Job Smith Mills

Background

Mills, Job Smith was born on February 28, 1848 in near Plymouth, Ohio, United States. Son of Lewis and Ann Mills.

Education

Preparatory education Bartlett Academy, Plymouth, O. Graduate Illinois Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Philosophy. Educated for ministry under private teachers.

(Master of Arts, Otterbein University, 1884. Doctor of Divinity, Westfield College and Lebanon Valley College.

1890; Doctor of Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1893.

Doctor of Laws, Lebanon Valley College, 1904).

Career

Pastor of Otterbein University, 1874-1880, 1885-1887. Professor of English literature and rhetoric 3 years. Of philosophy 1 year, president and professor philosophy 2 years, Western College, Toledo.

Iowa, 1887-1893.

Bishop U.B. Church, 1893—1909. Visited the university of Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Jena, Oxford and Cambridge, 1897. Traveled in Europe, Africa and Asia, 1903-1904.

Author: Mission Work in West Africa, 1898.

Manual of Family Worship, 1900. Holiness, 1902. Home: Annville, Pennsylvania

Achievements

• Job Smith Mills has been listed as a noteworthy bishop, religious studies professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Sarah Ann Metzger, 1870. Married second, Mary Keister, 1876.

Father:

Lewis Mills

Mother:

Ann Mills

Spouse:

Mary Keister

Spouse:

Sarah Ann Metzger