Biography of B.M. MILLER, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	DR. B.M. MILLER, physician and planter, Shoal Creek,
Ark. Dr. Miller was born in Missouri, in 1831, and is the son
of Samuel and Mary (Hatton) Miller, the former a native of
Virginia, and the latter of South Carolina. The father was
a soldier in the war of 1812, and at its close was mustered
out at what was then the little French village of St. Louis,
where he met and married Miss Mary Hatton in 1815. He was a
farmer, and continued that occupation until his death, in 1858.
His widow joined the "silent majority" in 1877, at the age of
eighty-seven years. Both were members of the Methodist Church.
The paternal grandparents were John and Katherine (Bellue) Miller,
and the maternal were Thomas and Joannah Hatton, who were the
grandparents of Frank Hatton, postmaster-general. The parents
of Dr. Miller were identified with the early history of Missouri,
and the latter received his education in the schools of his
district until eighteen years of age. He was then sent to
Westminster College, at Fulton, Mo., and there continued until
twenty-one years of age. In 1855 he began the study of medicine
under Dr. Thomas Howard, of Millersburg, Mo., and continued with
him for two years, after which, in 1857-58, he attended lectures
in the Missouri Medical College. He then commenced practicing in
St. Aubert, Mo., where he remained about a year and a half, and
then came to Johnson (now Logan) County, Ark., located in the
neighborhood of Shoal Creek, and there he has built up a very
extensive practice, extending over a large portion of the eastern
part of Logan and a part of Yell Counties. He is assisted by his
son, Dr. S.E. Miller. Our subject was married in 1867, to Miss M.J.
Sellers, a native of Tennessee, born in 1847, and the daughter of
Edward and Serena Sellers. To this union have been born four
children: S.E. (born in 1867), Aubrey (born in 1868), Dudley,
(born in 1876), and Jean (born in 1878.) In 1869 Dr. Miller
purchased 100 acres of land upon which he has built a good
house and substantial out buildings, and further improved by
fencing and clearing about 60 acres. He raises wheat, oats and
corn, and in the last few years has been raising cotton. His
farm will average thirty bushels of corn, forty to sixty bushels
of oats and three-fourths of a bale of cotton to the acre. In
1862 he enlisted in Company I, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, as assistant
surgeon, but resigned and served as private. He took part in the
Missouri raid and served until the close of the war. The Doctor is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, Elizabeth Lodge No. 215. His
wife, who was a consistent member of the Methodist Church, died on
July 18, 1890, to the great sorrow not only of her husband and
children, but the numerous friends her pleasant, genial disposition
had gathered around her.