Arnett, William W, Dd
Arnett, William W., D.D.
a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born in Marion County, Va., April 14, 1815. In early life he studied medicine, arid afterwards was a Methodist preacher, but became an Episcopalian, and was ordained in 1839. Having officiated at Circleville and Dayton, O., he became rector of the Church of the Mediator, Philadelphia; and in November, 1852, he accepted the rectorstiip of St. Paul's parish, Milwaukee, Wis. His health failing in September, 1856, he resigned, and in the summer of 1857 became rector of Emanuel parish, Cumberland, Md., where he remained until-his death, which occurred April 21, 1859. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1859, p. 352.