History of Union County Indiana United States of America

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Samuel Allan Lattimore, educator, was born in Union county, Ind., May 31, 1828; son of Samuel and Mary (Poague) Lattimore. He was graduated from Indiana Asbury university, A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853, and remained there as classical tutor, 1850-52, and as professor of Greek, 1852-60. He was professor of chemistry in Genesee college, 1860-67, and in the University of Rochester, from 1867, chairman of the executive committee of the faculty, 1880-96, and acting president of the university, 1896-98. He was made consulting chemist to the board of water commissioners of Rochester, N.Y., in 1872, a commissioner of the annual assay of the U.S. mint in 1877, and again in 1900; chemist to the New York state board of health in 1881; chemist to the New York state department of agriculture in 1886, and was appointed university examiner in chemistry by the regents of the University of the State of New York in 1894. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Ohio Wesleyan university in 1852, that of Ph.D. from Indiana Asbury university and Iowa Wesleyan university in 1873, and that of LL.D. from Hamilton college, New York, in 1873. He was an active member of the American Chemical society, and of the Rochester Academy of Medicine, and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Franklin Miller, senator, was born in Union county, Ind., Nov. 21, 1831; son of William Miller. His maternal grandfather, Col. John Miller , was governor of Missouri, 1826-32. He removed to South Bend, Ind., with his parents in 1833; was fitted for college; studied law under Judge Egbert at South Bend, Ind.; graduated in law at Ballston Spa, N.Y., in 1852; practised at South Bend, 1852-53, and San Francisco and Napa, Cal., 1853-55, and was treasurer of Napa county, 1853-55; he practised at South Bend, 1855-61; was active in the Republican campaign of 1856, and a member of the state senate, 1861. He was married in 1857 to Mary Chess. He was an aide to Governor Morton, with the rank of colonel, 1861; organized and was made colonel of the 29th Indiana volunteers, and joined General Rousseau in Kentucky, Oct. 10, 1861. In February, 1862, he succeeded to the command of a brigade in Buell's Army of the Ohio, and his regiment served in Kirk's brigade at Pittsburg Landing, April 7, 1862. He commanded the military barracks at Nashville, and later the city of Nashville, Tenn., and was ordered to command the 7th brigade, Negley's 8th division, at Nashville, in September, 1862. He distinguished himself at the battle of Stone's River, where, in command of the 3d brigade, 2d division, Thomas's center, he charged across the river and drove Gen. John C. Breckinridge from his position. He was wounded in the neck during this engagement. He made a gallant charge in Tullahoma campaign at Liberty Gap, June 25, 1863, where he received a wound which destroyed the sight of the left He, and the bullet was not removed until 1875. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in January, 1864, for gallantry at Liberty Gap, and he commanded the Post of Nashville, made up of 8000 infantry and the garrison artillery, at the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers for this battle in May, 1865, and commanded the district of Mobile in the summer of 1865. He resigned from the volunteer service in September, 1865, declined a commission in the regular army, and practiced law in San Francisco, Cal., and was collector of the port of San Francisco, 1866-70. He gave up his legal practice in 1870 to accept the presidency of the Alaska Commercial Fur company. He was an elector on the Republican presidential ticket in 1872, 1876, and 1880; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1879, and U.S. senator, 1881-86. While in the senate he was chairman of the committee on foreign relations in the 48th and 49th congresses. He died in Washington, D.C., March 8, 1886.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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