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sity, Evaiiston, III., 1891-98. She receiveors ; Captain Fritz ; Kathie's Experience. ; For the Beloved (poema), and Songs from the Nest (poems). Slie also contributed ex- tensively to periodic'als.

MILLER, Qeorge Funston, representative, wjvs born in Ciiillisquaque township, Northum- berland county, Pa., Sept. 5, 1809 ; son of John T. and Sarah (Funston) Miller, and grandson of Jolm and Susannah (Bowers) Truckemiller. He attended the academy at Milton, Pa., engaged in teaching school, studied law and practised in Lewisburg, Pa. He was a Republican represent- ative from the fourteenth Pennsylvania district in the 39th and 40tli congresses, 1865-09 ; was active in establishing the University at Lewisburg in 1846 ; was a member of the board of curators, 1846-83, scribe, 1847-51, and secretary of the board of trustees, 1848-64. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bucknell univer- sity in 1876. He was married, Sept. 27, 1836, to An inda, daughter of Daniel Rose Bright, of Milton, Pa. His two sons became lawyers. He died in Lewisburg. Pa., Oct. 21, 1885.

MILLER, Harriet Mann, author, was born in Auburn, N.Y., June 25. 1831 ; daughter of Seth H. and Mary Field (Holbrook) Mann ; granddaugh- ter of James Mann, a merchant of Boston, Mass., antl great granddaughter of Benjamin Mann, a captain in the American army at Bunker Hill. She attended private schools in Syracuse, N.Y., and in 1842 her parents removed to Ohio, where her education was continued. She was married in 1854 at Rock Island, III., to Watts T. Miller, resided in Chicago, III., for a number of yeiirs, and t'.ien removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she de- voted herself to literary work. She first wrote for the magazines under the pen name " Olive Thorne," and subsequently became popularly known as "Olive Thorne Miller." She began t!ie stuiy of.birds about 1883 and is the author of : Little Folks in Feathers and Fur and Others in Neither (1879); Nimpo's Troubles (1879); Queer Pets at Marcy's (1880); Little People of Asia (1880); Bird Ways (1885); In Nesting Time (1888); The Woman's Club (1891); Little Brothers of the Air (1892) ; A Bird-Lover in the West (1894) ; Four- Handed Folk (1896) ; Upon the Tree-Tops (1897): The First Book of Birds (1900) ; Tlie Second Book of Birds (1901).

MILLER, Homer VIrgll Milton, surgeon, was born in Pendleton district, S.C., April 29, 1814; son of Maj.-Gen. Andrew and Rachel F. (Cheri) Miller, and a descendant of Welsh and Huguenot ancestry. He removed to Rabun county, Ga., with his parents in 1820, and was educated at home. He was graduated at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1835 ; was married the same year to Harriet Parrj- Clark, and completed his medical studies in Paris, France, 1835-38. He practised at Cassville, Ga., 1838-46, and was also licensed to preach in the Methodist church. He was professor of obstetrics in the Medical college at Memphis, Tenn., 1846-48 ; professor of physi- ology in the Medical college at Aug^ta, Ga., 1849-65 ; served in the Confederate army, 1861- 65, first as surgeon to the 8th Georgia infantry regiment, and afterward as brigade and division surgeon in Virginia, with Gen. Beauregard at Charleston, S.C., and as medical director, surgeon of posts, and insi)ector of hospitals in Georgia. He practised medicine in Rome, Ga., 1865-67, and was professor of clinical medicine, chemistry and practice of physic in the Medical college at Atlanta, Ga., 1867-96. He was a Whig candidate for representative in the 29th congress, 1844, and was active in the Whig presidential canvasses of 1844, 1848, 1852 and 1856. He declined to serve as a delegate to the convention at Montgomery, Ala., in 1858, believing it to be a secession move- ment. He was chairman of the committee that nominated Warren Aiken for governor of Geor- gia in opposition to Joseph E. Brown in 1858 ; was a member of the executive committee of the Constitutional Union party in 1860, and a member of the state reconstruction convention in 1867. He was sent to Europe as agent of the Inter- national Cotton exposition at Atlanta, Ga., in 1881 ; was princiiml physician of the Georgia penitentiary, 1890-96 ; an associate editor of the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal ; a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1860-67 and 1868-89, and received the degree of LL.D. from Emory college. He died in Atlanta, Ga., May 31, 1896.

MILLER, Jacob Welsh, senator, was born in German Valley, Morris county, N.J., in Novem- ber, 1800 ; son of Henry W. and Elizabeth Miller, and a descendant of Jolm Henry Miller, who came from Zweibriicken, Germany, to German Valley, N.J., May 3, 1753. He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practised at MorriStown, N.J. He was a representative in the general assembly in 1832 ; a state senator, 1838-40, and a U.S. sen- ator, 1841-53. He refused to support the com- promise measures of 1850 and became a member of the Republican party in 1855. He was married to Mary Louisa, daughter of George Parrot Mac- culloch, of Morristown. He died in Morristown, N.J., Sept. 30. 1862.