He also taught many daughters of the Southern aristocracy at the Live Oak Female Seminary in Gay Hill, Texas.
James Weston Miller was born on November 15, 1815, in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
[1][2] He served as assistant to Matthew Brown, the President of Jefferson College, his alma mater, in 1841.
[1] Meanwhile, he established the (now defunct) Live Oak Female Seminary in Gay Hill, where he taught many daughters of the Southern aristocracy.
[2][3][4][5] He was a minister to many blacks, included those on the Glenblythe Plantation owned by Thomas Affleck in Gay Hill.
[1] During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served as a Confederate chaplain under Brigadier General Thomas Neville Waul.
[1][2] Shortly after the war, he helped establish many Baptist and Methodist churches, cemeteries and schools for blacks.
[1] His private residence, Oak Lodge, also known as "the old Miller Home," was dedicated as a library-museum in 1933.