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* MILLEB. 512 Beitrag zur Geschichte dcr Ziirtlichkeit (1776) ; Biicfucchsel dreier I'reundc (1776-77) ; and Ge- schichte Karh vqii Burghcim und Emiliens ion liosenau (177S-79). A tollected edition of Mil- ler's poems appeared in 1783, and an autobiog- raphy in 1S03. Consult Kraeger, Johann Martin Millir (Bremen, 1893). MILLER, .loiix Fbaxklin (1831-8G). A sol- dier and politician, born in South Bend, Ind. He graduated at tlie Xew York State Law School in 1852, and was elected to the Indiana Senate in 18(i0, but resigned in order to enter the army on the outbreak of tlie Civil War. He was made colonel of the Twenty-ninth Indiana 'olunteers. and fought in many of the most im- purtaut battles in the West. For gallantry at the battle of Stone River he was made a briga- dier-general of vciluuteers. At Liberty Gap he was severely wounded, but lie commanded a divi- sion at Xashville, and was soon afterwards bre- vctted major-general of volunteers. Soon after the war he removed to San Francisco, and was for four years Collector of the Port. He then entered business, and was one of the originators and also president of the Alaska Commercial Fur Company. He took an active part in politics, was several times a Presidential elector on the Republican ticket, in 1879 assisted in framing a new State constitution, and in 1881 was elected United States Senator. lUTLLEK, .To;=EPH, commonly known as Joe ^Miller ( 1084-1738). An English comedian. With .slight interruption he was connected with Drury Lane from 1714 to liis death. Great favorites with the town were liis Teague in Sir Robert Howard's Committee and Sir Joseph Wittol in Congreve's Old Bachelor. He was also popular in a score of other roles. So ignorant that he was unable to rend, he married that he might have some one to read his parts to liim. Though he had no great reputation as a wit olT the stage, yet the year after liis death ajipeared a small volume of jests ascribed to him under the title Joe Miller's Je^sts. This pamjililet of 72 pages, contain- ing 247 jests, was compiled bv a certain .John Mottiey for the publisher, T. Read. Why it was fathered upon a ])oor and illiterate actor is not clear: perhaps by mere accident. The jests are taken in part from earlier collections and in part from current witticisms that had not pre- viously found their way into print. Only three are related of Miller himself. As a whole, they are flat ; their only piiiuancy is in their coar.se- ness. But they were exceedingly popular, as is shown bv the numerous editions that immediatc- Iv followed (Ist, 2d. 3d. 1739: 4th. 1740; 5th. n42: Cth. 1743: 7th. 1744: 8th, 1745). The original number of jests, which had increased to 587 in the edition of 174.5, continued to grow, until by the middle of the nineteenth century it had reached l.')4fi. Consult the> facsimile reprint of the first editions by Bellars (London. 1801) : and ITazlitt. Studies in Jocular Literature (Lon- don. 1890), MILLER, .TosEPii Xei,so (1836—). An American naval ofTicer, born in Ohio. Entering the nay in 1851, he became commander in 1870. captain in 1881. commodore in 1894, and rear- admiral in 1897. .As executive ofTioer on board the ironclad Passaic he was present at the attack upon Fort Sumter in 1863, and for bravery in this and the action against Fort Fisher was MILLER. highly commended. He represented the Na-y De- partment at the Queen's Jubilee in 1897, in 1898 raised the llag of the United States over Hawaii, and at the time of the Spanish-American War organized the Pacific naval reserves. In Xovem- bcr, 1898, he was placed on the retired list. MILLER, Lewis (1829-99). An American philanthropist and inventor, born at Grecntown, Ohio. He invented several im])ortant agricul- tural machines, which brought him a large for- tune. In 1873 he suggested to Bishop John H. Vincent the plan of the Chautaucpia Assembly, and became president of the Assembly after its foundation the next year. He gave largely to the support of the Assembly and to other enter- prises. MILLER, Orest Feiwrovitch (1834-89). A Russian writer, born in Reval. He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg (1851-55), and was professor of early Russian literature there until 1888. His lectures on Russian Litera- ture After Gogol were published in 1874 (3d ed. 1887), and his Slav World and Europe in 1877. Though a prominent Slavophil, he was less rad- ical than some writers, as is shown by his book on the Slav question (1865). He also wrote works on Lomonosofi' and Peter the Great in the following year, but became most widely known through his work on the national mj-thology, en- titled Ilia iluroniets i Bogartyrsvo Kievskoa (1870). MILLER, Patrick (1731-1815). A Scottish inventor, who is asserted by some first to have invented the steamboat. He was born in Glas- gow, became a banker, and having accumulated a considerable property, interested himself in maritime inventions. In 1785 he bought the estate Dalswinton in Dumfriesshire, and there conducted some experiments with a steamlioat of his construction which was pro|)elled by a Sym- ington (q.v.) engine. In 1787 he published a descri|ition of one of his vessels under the title, The Elcration, Section, Plan, and Vicus of a Triple Vessel irith Wheels, etc. Consult Miller, .1 Letter to Bennet Wo(Mleroft I'indicating the Right of Patrick Miller to he Called the First In- ventor of Practical Steam A'avigatio)i (London, 1862). MILLER, Samfel Freeman (1816-90). An American jurist. He was born in Richmond, Ky., and removed in 1850 to Iowa, where he became cons|)icuous as a jurist. In 1862 he was ap- pointed an Associate .Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Lincoln. His de- cisions gave him a national reputation, and he was especially noted for his opjiosition to the encroachments of railroad corporations. In 1877 he was a member of the Electoral Commission, and in 1S87 was the orator of the Centennial Constitution celebration held at Philadelphia. MILLER, Warner (1838—). An American politician and manufacturer, born at Hannibal, Oswego Countv. X. Y.. graduated at Union Col- lege in 1860, and at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Fifth Xew York Cavalry and was promoted to be lieutenant. After leaving the army he became a paper manufacturer at Herki- mer! X. Y. In 1872 he was elected a delegate to the Xational Republican Convention, and served as a Republican in the Xew York legislature in 1874-75, and in the Forty-sixth and Forty-sevenUl