Rev. George I. Miles
Husband Rev. George I. Miles 1
Born: 26 Apr 1802 - Milesburg, Centre Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: 10 Dec 1857 - Muscatine, Muscatine Co, IA 1 Buried:
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.
1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: 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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