Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Miller, Francis D. August 7, 1860 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.96-97  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        FRANCIS DAVID MILLER, M. D. The medical profession is represented at 
Jacksonville, as elsewhere, by a high type of American manhood, earnest, 
conscientious, skilled and faithful. All over the land they carry on the 
beneficent work to which they have devoted themselves, and as a class well 
deserve all the esteem and gratitude their fellowmen accord them. One of the 
leading physicians and surgeons of Duval County is Dr. FRANCIS DAVID MILLER, of 
Jacksonville, chief surgeon of St. Luke’s Hospital for seven years, and
prominent in numerous other connections in city and county.
	Doctor Miller was born at Hawthorne, Alachua County, Florida, August 7,
1860, a son of JOHN MILTON and SERENA EUGENIA (SHANNON) MILLER, the second born
in their family of eight children, five of whom are yet living. Doctor Miller
comes of Irish ancestry, and family traditions reach back to County Ulster. His
paternal grandfather was an early settler in Sumter County, South Carolina,
where he accumulated extensive tracts of land and cultivated cotton with slave
labor.
	JOHN MILTON MILLER, father of Doctor Miller, was born in Sumter County, 
South Carolina, and early in the ‘50s came from there to Florida, where he 
engaged in growing Sea Island cotton during the rest of his active life. He was 
a man of wealth prior to the war between the states, and owned great 
plantations and many slaves. He served with great valor in the above war, first 
in Governor Perry’s Regiment, then in the Seventh Regiment under Col. 
WASHINGTON SPARKMAN, and later in Finnegan’s brigade, and was honorably
discharged with the rank of sergeant. In early manhood he married SERENA
EUGENIA SHANNON, who was born at Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, in
1841, and survives him. Her father, FRANCIS ADAM SHANNON, was born and reared
in Kershaw County, South Carolina. In 1854 he came to Florida and settled at
Rochelle, and became one of the extensive cotton growers in Alachua County,
owning many slaves. He would accept no public office, but was a man of
influence and assisted in the movement making Gainesville the county seat.
Another ancestor of Doctor Miller was General Sir ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM, a native
of the North of Ireland and a British officer who came to the American colonies
and served in the Revolutionary war. He is reputed to have lived to the unusual
age of 112 years. He became wealthy as a cotton planter in Sumter County, South
Carolina, as also did his son, JOSEPH, who was one of the first millionaires in
the United States.
	FRANCIS DAVID MILLER was primarily educated at Roper Academy, at 
Gainesville, Florida, now the University of Florida, then attended the 
University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, and in 1881 graduated from 
the medical department of the former institution. He located in the Village of
Noonsville, Florida, practicing there from 1884 to1888, when he came to 
Jacksonville, and has ever since been active in practice and useful and able in 
all matters pertaining to the field of medicine. He served several years as 
city health officer, for one year was chairman of the State Board of Medical 
Examiners, had charge of the Marine Hospital during the yellow fever epidemic 
in 1888, and served seven years as chief surgeon of St. Luke’s Hospital. During 
the Spanish-American war he served as an ensign with the State Naval Reserves,
stationed at Jupiter, Florida. He is a member of different scientific bodies,
including such organizations as the Duval County Medical Association and the
Florida State Medical Association. Doctor Miller was reared in the Presbyterian
faith.


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