district state_senate death_place death_date predecessor birth_place party profession birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
15th illinois lockport , illinois 1900 charles h. bacon white creek , new york democrat merchant 14 february 1842 1890 john w. arnold
 1894 john w. arnold
john w. arnold

john william arnold -lrb- february 14 , 1842 -- 1900 -rrb- was an american politician from new york .
coming with his family to lockport , illinois , arnold worked in his father 's store until the outbreak of the civil war .
arnold served with the 4th regiment illinois volunteer cavalry and the chicago mercantile independent battery light artillery , eventually being captured and imprisoned at camp ford , texas .
after the war he ran his father 's store and was elected to two terms in the illinois senate .
he was later named a united states marshal .
