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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOHN E. MILLER.
    John E. Miller of Searcy and prosecuting attorney of his judicial circuit
comprising five counties, was born in Aid, Missouri, May 15, 1888, and is a son
of John A. and Mary K. (Harper) Miller, who are natives of Stoddard county,
Missouri. The father, a farmer by occupation, has given much attention to stock
raising, handling high grade cattle and hogs. He has carried on an extensive
business and has met with substantial success in his agricultural and stock
raising interests, which he began following his service in the Civil war, in
which he was with the Confederate army, spending much of his time at Cape
Girardeau and Bloomfield, Missouri. He participated in several skirmishes and
was on active duty until the close of hostilities, whence he turned his
attention to the work of developing his land and raising stock. He has now
reached the age of seventy-three years, while his wife is sixty-nine years of
age. Both are members of the Baptist church. In their family were eight
children, five of whom are living: E. E., who makes his home near Puxico,
Missouri, where he follows farming; Eunice May, who is a graduate of the Cape
Girardeau Normal School and is now teaching at Caruthersville, Missouri; Iva
Beatrice, also a graduate of the Cape Girardeau Normal School and now a teacher
in the high school at Bloomfield; Oden Ray, who is pursuing a pharmaceutical
course in the Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri: and John E. Two of
the children died in infancy, while one daughter, Edith Victoria, became the
wife of T. J. McDowell and died in 1899 at the age of twenty-five years, leaving
two sons: Alfred L. and Samuel H. The former is with her parents and the latter
is now employed in the transportation department of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad at Danville, Illinois.

    John E. Miller pursued his education in the rural schools of Stoddard
county, Missouri, in the high school at Bloomfield and in the State Normal at
Cape Girardeau, while later he took a law preparatory course at Valparaiso
University. He did not study continuously but at intervals taught in six
different rural schools of Stoddard county, Missouri, and thus earned the money
which enabled him to continue his education. At the age of eighteen years he was
elected principal of his home school. He never abandoned his plan of becoming a
member of the bar, however, and was graduated from the Kentucky State University
of Law on the 6th of June, 1912, with the B. L. degree. On the 13th of June he
became a resident of Searcy, where he opened an office, entering into
partnership with J. N. Racheals, with whom he was connected until 1915 He then
formed a partnership with C. E. Yingling and is still associated with him in
general law practice. He served as assistant attorney for the Missouri & North
Arkansas Railroad for two years and he has always enjoyed a good private
practice. He likewise filled the office of city attorney for three years and on
the 1st of January, 1919, became prosecuting attorney of the first judicial
circuit, comprising White, Woodruff, St. Francis, Lee and Phillips counties. He
handled the prosecution in connection with the Elaine race riots in 1919 and has
tried many other important cases. For the past two years he has been attorney
for the Arkansas Hydro Electric Company, of which he is also one of the
directors. Aside from his professional interests he has investments in farm lands.

    On the 21st of October, 1914, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Ethel Lucile
Lindsey, a native of Lee county, Arkansas, and a daughter of R. H. Lindsey. They
have one child, Mary Louise, now two years of age. The parents are members of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and Mr. Miller is serving on the board of
stewards. He is a Chapter Mason, belonging to Searcy Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A.
M., and Tillman Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M., in which he has filled all of the
chairs. He is likewise identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His
political allegiance is given to the democratic party and aside from serving as
city attorney and prosecuting attorney he was a member of the constitutional
convention of 1917, being the second youngest member of that body which framed
the organic law of the state. His ability is widely recognized and has brought
him to a point of leadership in connection with public interests in his section
of the state.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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