John Andrew Miller diary

John Andrew Miller diary

Author: Miller, John Andrew, 1832-1912.

Year: 1856

Rev. John Andrew Miller diary, MCLC Misc. Mss. 240. Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections, Shreveport, Louisiana. Finding aid: http://archive.centenary.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=144 Scope and Contents of the Materials: Rev. John Andrew Miller’s diary documents his personal and professional life as a pastor in the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South from October 1856 to August 1859. Many entries contain information about Miller’s congregations (their size, attendance rate, and spiritual condition), traveling to visit specific members of his churches, preparing sermons, interacting with other Methodist ministers, corresponding with family and friends in Mississippi, and noting the weather. The majority of the diary (approximately 100 pages dated October 1856 to February 1857) was written while Miller served as pastor of the New Orleans Circuit. The circuit consisted of a church at Laurel Street (New Orleans, La.) as well as congregations in the nearby communities of Carrollton, Gretna, and Algiers. Miller writes about performing baptisms, tending to the sick and dying, and visiting the office of the New Orleans Christ