Miller, Armistead

Miller, Armistead a Presbyterian missionary of African parentage, was born in North Carolina about 1830. as a slave, but was liberated and went to Africa when a boy; was educated in the Alexander High School, Liberia, and afterwards returned to America, and received a theological training in the Ashmun Institute, Oxford, Pa. In 1859 he was licensed and ordained by New Castle Presbytery, and soon afterwards went to Africa, and became pastor of Mount Coffee Church, Liberia, where he died, January 15, 1865. — Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, page 131.