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entire state of Tennessee in 1837, and Bishop Miles traveled on horseback throughout the state preaching in public buildings and organizing mis- sions. In 1845 he went to Rome in the interests of Ills diocese, and upon his return he established several churches, St. Mary's cathedral, the episco- pal residence and a charity hospital at Nashville. He also established a theological seminary, and several parocliial schools, haspitals and an orphan asylum. He represented his diocese in five tri- ennial councils at Baltimore, 1840-52. He died at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 21, 1860.

MILES, Samuel, soldier, was born in Mont- gomery county. Pa., March 11, 1740. In 1755 he enlisted in Capt. Isaac Wayne's regiment and was discharged in February, 1756, when he re-en- listed in Capt. Thomas Lloyd's company and was made captain-lieutenant in the expedition of General Forbes against Fort Duquesne in 1758, when it wjis evacuated and blown up. He was commissioned captain in 1760 and given com- mand of the forces at Presque Isle. He became a wine merchant in Philadelphia in 1761 ; was one of the wardens and manager of the House of Employ, 1766, and was a member of the general assembly, 1772-73. He raised a body of militia and was elected colonel of a regiment, 1774; was again a member of the assembly, 1775-76 and 1805 ; a member of the council of safety and colonel of the Pennsylvania rifle regiment, in 1776, and was sent to Sussex county, Del., to quell an insur- rection. He tendered liis command to congress and was placed in the flying camp and reached Washington's army in time to take part in the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776, where he was taken prisoner. During his imprisonment he was appointed brigadier-general of state forces, but upon his exchange in April, 1778, he was un- able to obtain his rank and retired from the army. He served as public auditor and deputy quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania, was judge of the high court of errors and appeals, 1783-87 ; a member of the council of censors of I*hiladel- phia, 1787-88 ; city councillor, 1788-89 ; alderman and member of the council of property, 1789-90, and mayor of Philadelphia, 1790. His son, John Miles, was graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1794 and became a lawyer in Phila- delphia. General Miles prepared a valuable paper on the battle of Ix>ng Island, which, with his autobiography written in 1802, was published in the American Historical Record (1873). He died in Chesterluim, Pa., Dec. 29, 1805.

MILES, William Porcher, representative, was born in Charleston, S.C, July 4, 1822 ; son of James and Sarah Miles. He attended Welling- ton school. Charleston ; graduated at the Col- lege of Charleston (valedictorian), A.B., 1842, A.M., 1845, and remained there as assistant pro-

fessor of mathematics. He was married June 2, 1846, to Betty, daughter of Oliver and Melinda (Caperton) Beirne, of Virginia. He was subse- quently admitted to the bar, and practised in Charleston. As mayor of Charleston, 1856-57, he introduced an improved police system, and a system of tidal drains for the city. He was a state rights Democratic representative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-60, and resigned in 1860 with the other representatives from South Caro- lina, and was a member of the South Carolina convention that adopted the ordinance of seces- sion, Dec. 20, 1860 ; a deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional congress at Montgomery, Ala., in February, 1861, and a representative from South Carolina in the Ist and 2d Confederate congresses, serving from Feb. 22, 1862, to March, 1864, when he resigned to accept a positiori of colonel on the staff of Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. He was presi- dent of the College of South Carolina, 1880-82, resigning in 1882 to take charge of sugar planta- tions in Louisiana which his wife had inherited. He died atBurnside, La., May 11, 1899.

MILEY, Jolin, educator, was born in Butler county, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1814. He was graduated at Augusta college, Kentucky, A.B., 1834, A.M., 1837, and entered the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1838. He was married to Olive C. Patterson of Batavia, Ohio, who died in 1874. He was pastor at Batavia and Cincinnati, 1838-39 ; at Hamilton, 1840 ; at Chilli- cothe, 1841-42 ; at Columbus, 1843-44 ; at Zanes- ville, 1845-46 ; of Wesley Chapel, Cincinnati, 1847 ; was professor at Wesley Female college, 1848-49, and pastor of Morris Chapel, Cincinnati, 1850-51. He then went to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was pastor of the Pacific Street church, 1852-53 ; the South Second Street church, 1854-55 ; and the Sands Street church, 1856-57 ; and he was sta- tioned at Danbury. Conn., 1858-59; at the For- syth Street church. New York city, 1860-61 ; at- Bridgeport and New Rochelle, N.Y., 1862-95; at Trinity church, Newburgh, N.Y., 1866-68 ; at Sing Sing, 1869-71 ; at St. Paul's, Peekskill, 1872- 73, and in 1873 became professor of systematic theology in Drew Theological seminary, Madison, N.J. He was a member of the general confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1864, 1872, 1876, 1888 and 1892 ; of the Centennial Methodist conference in 1884, where he presented a paper on the work of the Christmas Conference of 1784, and was a fraternal delegate to the gen- eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1887. He received the degree of D.D. in 1858 and LL.D. in 1881 from Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity. He is the author of The Atonement in Christ (1879); Systematic Theology (2 vols., 1892- 94). and contributions to church periodicals. He died at Madison, N.J., Dec. 13, 1896.