Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Miller, Walter Land November 6, 1888 - May 1, 1954
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Author: Etta Blanchard Worsley

Walter Land MILLER [photo]

Walter Land MILLER was born in Columbus, Georgia, November 7, 1888.  He is the
son of T[homas] Z[ephaniah] MILLER and Elizabeth [Angeline "Lizzie"] (LAND)
MILLER, deceased, both of Muscogee County, Georgia.  Walter was one of six
children, four boys and two girls.  Besides Walter, they are:  Dr. J[esse]
L[okey] MILLER, Dr. B. F. [sic - Frederick Monroe] MILLER, John T[homas] MILLER,
Mrs. Angie Mae TAYLOR and Miss Viola K[atherine] MILLER.  He was educated in the
local public schools[,] attending the Gentian Grammar School.

Walter MILLER was married to Miss Gertrude SINGER of Lafayette [Chambers Co.],
Alabama, October 28, 1925.  His wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
SINGER.  Two children, a boy and a girl, were born to Mr. and Mrs. MILLER.  They
are as follows:  Walter Land MILLER. Jr. [19 APR 1927-12 NOV 1971] and Margarett
Elizabeth ["Peggy"] MILLER [Mrs. Myron J. DOUB, 03 FEB 1929-17 MAR 2001], both
born in Columbus, Ga.

He lists his main occupation as shoe merchant and his secondary one as dairy
farmer.  Since 1920, he has been president of Miller-Taylor Shoe Co., the
leading distributor of dress shoes for this area.  This firm has remodeled their
store in the last few years and is now housed in one of the most modern and
beautiful buildings on Broadway.  As a Dairy Farmer he not only supplies raw
milk from his own dairy but acts as Sec.-Treas. of the Wells Dairies Cooperative
where milk is pasteurized and processed for the consumer.

Mr. MILLER has many other noteworthy accomplishments to his credit, both civic
and business.  Among them are, Past President of the Merchants Association,
Service on War Production Board during World War No. 2 as member of the Shoe
Retailers Advisory Committee, Director of the National Shoe Retailers Asso.,
Secretary and Treas. of Alaga Feed Corp. since 1943, Sec. & Treas. of Wells
Dairies Co-op since 1936.  He is a member of Kiwanis Club, Shriners, Elks, Odd
Fellows, Country Club, Democratic Party and the First Baptist Church.

Additional Comments:
From "Columbus on the Chattahoochee," by Etta Blanchard Worsley (Columbus Office
Supply Company:  Columbus, Georgia, 1951), Appendix.  Walter Land MILLER is a
double first cousin of my paternal grandfather, Ernest Clyde LAND (1893-1978) -
jml.   

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