Abiel Holmes

Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1803.

Holmes was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813,[2] and also served as its corresponding secretary from 1816 to 1828.

[3] In 1816, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

[4] Amid a theological controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism, Holmes resigned from the ministry in 1831 and the church chose a Unitarian minister to replace him.