.
Besides being q professor at Seton
Hall he was collector of taxes in
South Orange and a member and Sec
rotary of the Village Board of Asses
sors.
He was treasurer of the South Or
ange Building and Loan Association,
having served In that capacity for
seven years. He was an orator and
stumped the State three years ago for
Vivian NJ. Lewis for Governor and
Louis Aronson for mayor of this city.
| DR.. Arnold has served in official
| life in South Orange since 1906. He
was first elected member of the
Village Board of Trustees, but, after
having served In that capacity for a
brief period, resigned to accept the
pos ton of collector of taxes He was
med to fill the vacancy In that
office caused by the death of Charles
J. Barrett. In 1907, when the Peoples
party obtained control of the munich
pal government, DIR. Arnold was APP
pointed tax assessor
He continued in both offices until
O year ago, when the Village Board
of Trustees, following the adoption of
til hwy hn
abolished the office of assessor and
appointed a board of three assessors.
He was a former village treasurer
and at one time served as overseer of
poor in South Orange. DR. Arnold
was selected as one of the three MEM
bers of the board of assessors. and
later selected as secretary of the as
sessment body.
Overwork is believed by those
closely i'd ntified with DR.. Arnold to
have hsstened his death. After teach
ing at Seton Hall every school day
from o'clock in the morning until
3:3" In the afternoon, he went to the
South Orange Village Hall and full
filed his duties as collector and as
SCISSOR. He spent many nights during
the last few months at meetings of
the ass ssment board in the Village
Hell, because of a complete revision
of all the South Orange assessments
by that body.
Night meetings were necessary. in
order to give property-owners ample
hearings This gave the official ad-
ditiona' work, and besides his duties
as an officer in the building and loan
association required much of his time.
He also rave rrivate lessons to pupils
at his residence during spare time.
Dr. Arnold was a lawyer being ad.
m'tted to the bar In New York state.
Right Rev. Monsignor James f.
Mooney, president of Seton Hall Col
lege, was shocked when he learned Of
the death. "Dr. Arno,d's death Is
very great loss to Seton Hall" said
Monsignor Mooney" In paying a
tribute to the dead teacher and ofi-
c.al the head OF the college said:
"He was a man of culture. He was
an excellent Latinist and was ac-
quainted with several Of the modern
languages. DR.. Arnold was a faith
full teacher. He was known, naturally,
to a very large body of students,
whom he taught at Seton Hall. many
of them priests in the active ministry
in this diocese They will all he
shocked and saddened to learn of his
death"
The deceased is survived by a
widow and five small children. The
children are Agnes. Victor, Joseph,
jr,, Martha and Anthony. DR.. Arnold
was a member of the Church of Our
Lady of Sorrows. South Orange.