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 Seely Conkling Roscoe Seely Conkling Roscoe Seely Conkling (February 15, 1884 - September 14, 1956) was the Deputy New York Attorney General until 1919. He administered the draft laws in New York during World War I and World War II. He was born on February 15, 1884 in Paterson, New Jersey to William F. Conkling and Priscilla Mason of Northville, New York. He graduated from Amherst College in 1908. He was the Deputy New York Attorney General until 1919. After a long illness, he died on the night of September 14, 1956 at his apartment in the Irving Hotel in Manhattan, New