George A. Miles (1864-1951) was born in Compton, Quebec, Canada, and died in Somerville, Massachusetts. He immigrated to the United States in 1886 and lived first in East Somerville then in Malden, Massachusetts. In October 1886 Miles studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student Augusta E. Stetson, then in May 1887 he took Eddy's Primary class at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. He was listed in the 1887 Somerville City Directory as a Mental Physician. In 1891 Miles graduated from Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and then worked as a physician in Somerville for 60 years, including being on the staff of the Somerville Hospital from 1895 to 1947. He married Alice S. Miles (b. Fisk) in Woodbury, Vermont, in 1892. Miles was a member of several medical societies, Somerville Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Aleppo Temple, and Mystic Shrine, and was a deacon of the West Somerville Baptist Church.

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