Background
Ayres, Milan Church was born on May 17, 1850 in Lewiston, Illinois, United States. Son of Lorenzo Dow and Lucy (Trowbridge) Ayres.
Ayres, Milan Church was born on May 17, 1850 in Lewiston, Illinois, United States. Son of Lorenzo Dow and Lucy (Trowbridge) Ayres.
Student Kansas State Agricultural College, 1864-1866. Bachelor of Divinity, Yale, 1879. Graduate National School Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia, 1876.
Post-graduate course Yale Division School, 1880-1881.
2 sons, Leonard Porter, Milan Valentine. Ordained Congleton ministry. Home missionary preacher in Kansas, 1872-1876.
Pastor Southington, Connecticut, 1880-1884.
Journalist and stenographic law reporter, Boston, 1884-1890. Editor Boston Daily Advertiser, 1890-1903, then in journalistic work, lecturing and management real estate investments.
Has been editorial writer for the Boston Transcript, New York Press. Christian Union and its successor The Outlook.
Author: Phillips Brooks in Boston (with introduction by President Tucker of Dartmouth College), 1893.
Home: Washington, District of Columbia Deceased.
Married Georgiana Gall, December 24, 1871.