Biographical Details
Date of Birth: March 22, 1818
Birth Location: Chester District, SC, USA
Graduation Year(s): 1842
Degree(s) Earned: Bachelors
Date of Death: October 11, 1871
Death Location: Monmouth, IL, USA
Samuel Millen
Life Experience
Samuel Millen was born on Easter Sunday in 1818. He was educated at a Chester District public school. He lived in South Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky, before moving to Bloomington to attend college in 1838. He graduated from IU in 1842. His lifelong occupation was as a minister of the Gospel in the United Presbyterian Church. He held the position of pastor for the Shiloh Congregation in Indiana for three years, in Clayton, Indiana, for seven years, and for Smith Creek in Illinois for fifteen years. He was prominent in the movement to establish Illinois’ Monmouth College in the 1850s and was connected with the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War.
Marriage and Family
In 1846, Millen married Mary Wier. His namesake son, Samuel Rutherford Millen, was a medical doctor; his grandson, William Millen, was a minister in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
References
- Wylie
- Findagrave.com
- Indiana University Alumni Quarterly 1920 (#7)
- usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/
- Monmouth Review 06/20/1906
- Monmouth Review 11/26/1906