Dekalb County AlArchives Biographies.....Miller, J. T. February 19 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. J. T. MILLER, of Collinsville, De Kalb county, Ala., was born February
19, 1848, in Floyd county, Ga., and is a son of Wesley and Mary (Copeland)
Miller. The paternal great-grandfather of the doctor, with his wife and two
sons, came from Ireland just after the close of the Revolutionary war, and
settled in Spartanburg district, S. C. One of these sons, George, subsequently
went to Kentucky, while Thomas Miller, the second son, remained in Spartanburg
district, married there and reared a family, including J. T. Miller, the father
of Dr. J. T. Miller. About the year 1845, Wesley Miller, with his wife and two
children, moved from Spartanburg district, S. C., to Chambers county, Ala.,
where he resided three years; thence he went to Floyd county, Ga., where he
continued in his vocation of planting until his death in 1861. His widow
survived until 1878. Wesley Miller was a planter of considerable skill and
thrift, and accumulated a large property; he was a very zealous Methodist, and
in politics was an old-line whig. His surviving children are named as follows:
John W., who is tax collector of Independence county, Ark.; Dr. J. T., of
Collinsville, Ala.; Richard R., of Pike county, Ark.; Benjamin H., of Rome, Ga.;
Elizabeth, wife of W. S. Tomlinson, of Plainville, Ga., and Mary L., widow of W.
T. Mosteller, of Collinsille, Ala. The Copeland family were also of Spartanburg
district, S. C., the maternal grandfather of Dr. J. T. Miller having been
William Copeland, a native, of the district named. The latter was a wealthy
merchant, who moved to Columbus, Ga., where he did an extensive trade, and where
he was murdered for his money by the notorious Murrell gang of desperadoes. Dr.
J. T. Miller was reared in Floyd county, Ga., and educated in the country
schools. On attaining his manhood he began his business life at Calhoun, Ga., as
a merchant, and carried on business as such until 1875, when he commenced the
study of medicine under Dr. W. C. Nixon, of Plainville, Ga. In the winter of
1875-6 he attended his first course of lectures at Atlanta Medical college, and
in 1877-8 studied at the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn., graduating
in the spring of 1878. He practiced at Plainsville, Ga., from 1878 until 1881,
when he came to Collinsville, Ala., where his genial disposition and practical
skill have won for him an extensive clientele. He is a member of the State
Medical association and of the county Medical society, and at one time was a
member of the board of censors. Politically he is a democrat, and socially he is
a royal arch Mason; in this fraternity he has filled the office of master of the
third veil and is now serving as treasurer. He is also a steward in the
Methodist Episcopal church and leads an upright and christian life. In February,
1879, the doctor married Miss Nannie G., daughter of Col. Robert M. Young, of
Calhoun, Ga., the happy union being now blessed with four children: Robert
Young, Walter Taylor, Grace and Bernard Colquit. Robert M. Young, the father of
Mrs. Miller, was colonel of the Fortieth Georgia infantry during the recent war,
and was a gentleman of great popularity in his county, which he represented
several terms in the Georgia legislature.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 932-933
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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