Robert Whitfield Miles

Background

Miles, Robert Whitfield was born on October 5, 1890 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Robert Walton and Ida (Kates) M.: student Richmond College, 1907-1908, Bachelor of Arts, Davidson College, 1911.

Education

Union Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1914-1917. Bachelor of Divinity, Washington and Lee University, 1930 (honorary Doctor of Divinity).

Career

Instructor Highland Park High School, Richmond, Virginia, 1912-1914. Assistant pastor First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1920-1921. Pastor Presbyterian Church, Auburn, Alabama, 1921-1925.

University secretary, Presbyterian Church of the United States, 1926.

Pastor Westminster Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1927-1933. Pastor First Church, Lexington, Kentucky, since 1933.

Moderator Synod of Kentucky (United States), 1942.

Achievements

• Robert Whitfield Miles has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Young Men's Christian Association, Camp Jackson and France, 1917-1919. Trustee Centre College, Sayre College. Member Kappa Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Mason.

Clubs: Lexington Country, Informal (Lexington).

Connections

Married Dorothy Ankeney Moomaw, December 6, 1917. Children: Robert Whitfield, Marian (Morris), Edward West., Matilda Cary (deceased).

Father:

Robert Walton M.:

Mother:

Ida (Kates) M.:

Spouse:

Dorothy Ankeney Moomaw

child:

Marian Miles (Morris)

child:

Matilda Cary Miles (deceased)

child:

Edward West. Miles

child:

Robert Whitfield Miles