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Thompson (HUGH MILLER an American)

HUGH MILLER, an American clergyman; born in County Londonderry, Ireland, June 5, 1830; was graduated at the Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wis., in 1852; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1856, and was Professor of Church History at the Nashotah Theological Seminary and editor of the "American Churchman," Chicago, in 1860-1870. He held the rectorship of Christ Church, New York City, in 1871-1875, and that of Trinity, New Orleans, in 1876-1883. He was consecrated Bishop of Mississippi in 1887. Dr. Thompson was the author of "Unity and Its Restoration" (1859); "Sin and (1872); "The World and the Kingdom" (1888); "The World and the Wrestlers" (1895); "More Copy" (1897). He died at Jackson, Miss., Nov. 17, 1902.