MILLER
MILLER
Collegiate Presbyterian churches of New York,
1804-13 ; and of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed
churches, 1813-25. He was professor of didactic
and polemic theology at the Seminary of the lie-
formed Dutch church, New Brunswick, N.J. ;
and president and professor of moral philosophy
at Rutgers college, 1825-40. He v\as a trustee of
Rutgers college, 1815-40. The honorary degree of
D.D. was conferred on him by the University of
Pennsylvania in 1805. He was elected a member
of the American Philos<^»pliical society in 1840. He
is the author of Dissertation on Incestuoun Mar-
riages (1843), and many sermons and addresses.
His son, Philip Edward Milledoler, was a well-
known clergyman of the Episcopal church, a
member of the New York assembly and a trustee
of Rutgers college. Philip Milledoler died on
Staten Islund. N.Y., Sept. 23, 1852.
MILLER, Alfred Brashear, educator, was born near Brownsville, Pa., Oct. 16, 1829 ; son of Moses and Mary (Knight) Miller ; grandson of Samuel and (Davidson) Miller, and great- grandson of Shedrich and (Crabbe) Muller,
who came from Germany about 1725, landed at Philadelphia and settled in Western Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Waynesburg college in 1853 ; was professor of mathematics there, 1853- 58 ; president, 1858-99, and was elected president emeritas and acting profeasor of the philosophi- cal sciences in 1899. He was pastor of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church, Waynesburg, 1865- 75. The honorary degree of D.D. was confer- r«»d on him by Adrian college in 1875, and that of LL.D. by Cumberla!i<l university at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1880. lie lectured before teachers' in- stitutes, summer schools and Chautauquas, and is the author of Doctrines and Genius of the Cum- berland Presbyterian Chnrch (1890). He died in Waynesburg, Pa., Jan. 30, 1902.
MILLERt Charles Henry, artist, was born in New York city, March 20, 1842 ; sod of Jacob and Jane M. (Taylor) Miller ; grandson of Abraham and Dorcas Taylor of Von kers,N.Y.; great-grand- son of Jacobus Mulder and of Stephen Oakley, and a descendant of Fernandus De Muldor, who came from Nykirk, Holland, to New Netherlands in 1664. He made his first studies from nature surrounding his native city, principally on Long Island, of which '• little continent "iJjiyard Tay- lor called him " The Artistic Discoverer." He attended Mt. Washington collegiate institute and was graduated from the New York Homeopathic medical institute, M.D., in 1864, but almndoned tlie profession to study art in Europe, 1867-70. In 1880 he exhibited " The Challenge Accepted " at the National Academy of Design, New York city. He was a pupil of Adolf Lier ; also a stu- dent at the Royal Academy of Bavaria, at. Munich, 1867. He was elected an associate memberof the
National Academy of Design, 1873, and an Aca-
demician in 1875. He was president of the New
York Art club in 1879 ; and of the American com-
mittee at the International exix)sition held at
Munich in 1883. He was awarded the gold medal of
the Massachusetts
Charitable Mechan-
ic association, 1878.
and a gold medal at
the Cotton States ex-
position. New Or-
leans, 1885. His paint-
ings exhibited at the
National Academy
include : Near Mu-
nich (1870); A Long
Island Homestead
(1873); High Bridge
from Harlem Lane
(1875); A Bouquet of
Oaks (1884); A Sub-
urban Wayside(\88Q) ;
and A Cornfield at Qneenlaion (1887). He exhi-
bited Old Mill at Springfield, Long Island, at the
Centennial, Philadelphia ; Oaks at Creedmoor^
at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and Sunset at
Queens, at the Exposition of 1882. He became
well known as an art critic and under the pen
name Carl de Muldor, wrote The Philosophy of
Art in America (1885).
MILLER, Charles Ransom, editor, was born at Hanover, N.H., Jan. 17, 1849; son of Elijah Tenney and Chastina (Hoyt) Miller, and grand- son of Elijah Tenney and Eunice (Tenney) Miller. He prepared for college at academies at Meriden, N.H., and South Woodstock, Vt., and was gradu- ated at Dartjnouth, A.B., 1872. He engaged in journalism and was on the staff of the Springfield Republican, 1872-75, and on the New York Times, as telegraph and foreign editor 1875-81, editorial writer, 1881-83, and in 1883 became editor-in-chief and subsequently a director and vice-president of the New York Times Company. He was married, Oct. 10, 1876, to Frances, daughter of W^illiam H. Daniels of Plainfield, N.H. He was elected a member of the Century association, and of the Metropolitan, Lawyer's, and other clubs.
MILLER, Emily Clark Huntington, author, was born in Brooklyn, Conn., Oct. 22, 1833; daughter of Dr. Thomas and Paulina (Clark) Huntington ; granddaughter of Moses and Meli- cent (Skinner) Clark and of Gen. Jedidiah and Ann (Moore) Huntington. She was graduated from Oberlin college in 1857, and in 1860 was mar- ried to John E. Miller of Greentown, Ohio, who died in 1882. She became editor of a children's magazine, Little Corporal, in 1867, the magazine being combined with St. Nicholas in 1875. She was dean of women in the Northwestern univer-
