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Mont Amoena president, 1897-1902
Birth: 8 Jun 1872, Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C.
Death: 31 Jan 1939, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Parents:
Calvin J. Miller (1839-1885)
Jessie S. Ketchie Miller (1836-1881)
Spouse: Cora Lillian Patterson Miller (1872-1952)
Marriage: 1894, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina
Children:
Cora Louise Miller
Rev. Frank Henderson Miller (1899-1974)
Nellie Jones Miller
Ethel Roberta Miller
Education: North Carolina College, A.B. 1891; Gettysburg Seminary, 1894; Gettysburg College, Ph.D. 1896.
Ordination: 1894 by Maryland Synod. Calls: Grace-Lebanon-Salem, Rowan County, 1895-97; Holy Trinity, Mt. Pleasant, 1897-98; in Ohio, Georgia, (Holy Trinity, Wytheville, Va., 1916-17) and Pennsylvania, 1902-33.
Other: Principal, Mont Amoena Seminary, 1897-1902; President, Marion Junior College, 1913-16; Superintendent, Artman Home, Ambler, Pa., 1930-34; Secretary, North Carolina Synod, 1897-98; retired 1933.
Burial:
Greenlawn Cemetery
China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #189014663
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The Standard (Concord, NC), 9 Jan 1902, p. 1.
Dr. Miller’s Plans Changed
Rev. HN Miller asks us to say that developments have changed his plans and he will remain at Mont Amoena till the end of the session when his resignation takes effect.
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From Our Church Paper (New Market, VA), Vol. 32, No. 20, May 17, 1904, p. 2.
Rev. Henderson N. Miller, Ph. D., now pursuing a special course at the Chicago Seminary, has been called to the pastorate at Middle Point, Ohio, and has accepted. Dr. Miller was the former president of Mont Amoena Seminary, North Carolina. Thus is sung again the same old song. Even a post graduate course North opens the way to remaining there.
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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) 1 Feb 1939, 6
DR. H. N. MILLER DIES IN PENN.
Lutheran Minister Who Formerly Lived in This Section Passes In Philadelphia.
Word has been received here of the death in Philadelphia yesterday of Dr. Henderson N. Miller, Lutheran minister, who formerly lived in this section. Rev. R. L. Patterson of the city said he was informed that Dr. Miller died as the result of a stoke suffered last summer.
Dr. Miller, who was 67, was a native of Salisbury and was graduated from Mount Pleasant college in 1892. Later he attended Gettysburg seminary in Gettysburg, Pa. Dr. Miller was president of Mont Amoena academy of Mount Pleasant and later was president of Marion college of Marion, Va. He held pastorates in Rowan county, in Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
He is survived by his wife, a sister of Rev. Mr. Patterson, and the following children: Rev. Frank H. Miller of St. Petersburg, Pa., Mrs. Walter Bastow of Philadelphia, Miss Nellie Jones Miller of Norristown, Pa., and Miss Cora Louise Miller of Glenside, Pa.
The funeral service will be held Thursday at Melrose Park Lutheran church in Philadelphia, and interment will take place Saturday in China Grove.
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A Brief History of Marion College, By Goodridge Wilson, Jr.
Chapter III, 1910-1948
President Henderson Miller came to Marion from a fine pastorate in Columbus, Ohio. He was a man of scholarly habits, and at one time had been principal of Mount Amoena Seminary at Mount Pleasant, N. C. He brought with him a desire to make a real academic contribution, and the results of his efforts were quickly seen.
An organ was moved from Elizabeth College, North Carolina, to grace his new alma mater; and a picture of the instrument was promptly placed in the catalogue. This organ remained in use until 1948. Its history would itself be interesting reading.
Other improvements were made in laboratories, dormitories, and classrooms, and brave pictures thereof went inserted in the catalogue. They show an earnest effort to build a representative junior college. Though President Miller resigned in 1916 to return to the pastorate, he had made a fine contribution, and his resignation was accepted with deep regret.
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HISTORIC CAMDEN, PART ONE COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY, by THOMAS J. KIRKLAND AND ROBERT M. KENNEDY, CAMDEN, S. C. (1905) THE STATE PIER DAY SAINTS. Reprinted 1963, Kershaw County HISTORICAL SOCIETY Camden, S. C., p. 594-595. http://www.familysearch.com.
REV. HENDERSON NEIFFER MILLER, Ph.D. Doctor Miller, the son of Calvin J. and Jennie S. Miller, was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on June 8, 1872, and was baptized November 3, 1872, by Rev. J. G. Neiffer, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church of the same place. He was confirmed in this church by Rev. Charles B. King. Rev. Miller’s early education was received in the public schools of Salisbury, North Carolina College, Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, is his Alma Mater from which he received the degrees of A. B. and A.M. During his senior year he was tutor, and in the scholastic year after graduation he returned to college as an assistant instructor and post – graduate student. but ill health compelled him to relinquish this work before the middle of the session. In January 1891 , he entered Gettysburg Theological Seminary, graduating in 1894. While a student in the seminary he began a post – graduate course in Pennsylvania College which he later finished in absentia, receiving the degree Ph.D. He was ordained by the Maryland Synod at Frostburg, Maryland, in 1894.
His first pastorate was a mission at Brunswick , Maryland. Later Doctor Miller spent a summer at the University of Chicago studying Hebrew and pursued the fourth – year course in the Chicago Theological Seminary, receiving the degree of B. D. Doctor Miller has been pastor at Brunswick, Maryland; Manning, North Carolina; Middlepoint, Ohio; First English Lutheran Church, Columbus, Ohio; Wytheville, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; and is now (1919) pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Doctor Miller has been an educator as well as a pastor. For five years he was president of Mount Amoena Female Seminary, Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, and for three years president of Marion College, Marion, Virginia. During the world war Doctor Miller was camp pastor at Camp Wheeler, a training camp at Macon, Georgia. He was married in 1894 to Cora L. Patterson, China Grove, North Carolina, who has always been a great help in every pastorate he has served. Four children bless this union, three daughters and a son .
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