Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-28
REV. H. R. MILES OF HARTFORD
VIII he the Next Pastor Of the Cohg'e
gatIonal Church Of Breuleboro--e
Ia Of Vermont Descent.

VIII Be the Next Pastor OF the No"S
gntIonal Church Of Brattleboro---he
Is of Vermont Descent.
Rev. Harry r. Miles, pastor OF the
Windsor Avenue Congregational churcn
of Hartford, Conn, to whom the Cohgre-
pationa church and society OF Brattleooro
extended a call last Friday, as is told else,
where in this paper, has formally accepted
the call, and he will take up the WORK In
Brattleboro about June l. Friends OF tne
Brattleboro church learned several weeks
ago that Rev. Mr.. Miles had decided 10
leave Hartford, and the committee appoint
ed by the church and society TO select
pastor were Immediately notified. Mem
bers of the committee went TO Hartford TO
hear Rev. Mr.. Miles preach and they at
once concluded that he was the man lor
the Brattleboro church. Rev. Mr.. Miles
accepted an invitation to preach in Brat
tleboro April 9, and the vote to extend 10
him a call to the Brattleboro pastorate was
the result.
Rev. Mr.. Miles read his resignation from
the pastorate at Hartford last Sunday, 10
take effect May l, and asked the church
and the ecclesiastical society TO join WIN
him in calling a council to dissolve the re-
lations of pastor and people. The reason
for the resignation was that physicians had
advised that his family could no longer en-
Joy health in Hartford, and that much TO
his regret he was forced to the step. After
the resignation had been read Mr.. Miles
said that three physicians had been con-
suited and that all had agreed upon the
one thing, that Mrs. Miless health could
only he regained by leaving the city. The
call he had Just received from Brattleboro
/ 90 oil i1opfipal N
salary and opportunities as the Windsor
avenue church, and it was in no sense
| promotion to accept the call.
Mr.. Miles was settled over the Wind
sor avenue church three years ago last
February, going from the United church
| in New Haven, where he was assistant
pastor to the Rev. DR.. T. T. Munger.
He has been eminently successful in the
pastorate, the church and congregation
growing continually under his charge, and
the relations of pastor and people have
been mutually satisfactory.
The Hartford Courant said editorially
Monday: 1.-THE acceptance of call from
Brattleboro, VT, by the Rev. Il. r. Miles
of the Windsor avenue Congregational
church, means distinct loss. to Hartford.
Mr.. Miles, while the youngest Congrega-
tional clergyman in the city, has filed a
large place in progressive movements for
the betterment of the community, and
has, as preacher and a man of sound
practical sense, and that sense finely edu-
Gated and developed, been one of the
forces for good in Hartford. Brattleboro
is decidedly the gamer in the transaction
which takes him from this CITY,"
Rev. Mr.. Miles's father was a Vermont
man who moved with his parents from
| Woodstock to Wisconsin Rev. Mr. Miles
was born in Wisconsin and he received his
early schooling there. He graduated from
Harvard in 1888, after which he spent
! year in business IN Wisconsin and then
took course at the Yale divinity school,
! graduating in 1892. He then spent two
years in graduate study, one at Yale and
the second in the universities of Berlin
and Halle, Germany.
His first ministerial experience was three
months work during a seminary vacation
in Tunbridge, this state. For three and
one-half years he was assistant pastor in
! DR.. I. T. Munger's church in New Haven,
Conn. Rev. and Mrs. Miles have one
child, a daughter.