John P. Miller

Miller was the pastor of the Swedish M.E. Church of Moline. He was born September 4, 1866 in Sjösäter, Örtomta parish, Östergotland , Sweden . He immigrated to the US at the age of twenty. His parents Jonas Pehrsson, a farmer and his mother Anna Lovisa Johnsson never left Sweden . Miller livd in Des Moines for three years working at F.O. Wennerberg grocery firm. He left Des Moines in 1889 to study to become a minister. He entered the Swedish Theological Seminary at Evanston , he continued there for three years, and afterward took one year at Knox College , Galesburg.After graduatingfrom the Evanston institution in 1892 he was ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Moline in September of that year by Bishop R.S. Foster.

Before coming to Moline his pastorical duties included Kawanee, Victoria and Bloomington Rev. Miller married Hilda S. Eklund who was born Nov.10, 1872 in the city of Borås, Sweden.

Taken from “Swedes in Illinois