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congregation, which referred to Miles as the "minister's wife". There was resentment over Miles assisting
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to Phebe Ann (Barnard) Coffin, who died a month later) and George W. Coffin, a shipowner and a merchant. Phebe's father remarried the following year, to
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Hanaford accepted the cut, church officials then demanded that
Hanaford dismiss Miles. When Hanaford refused, the congregation voted not to renew Hanaford's contract. Hanaford then left to start the Second Universalist Church, where Ellen Miles ran the Sunday School.
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