Walter Scott Miller

Born in Nashville in 1870, Walter Scott Miller spent most of his early life in New Haven. He graduated from Hillhouse High School and received an LLB. from the Law Department of Shaw University in 1895 before enrolling in Yale. His brother, Albert President Miller, had graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1885.

After being admitted to the bar in 1897, Walter S. Miller began practicing law in New Haven but gave up the law to become a minister. In 1921, he served as pastor of First Congregational Church of King’s Mountain in Lowell, North Carolina briefly, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association. He then organized the Church of the Redeemer, a Congregational church in Baltimore, in fall 1921. From 1924 to 1926, Miller served as minister of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, Virginia. He died in 1926 in Norfolk.