George B. Louis (George Byron Louis) Arner

George Byron Louis Arner was an American author and researcher whose best-known surviving work is Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population, originally published in 1908. That study examined marriages between relatives in the United States and has remained accessible through later reprints and digital preservation.

Available memorial records identify him as having been born on October 5, 1883, in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, and as having died on April 21, 1952, in Washington, D.C. He was buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Jefferson, linking both the beginning and end of his life to his Ohio roots.

The online record for Arner is fairly sparse, so many details of his career and personal life are not easy to confirm from reliable sources. Even so, his surviving publication shows him as part of an era when scholars were using statistics and social research to study family life and population patterns in America.