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n garrison in California, 1872-79 ; at the Artil- lery school, Fort Monroe, Va., and at West Point, 18b 1-64 ; was promoted major and transferred to the 5th artillery, Sept. 14, 1883 ; commanded Fort Columbus and the rifle camp at Fisher's Island, N.Y., 1888; was brevetted colonel, Feb. 27, 1890, for services in action against the Indians in the lava beds of (.California, April 17, 1873, and special gallantry and military ability at Clearwater, Idaho, July 11-12, 1877. He was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel, Ist artillery, Oct. 10, 1894, and colonel, 3d artillery, April 80, 1897. He was com- missioned brigadier-general of volunteers at the outbreak of the Spanish American war, May 27, 1898, and commanded a brigade in Manila, 1898- 99. On Feb. 11, 1899. he was in command of the forces of the U.S. army and participated with the navy in capture of Iloilo, and he commanded the forces there until March 27, 1899. His volunteer commission was vacated, Feb. 23, 1899. He was promoted brigadier-general, U.S.A., Feb. 8, 1899 ; was retireeration of law, having reached the age limit, March 27, 1899, and returned to his home in Stockbridge, Mass.

MILLER, Merrill, naval officer, was born in Bellefoiitaine, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1847 ; son of Henry and Mary Miller. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval af»demy, Nov. 28, 1859 ; was attached to the frigate Potomac, 1861-62, and was promoted ensign, Oct. 13, 1862. He served with the Missis- sippi squadron, 1862-6JJ ; took part in the battles of Arkansas Post, Oct. 13, 1862, and Haines's Bluff in 1863, and had charge of the mortar-boats at the siege of Vicksburg for twenty-three days in 1863. He was promoted lieutenant, Feb. 22, 1864 ; served on the North Atlantic blockading squadron, 1864-65, in the expedition up the James River in 1864, and in both attacks on Fort Fisher, 1864 and 1865. He was attached to the iron-clad Monadnock, in 1866 ; promoted lieutenant-com- mander, July 25, 1866 ; was at the Naval academy, 1867-69, and attached to the Ijancaster, flagship of the Atlantic suadron, 1869-72. and to the Worcester, flagHhip of the North Atlantic station, 1872-74. He was again at the Naval academy, 1875-79 ; promotefi commander, Nov. 25, 1877, and commanded the Yanticoxx the North Atlantic station in 1880. He was light-house inspector, 1881-84 ; commanded the Marion on the Asiatic station. 1885-8S ; \vas at the Portsmouth navy yard, 1888-S9. and at the Philadelphia Naval home, 1888-92. He was light-house inspector, 1892-93; was promoted captain, Feb. 25, 1893, commanded the receiving-ship i^anWin, 1893-97, and the receiving-ship Vermont, 1897-1900. He was promoted rear-admiral and assigned to the command of the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal., July 1, 1900, his date for retirement forage limit being Sept. 13, 1904.

MILLER, Nathan, delegate, was born in War- ren, R.I., March 26, 1743 ; son of Col. Nathan Miller. He was a ship carpenter by trade and was prominent in the pre-Revolutionary movements. In October, 1775, he was appointed by the general assembly commissary to the troops stationed on Rhode Island, under the command of Brig.- Gen. Esek Hopkins. On May 5, 1779, he was elected major-general of the newly brigaded mil- itia of Newport county, and on Feb. 26, 1781, the assembly, in order to supply the place of the French troops withdrawn from the state, voted to call out 1300 militia to serve for one month under General Miller. He was a delegate to the Con- tinental congress from July 14, 1786, till Nov. 3, 1786. He was re-elected but did not take his seat. On July 27, 1786, he voted for the bill for imposing duties on foreign goods to pay the debt contracted by the United States during the war, and on October 13 he voted for the estab- lishment of a board to liquidate all debts be- tween the United States and individual states. He served in the state convention of 1790, where he favored the ratification of the Federal consti- tution, but he did not live to see his state ratify the instrument. He married Rebecca Barton, who died Aug. 21, 1817. He died at Warren, R.I., May 20, 1790.

MILLER, Olive Thome, see Miller, Harriet Mann.

MILLER, Samuel, clergyman and author, was born near Dover, Del., Oct. 31, 1769; son of the Rev. John and Margaret(Millington ) Miller; grand- son of Allumby and Elizabeth (Harris) Milling- ton of Talbot county, Md., and of John Miller, a Scotchman, who immigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1719, where he married Margaret Bass of Brain- tree and conducted a sugar refinery and distillery for several years. Samuel received his prepara- tory education under his father ; entered the senior class of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated there with first honors, A.B., 1789, A.M., 1792. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Lewes, Del., Oct. 13, 1791, shortly after his father's death, and completed his theological studies under the Rev. Charles Nisbet (q. V.) in 1792. He preached in several churches in Delaware ; was a colleague to the Rev. Dr. Rodgers and the Rev. Dr. McKnight in the ♦' Brick " and " Wall Street " churches, known then as the First church. New York city, 1793- 1809, and sole pastor of the Wall Street church, 1809-13. He was married, Oct. 24, 1801, to Sarah, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Dickinson and Margaret (Spencer) Sergeant of Philadelphia, Pa. He was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1806 ; a founder and director of Princeton Theological seminary, 1812-13, and professor of ecclesiastical history