Benjamin W. Arnett

Biography:

Benjamin W. Arnett was an African-American educator minister bishop and elected official. He was born a free man in 1838 in Brownsville Pennsylvania where he taught school from 1859 to 1867. In his youth Arnett lost a leg to an infection suffered after an ankle injury while working on a steam boat between 1857-58. As a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Arnett served parishes in Toledo Cincinnati and Columbus; under his leadership St.