sentences:  Roscoe 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 his father believed that he was illegitimate, as both parents had slim builds.Consequently, he named him after Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, a notorious philanderer whom he despised.