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
Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr. Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr. Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr. (May 20, 1847 – April 15, 1923) was longtime a federal judge in New York. Coxe was born in Auburn, New York on May 20, 1847. His legal career began with private practice in Utica from 1868. In 1870 he entered the firm of Conkling, Holmes & Coxe, of Utica, composed of Roscoe Conkling, then United States Senator, ex-Judge Sidney T. Holmes, and Mr. Coxe. He continued in private practice to 1882. He also served as manager of a state hospital in Utica 1880 to 1882. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur