Background
Biddle, Arney Sylvenus was born on June 12, 1848 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonathan (Doctor of Medicine and Mary Jane (Bruce) B.
Biddle, Arney Sylvenus was born on June 12, 1848 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonathan (Doctor of Medicine and Mary Jane (Bruce) B.
Brother of Henry Chalmers B. Bachelor of Arts, Monmouth College, Illinois, 1872. Studied theology at Monmouth, Newburg (New York), and Allegheny (Pennsylvania) seminars.
(Doctor of Divinity, Muskingum College, 1901. Doctor of Laws, Ashland College, 1902).
Ordained United Presbyterian ministry, 1875. Pastor Cabin Hill Church, Delaware County, New York, 1875-1879, First Church, Jersey City, 1879-1882, Summit Avenue Church, Jersey City, since 1882. Stated clerk New York Presbytery, 1879-1906, United Presbyterian Synod of New York, since 1894, United Presbyterian Presbytery of New Jersey, October 18, since 1906.
Director of Allegheny Theological Seminary, 1890-1893.
Home: Jersey City, New Jersey.
Married Anna Jane Fraser, December 28, 1876.