Carothers, Milton Stover

Milton Stover Carothers (1932-2004) of Tallahassee, Fla., was a Presbyterian minister who worked for significant periods of time in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. A 1954 graduate of Florida State University, he held pastorates in Salisbury, N.C., 1958-1963, and Covington, Va., 1963-1969, and served in campus ministries at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, for 17 years, at Florida State University.

Milton Stover Carothers (1932-2004) of Tallahassee, Fla., was a progressive southern Presbyterian minister who worked for significant periods of time in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. He graduated from Florida State University, where he was president of the student body, and was subsequently elected permanent class president of the Class of 1954. He received his master’s of divinity at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Over the course of his life, Carothers held pastorates in Salisbury, N.C., 1958-1963, and Covington, Va., 1963-1969; he was also a University Chaplain at Duke University and University Minister at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Eventually, he returned to Florida, where he served as Presbyterian campus minister at Florida State University for 17 years.

Milton Carothers was married first to Mary Lou Carothers and then to Sally Carothers. He had two sons, Milton Washington Carothers and James Higginbotham, and two daughters, Sarah Jane Carothers and Lea Carothers Crusberg.