Miller, Samuel J. (Samuel Jefferson), 1919-1999
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Samuel Jefferson Miller was born in Harrison, Ohio, on August 7, 1919, to Monford Leroy Miller and Grace G. Amos. He was the youngest of four children, the others being John, Virginia, and Helen.
Miller graduated from high school in Carrollton, Ohio, in 1937. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1941 and was honorably discharged on September 26, 1941. In the early 1940's, Miller taught at several schools in Ohio. He received both his Bachelor of Science in Education (1941) and M.S. (1947) from Ohio State University and attended Brown University from 1948-1950 where he earned a Ph.D. in history. Miller was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Strasbourg in 1950-1951 and received a Teacher's Certificate in Social Studies for Secondary School teaching from the University of the State of New York on August 14, 1952.
Miller was a university fellow at Brown University for a year before he assumed a faculty position at Boston College as a history instructor in 1952. He received a fellowship to study in Mainz, Germany in the late 1950s. Miller became an Assistant Professor in 1955, Associate Professor in 1959, and full Professor in 1981. He studied and wrote about the religious and intellectual history of Europe and the Ecumenical Movement. Miller died in Roslindale, Massachusetts on January 30, 1999 at age 79.
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Subjects:
- College professors
- Ecumenical movement
- Fulbright scholars
- Historians
- Christian union
Occupations:
- History Professor
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- OH, US
- MA, US
- Europe (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
