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
Roscoe P. Conkling was awarded an honorary degree from William Jewell College in 1954. Conkling married Mildred Scott in 1914, and they had two daughters. He had a heart attack and died on his way to St. Mary's Hospital on October 28, 1954 in Jefferson City, Missouri. Roscoe P. Conkling Roscoe Powers Conkling (May 3, 1889 – October 28, 1954) was a Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1947 to 1954, including a period as Chief Justice. Conkling was born on May 3, 1889 in Carrollton, Missouri to Virgil Marcellus Conkling (1865-1912) and Alpha Ann Powers (1866-1951). He attended school there and,