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Miller, Lucas M – Miller, Samuel Freeman

Miller, Lucas M

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1824 in Greece. He moved to the territory of Wisconsin and settled in Oshkosh in 1846. In 1853 he was a member of the Wisconsin legislature. He was one of the commissioners of the state board of public works; and for the last ten years has been chairman of the county board of supervisors of Winnebago county. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Miller, Morris Smith

soldier, was born April 2, 1814, in Utica, N. Y. He served during the Canada border disturbances, was in the Florida and Mexican wars, and in 1861, as quartermaster at Washington, D. C., was responsible for all the arrangements for the arrival of troops to defend the capital. He died March 11, 1870, in New Orleans, La.

Miller, Morris S

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1769. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815. In 1819 he was appointed a commissioner to superintend a treaty with the Seneca Indians; and was also judge of a county court. He died Nov. 15, 1824, in Utica, N. Y.

Miller, Nathan

congressman, was born about 1750 in Rhode Island. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Rhode Island in 1785 and 1786. He died in 1787 in Rhode Island.

Miller, Orrin L

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1856, in Newburg, Maine.

In 1887 he was appointed district judge for the twenty-ninth judicial district of Kansas; and in November of the same year was elected to that office for four years. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Miller, Pleasant M

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1809 to 1811.

Miller, Roswell

railroad president. Since 1890 he has been president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad.

Miller, Rufus W

clergyman, journalist, author, was born May 12, 1862, in Easton, Pa. He was the founder of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip; is the editor of The Brotherhood Star, in Reading, Pa.; and the author of What a Young Boy Ought to Know.

Miller, Rutger B

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative from that state to the twentyfourth congress to fill a vacancy.

Miller, Samuel

lawyer, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 23, 1816, in Princeton, N. J. He was principal of the West Jersey collegiate institute in 1845-57, and from 1857 till 1873 was in charge of the church in Oceanic, N. J. He published Report of the Presbyterian Church Case.

He died Oct. 12, 1883, in Mount Holly, N. J.

Miller, Samuel F

state legislator, congressman, was born May 27, 1827, in Franklin, N. Y. In 1854 he was elected to the New York legislature; and in 1850 and 1857 was supervisor of Franklin. He was for fifteen years identified as colonel with the state militia. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress. He was elected to the forty-fourth congress.

Miller, Samuel Freeman

physician, lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 5, 1816, in Richmond, Ky. He settled in Iowa and became one of the leaders of the republican party in that state. In 1862 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He was the author of The Supreme Court of the United States, a series of biographies; and Reports of Supreme Court Decisions.

He died Oct. 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C.