About James Miller McKim
Lived 1810 – 1874 (aged 63). James Miller McKim was an American cleric and abolitionist.
James Miller McKim (November 10, 1810 – June 13, 1874) was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He was the father of the architect Charles Follen McKim.
Biography McKim was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1810. He was educated at Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary.
In 1835, he was ordained as pastor of a Presbyterian church in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. A few years before, the perusal of a copy of Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization had inspired him to become an abolitionist. He was a member of the convention that formed the American Anti-slavery Society; in October 1836, he left the pulpit to lecture on behalf of the cause of emancipation.
Death McKim died in West Orange, New Jersey on June 13, 1874.
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U.S. abolitionist (1810–1874)
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James Miller McKim was born on 10 November 1810 in Carlisle.
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James Miller McKim died on 13 June 1874 in Llewellyn Park.
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James Miller McKim was a cleric and abolitionist.
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