Lucius O. Miller

As printed in 1909

LUCIUS O. MILLER.

Lucius O. Miller of Dayton, general church treasurer of the United Brethren church of the Lmited States, is a native son of Ohio, his birth having occurred in St. Johns, Auglaize county, April 19, 1856. His grandfather, Daniel Miller, was a native of Maryland and in his boyhood days went with his parents to Pairfield county, Ohio, the family being there established during the pioneer epoch in the history of this state. Daniel Miller followed the occupation of farming as a life work. His son, the Rev. Daniel R. Miller, was born on the old home farm in Pairfield county, June 13, 1835, and in 1860 became actively identified with the ministry of the United Brethren church. He has since devoted his time and energies to the work of upbuilding the denomination in all of its varied activities for the promotion of the cause of Christianity, and his influence has been of no restricted order. He is now a resident of Bloomdale, Ohio.

As the father’s ministerial labors called him to various points, Lucius O. Miller was reared in different towns where he attended the public schools until 1873, when he entered Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, remaining for three years a student in that institution. He afterward entered the Earmers Bank at Marion, Ohio, in the capacity of bookkeeper, occupying that position for three years, when he became bookkeeper in a wholesale men’s furnishing goods house at West Liberty, Ohio. He was for two years employed there and on the 15th of August, 1881, came to Dayton where he entered the United Brethren publishing house as shipping and bill clerk. His enterprise, diligence and capability won him promotion to the position of cashier on the ist of January, 1882, and served in that capacity until the ist of July, 1905, when he assumed the duties of the general church treasurer to which he had been elected by the general conference of the United Brethren church for a term of four years. He is a man of good business ability, manifesting keen insight as well as capable control and moreover his industry is unflagging and his resolution unfaltering. In this capacity he has charge of the finances of the home missions, foreign missions, general Sunday-school, general conference expense, the Union Biblical Seminary, ministerial education and church erection.

On the 6th of September, 1877, Mr. Miller was married in Westerville, Ohio, to Miss Lida J. Haywood, a daughter of John and Sylvia (Carpenter) Haywood, the former professor of mathematics in Otterbein University. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born six children: John Daniel Miller; Sylvia Grace, the wife of Richard Campion; Winton Leroy; Lucius Haywood; Edna Elaine; and Marjory Mae.

In his political views Mr. Miller is a republican, interested in the growth and success of his party because of his belief in its principles, yet without aspiration for political preferment. He has served as a member of the board of education and at all times is interested in intellectual progress. He is a member of the Present Day Club of Dayton and of the United Brethren church, manifesting active support of all the different branches of church work. Alert and energetic, with a thorough preliminary business training, he is well qualified for the complex and onerous duties which devolve upon him in his present connection.

As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.