Irvine Miller

As printed in 1902

IRVINE MILLER, LL. B.

The rare example of sons of great men rising as high as their fathers seems to support the notion that there is in this country a sort of hereditary bar to public succession. This class of young men is not judged by their associates, but by their distinguished fathers and to bear an illustrious name seems often to invite the shafts of jealousy and envy. As a western editor has expressed it: “If any schon of a house still honored rises to greatness he will have achieved it. He will not be born to it or have it thrust upon him, but he must be very great indeed to overcome the disadvantage of standing in the shadow of the colossal dead.” And yet an honorable ancestry is a precious heritage. This Mir. Miller can claim, and at the same time he has become recognized as a most prominent lawyer at the Springfield bar.

A native of Iowa, he was born in the city of Keokuk, June 10, 1860, his parents being Samuel F. and Eliza (Winters) Miller. Her paternal grandfather was a soldier of the war of 1812. The father of our subject was a distinguished lawyer and jurist, serving as judge of the supreme court of the United States, to which he was appointed by President Lincoln in 1862, when in his judicial capacity he was called to Washington, D. C. There he died in 1890. He was a native of Kentucky and was a strong antislavery man, whose influence was marked in behalf of the Union. His wife died in 1900 in the nation’s capital.

Irvine Miller began his education in a private school in Keokuk, Iowa, and later attended the public schools at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Sharon, Pennsylvania. He was next in a private school at Washington,

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.