The Biographical Dictionary of America/Arnold, Albert Nicholas

ARNOLD, Albert Nicholas, clergyman, was born at Cranston, R. I., Feb. 12, 1814. He was graduated from Brown university in 1838 with the degree of A.M., and at the Newton theological institution 1841. He had pastoral charge of the First Baptist church at Newburyport, Mass., from 1841 to 1843. From 1844 to 1855 he was employed in missionary work in Greece, and during 1856-1857 filled the chair of ecclesiastical history at the Newton theological seminary. In 1858 he accepted a call to Westboro, Mass., where he remained until 1864, resigning to become professor of Biblical criticism and pastoral theology at the Hamilton literary and theological institution. He held the chair of New Testament Greek at the Baptist theological seminary, Chicago, from 1869 to 1873. In 1875 he was made trustee of Brown university. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the university of Rochester in 1860. He wrote "Prerequisites to Communion" (1860); and "One Woman's Mission" (1871). He died in Cranston, R. I., Oct. 11, 1883.