Ulysses Telemachus Miller

As printed in 1910

ULYSSES TELEMACHUS MILLER.

One of the best known residents of Calloway county, Missouri, of a past generation, who was also well known in Nodaway county, was Ulysses Telemachus Miller, born on Miller's creek, Calloway county, on July 26, 1826, and he died at his residence near McCredie, that county, on February 15, 1890. For several years of his early life he followed the trade of his father, that of cooper; but upon his marriage to Fanny Larimore. in September, 1855, he moved to the farm which was henceforth his home, to the successful management of which he devoted the remainder of his life. Although deprived in early life of the advantages of extensive education, he was one of those who, by an early education no less real than that of the schools, win for themselves the honorable distinction of “self-made’’ men. By indefatigable industry and business tact he secured for himself an ample competence, and placed himself in the front rank of influential men in the community of which he was a citizen. In this respect he resembled his father, Abraham Miller, one of the honored pioneers of Calloway county, who lived near Millersburg. He took more or less interest in the political affairs of his county and he was assessor of the county from 1849 to 1853. In 1872 he became a member of the White Cloud Presbyterian church, and he was one of the colony from that church which after-

5 76 wards organized the Mt. Olive church. Subsequently he became a member of the then newly organized Westminster church, where his membership remained until his death. As in other things, so in his religious life, Mr. Miller was a modest, unobtrusive man, but those who knew him best could not but be aware of his deep concern for the welfare of the church and all movements looking to the general good of his community. His family consisted of thirteen children, all of whom survived him. Two brothers also survived, Dr. Lee Miller, of Knobnoster. Missouri, and Lycurgus Miller, of Nowaday county.

As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.