Arthur Elwin Main

Background

Main, Arthur Elwin was born on August 23, 1846 in Adams Centre, New York, United States. Son of Daniel C. and Harriet R. Main.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1869, Master of Arts, 1870. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1872. Doctor of Divinity, Milton College, Wisconsin, 1885.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Salem College, West Virginia, 1910.

Career

Ordained Seventh Day Baptist ministry, 1871. Pastor Ashaway, Rhode Island, 1871-1880. Correspondent secretary Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society and editor missionary periodicals, 1879-1893.

President Alfred University, 1893-1895.

Missionary southern Rhode Island, 1895-1896. Pastor at Plainfield, New Jersey, 1896-1901.

Dean and professor theology, Alfred Theological Seminary, since 1901. Founded the Helping Hand, 1885.

Editor Jubilee Papers, 1892.

Author: Bible Studies on the Sabbath Question, 1910. The Book of Job; The New Psychology, Behaviorism, and Christian Experience, 1931. Address: Alfred, New New York

Achievements

• Arthur Elwin Main has been listed as a noteworthy theologian by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Lucie East. Carr, October 6, 1875. Children: (by first marriage) George T. (deceased), (by second marriage) Daniel Carr, George Arthur.

Father:

Daniel C.

Mother:

Harriet R. Main

Spouse:

Lucie East. Carr

child:

George Arthur Main

child:

(by first marriage) George T. (deceased) Main

child:

(by second marriage) Daniel Carr Main