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Miller, Irvin

clergyman, legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1836, in Lebanon, Ky.

In 1855 he moved to Mississippi; served in the confederate army in company K, second regiment Mississippi cavalry, Gen.

Armstrong's brigade. In 1865 he was licensed to preach ; was ordained deacon in 1869; and elder in 1873; and has since prominence as a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, south. In 1890 he represented Leake county in the Mississippi constitutional convention; and in 1896 served as a member of the Mississippi state senate.

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