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Ebenezer Arnold
1816–1900
A 19th-century Methodist minister who turned family history into a moving religious narrative, he is remembered for preserving the story of his mother, Elizabeth Ward Arnold. His work offers a window into early American Methodism, faith, and family conflict in New England.
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Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er
by Ebenezer Arnold
About the author
Born in 1816, Ebenezer Arnold was a Methodist Episcopal minister who served in New York conference circles, including the Black River and Northern New York conferences. He is best known today as the author of Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter, a book centered on the life and faith of his mother, Elizabeth Ward Arnold.
That book, published in 1894 under the name "E. Ben. Ez-er," draws on family memory and religious history to tell the story of a woman whose conversion to Methodism led to rejection by her family. The result is part biography, part spiritual testimony, and part record of early New England Methodism.
Arnold died in 1900. Though not widely known as a literary figure, his surviving work remains of interest to readers of American religious history, memoir, and nineteenth-century Protestant life.