Roscoe Arbuckle a feature film. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887, in Smith Center, Kansas, one of nine children of Mary E. "Mollie" Gordon (d. February 19, 1898) and William Goodrich Arbuckle. He weighed in excess of at birth and, as both parents had slim builds, his father believed the child was not his. Consequently, he named the baby after a politician (and notorious philanderer) whom he despised, Republican senator Roscoe Conkling of New York. The birth was traumatic for Mollie and resulted in chronic health problems that contributed to her death 12 years later. When Arbuckle was nearly
Mabel Conkling Conkling was presented to musician Walter Damrosch in 1933, both presentations by the New York Federation of Women's Clubs. Conkling was president of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1926 to 1928. She was still on the board when the organization changed its name to the National Association of Women Artists in 1941. Conkling was also president of the Maine Women's Club of New York. In 1901 Mabel Viola Harris married a fellow artist, David Paul Burleigh Conkling. They had two daughters, Pauline and Natalie. She was widowed in 1926, sold her four-story Greenwich Village residence and