Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Hon. Samuel A. Miller

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Hon. Samuel A. Miller, attorney at law and senator of the Twenty-fifth 
Senatorial District of Arkansas, was born in Van Buren, Ark., on 
November 28, 1857, and is a son of George E. and Mary A. (Shannon) 
Miller. The father was born in Powhatan, Va., in 1811, and in 1832 
located two miles north of Van Buren, in Crawford County. He was a 
large land owner, having 1,000 acres in all, and for several years 
during the last part of his life was engaged in the mercantile 
business in Van Buren. He was assassinated by unknown parties in 1865. 
The [p.1175] mother was born in Batesville, Ark., in 1822, and was a 
daughter of William Shannon, whose brother Isaac introduced the 
"Shannon apple." Isaac was one of the first white settlers in 
Washington County, Ark., and there produced the apple. Mrs. Miller 
died in 1880, and of her thirteen children nine are now living: Maria 
J., widow of Gideon Lichlyter; Harriet E., wife of Hugh Morrow; 
Isabella, wife of Mariman P. Kilgore; William G., butcher; Alice, wife 
of James B. Johnson; Richard J., merchant; Lenora, wife of John 
Kilgore; Samuel A. and Lillie E. Samuel first attended the Van Buren 
schools, and later studied in the State University two years. He 
taught school two terms in 1875, and in 1879 began to study law under 
Hon. B. J. Brown, of Van Buren. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar, 
and he afterward became the partner of Judge William Walker, of Fort 
Smith, and subsequently of J. R. Reeves, but for the past year has 
practiced alone. In the fall of 1888 he was elected to represent 
Crawford and Franklin Counties in the State Senate, by a majority of 
1,106. October 12, 1887, he married Miss Virgie Lee Dean, daughter of 
James M. Dean, and a native of Mississippi. They have one child, Dean 
M., and are active members in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
Mr. Miller is one of the rising young attorneys of the county, and has 
the promise of a bright future before him. He is a member of the K. of 
P. 

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