[Gutenberg 12376] • Thirty Years in the Itinerancy

Reverend Wesson Gage Miller (1822-1893/4) was a Methodist clergyman born in Otsego County, N.Y.. In 1844 he moved to Wisconsin where he was appointed Methodist missionary at the Brothertown Indian Mission, and in 1845 was assigned to the Green Lake Mission. In 1850 he became pastor of the Spring Street Church in Milwaukee. He was presiding elder of the Fond du Lac district (1852-1855), held pastorates in Racine (1855-1856) and Janesville (1856- 1859), and was presiding elder for the Milwaukee district (1859-1863) where he continued to preach until 1865. During the Civil War, he served on the Christian Commission (1865), preaching to General Grant's army. He was again presiding elder at Fond du Lac (1865- 1869), and was pastor at Ripon (1869-1871) and at Milwaukee (1871-1874). He was the author of Thirty Years in the Itinerancy (1875). In 1879 he was transferred to Nebraska, where he died.