History of Plymouth, (Huron County) Ohio United States of America

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Job Smith Mills, bishop of the United Brethren in Christ, was born near Plymouth, Ohio, Feb. 28,1848; son of Lewis and Ann (Smith) Mills, and grandson of Gideon Mills. He attended Bartlett academy, Plymouth, and was prepared for the ministry under private tutors. He was pastor of Otterbein university, 1874-80 and 1885-87, and was at Western college, Toledo, Ohio, as professor of English literature and rhetoric, 1887-90, professor of philosophy and president, 1890-92, and professor of philosophy, 1892-93. He was graduated from Illinois Wesleyan university, Ph.B. 1892, Ph.D. 1894. He was elected bishop of the United Brethren in Christ in 1893. He was twice married, first in 1870, to Sarah Ann Metzger of Chesterfield, Ohio, and secondly, in 1876, to Mary Keister of Scottdale, Pa. In 1896 he travelled in Western Africa, and in 1897 visited the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Jena, Oxford and Cambridge. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Otterbein university in 1884; that of D.D. by Westfield college and Lebanon Valley college in 1890, and that of LL.D. by Lane university in 1897. He was made a corresponding member of the Iowa Academy of Science and a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is the author of: Mission Work in West Africa (1898); Manual of Family Worship (1900); Essence of Christianity (1894); Outline of Sociology (1895); Some Difficulties in Cosmic Evolution (1896).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Plymouth, (Huron County) Ohio

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