Daniel F. Miller

As printed in 1905

DANIEL F. MILLER, Jr.

The legal profession in the City of Keokuk, Iowa, has long had a brilliant following, and some of its more distinguished representatives have won a national reputation. Others, who have not been fortunate enough to attain so wide celebrity, have still been noted for their mastery of the fundamental principles of their great work, and have been noted for their forensic ability, voluminous learning and analytic powers. The bar at Keokuk is regarded as second to none in the state, and there the gentleman with whose name this article begins occupies no subordinate place. He is prominent in the city as a lawyer who understands the principles of right and justice, and who may be depended upon to apply those principles as a matter of equity and right to the details of common life. Courtly and urban in his manner, his knowledge of the law is broad and accurate and his personal character high.

Daniel F. Aliller, Jr., was torn in Washington township, Lee county, Iowa, May 27, 1851, being a son of Daniel F. and Rebecca (Phillips) Aliller, and was taken by his parents in 1859 to live in Keokuk, where his earlier education was obtained in the public and private schools of that city. He was a student at a later period of the Christian Brothers' College at St. Louis, and also of the Iowa State University, from the law department of which he graduated in due time. He immediately located at Fort Madison, where he established himself in the practice of his profession. Shortly afterwards, however, he entered into professional associations with AI. B. Davis, under the firm name of Davis & Miller, which became, some years later on the dissolution, the firm of Aliller & Sons, the subject of this sketch moving to Keokuk for the purpose of practicing his profession in that city.

Mr. Aliller was elected county attorney in 1887, and the firm of Aliller & Sons was dissolved, to be reformed six years later, when Mr. Aliller retired from official position and resumed his practice. On re- organizing the firm it was called Aliller & Son, and here Mr. Aliller continued in his legal work until the death of his father, which occurred at Omaha, in December, i8ij5, whither he had gone to visit his chil-

As printed in Biographical review of Lee County, Iowa; (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.