History of Augusta, (Oneida County) New York United States of America

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William Henry Harrison Miller, cabinet officer, was born at Augusta, Oneida county, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1840; son of Curtis and Lucy (Duncan) Miller; grandson of Isaac and Irene (Miller) Miller, and of Samuel and Betsy (Stanhope) Duncan, and a descendant of Benjamin Miller, who came to Connecticut from Scotland in 1650. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm, attended Whitestown seminary and was graduated at Hamilton college in 1861. He taught in the public schools of Maumee City, Ohio, 1861-62; served in the 84th Ohio volunteers, May-September, 1862, and studied law in the office of Morrison R. Waite . He was married Dec. 23, 1863, to Gertrude A. Bunceof Vernon, N.Y. He was superintendent of the public schools of Peru, Ind., 1863-65; was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1865; practised at Peru, 1865-66, and at Fort Wayne, 1866-74, and entered the law firm of Porter, Harrison & Hines at Indianapolis, of which Gen. Benjamin Harrison was a partner, the firm becoming Harrison, Hines & Miller, and subsequently Harrison, Miller & Elam. Mr. Miller served as the confidential adviser of Gen. Benjamin Harrison long before and during the presidential campaign of 1888, and was appointed attorney-general in his cabinet, March 5, 1889. He served until the close of Harrison's administration in 1893 and then resumed the successful practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., his son, Samuel D. Miller becoming a partner with him in the law firm of Miller, Elam & Foster. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., in 1889.

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

History of Augusta, (Oneida County) New York

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