Seth Arnold
Seth Shaler Arnold was born in 1788 in Westminster, Vermont, and educated at Deerfield Academy and Middlebury College. He served in the war of 1812 and studied for the ministry for several years before becoming a clergyman in Alstead, New Hampshire. Returning to Westminster to help his aged father, he continued his ministerial career by acting as a "supply" or interim pastor, and occasional preacher, mixing it with various farming enterprises. Arnold had three wives and four daughters.