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and church government there, 1813-49, and pro- fessor emeritus, lb49-50. He was commissioned by Governor Tompkins chaplain of the Ist regfi- ment of the New York artillery in April, 1809.

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He made strong efforts to promote peace between the two factions of the Presbyterian church. He declined the presidency of the University of North Carolina and of Hamilton college in 1812. He was a trustee of Columbia college, 1806-13, an<l of the College of New Jersey, 1807-50. He became a member of the American Philosophical society in 1800; a corresponding member of the Philosophical society of Manchester, England, 1804; a founder in 1804 and corresponding sec- retary of the New York Historical society, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts and New Jersey Historical societies. He received the lionorary degree A.M. from Yale and the College of New Jersey in 1793, D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and Union college in 1804, and from the University of North Carolina in 1811, and LL.D. from Washington college, Maryland, in 1847. He published over forty political and religious pamphlets including Fourth of July Oration before Tammany Society (1793); Oration before the Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves (1797); and he is the author of A Brief Retrospect of the ISth Century (2 vols., 1803); Let- ters on the CoiUftitntion and Order of the Christian Ministry {\S07), with a Continuation (1809); Me- moir of the Rev. John Rodgers (1813); Ijettera (m Unitarianism{\%2\); Letters on the Eternal Son- ship of Christ (1825): Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits (1827): An Essay onthe Warra7it^ Na- ture and Duties oftlie Office of the Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church (1831); Letters to Pres- byterians on the Present Crisis in the Presbyterian Churcli in the United States (1833); Infant Bap- tism (1834); Presbyterianism, the Truly Primitive and Apostolical Constitution of the Church of Christ (1835); Life of Jonathan Edwards atid of David Brainerd (reprint, 1837); Memoir of the Rev. Charles Nesbit, D.D. (1840); The Primitive and Apostolic Order of the Church of Christ Vin- dicated (1840); Letters from a Father to his Sons Vn. — 26

in College (1843); A Sermon on the Riding Elder- ships in the Presbyterian Church, with an Ap- pendix (1843); Tfioughtson Public Prayer (lbi\i). He died in Princeton, N.J., Jan. 7, 1850.

niLLERf Samuel, clergyman, was born at Princeton, N.J., Jan. 23, 1816; son of the Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Sergeant) Miller. His uncle, Dr. Edward Miller (1760-1812) was, with Drs. Smith and Mitchell, founder of the Medical Re- pository, New York, 1797, and was professor of medicine in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, 1807. Samuel was graduated at the Col- lege of New Jersey, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1836; was tutor there, 1835-36; studied law, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and practised there until 1841, when he entered Princeton Theological seminary. He was graduated in 1844; was or- dained evangelist by the presbytery of New Brunswick, Oct. 5, 1844; was stated supply at Mount Holly, N.J., 1845-50, and pastor there, 1850-73; also served as a stated supply at Colum- bus, 1845-65, and at Tuckerton and Bass River, N.J., 185S-62, and was pastor at Oceanic, 1880- 83. He was principal of the West Jersey Collegi- ate institute at Mount Holly, 1845-57. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1864, and was a director of the Princeton Theological seminary, 1869-83. His brother, Elihu Spencer (1817-1879), was a well known lawyer, law editor and author in Philadel- phia. Dr. Miller published a i2epor^o/^/i€ JVe«by- terian Church Ca^e (1840), and Life and Writings of the Rev. Samuel Miller, his father (2 vols., 1869). He died at Mount Holly, N. J., Oct. 12, 1883.

MILLER* Samuel A., geologist, was born in Coolville, Athens county, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1836. He attended Ohio university and the Cincinnati Law school; practised law in Cincinnati, 1860 and 1862-97; and edited a paper at Marietta, Ohio, 1861-62. He began the study of geology in early manhood, made important original re- searches, and collected many rare fossils and geo- logical specimens and also a valuable scientific library. He was a member of the geological commissions of Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri. He received from Ohio university the degree of Ph.D. "for merit" in 1893. He contributed many articles to scientific magazines and to the proceedings of scientific societies, and is the author of: Noi'th American Geology and Paleontology; Paleozoic Fossils; Mesozoic Fos- sils; Zenoic Fossils, on which subjects he was a recognized authority. He died in Cincinnati. Ohio, Dec. 19, 1897.

MILLER, Samuel Freeman, justice, was born in Richmond, Ky., April 7, 1816. His father re- moved to Kentucky from Reading, Pa., in 1812, and he was brought up on the farm, and first attended the Richmond schools in 1828. In 1836,