Arthur Holbrook Wellman (October 30, 1855 – August 24, 1948) was a member of the Massachusetts General Court and a professor at Boston University School of Law.

[2] Joshua was a Congregational church pastor and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Puritan Thomas Wellman, who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1640.

Arthur delivered the valedictory upon graduation from Amherst College in 1878.

He married Jennie Louisa Faulkner in Malden on October 11, 1887.

[1] He spent his later years in Topsfield, Massachusetts and died at his home there on August 24, 1948.