Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. George I. Miles




Husband Rev. George I. Miles 1

           Born: 26 Apr 1802 - Milesburg, Centre Co, PA 1
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           Died: 10 Dec 1857 - Muscatine, Muscatine Co, IA 1
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         Father: John Miles (1778-1829) 1 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2





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General Notes: Husband - Rev. George I. Miles


He was licensed by the Milesburg, Pennsylvania, Church in 1826, serving it as pastor subsequently. He was for a while pastor at Harrisburg and in Philadelphia, and then resided in Bellefonte, keeping a drug-store, until June 1, 1856, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Muscatine, Iowa, and died there.

"He was a fine speaker, sweet singer, and an untiring laborer." Author of "A Glance at the Baptists," written while pastor of the Baptist Church at West Chester, 1836, a condensed history of the Baptists in all the centuries covered by ecclesiastical history as relates to the denomination.

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Sources


1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 214.

2 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 572.


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