Massac County IL Archives Biographies.....Miller, Andrew E. 1871 - 
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Author: George Washington Smith (1912)

   DR. ANDREW E. MILLER. "A prince of well-doers in this frail tabernacle of
mortality" is Doctor Andrew E. Miller, who is actively engaged in the practice
of medicine at Metropolis, Illinois. Still some distance short in years of the
meridian of existence, Dr. Miller has already attained to the zenith of
professional and personal regard amid his fellowmen, and is enjoying a measure
of esteem that is greatly to be desired but rarely attained.

   Dr. Miller was born in Metropolis, July 30, 1871. His intellectual training
was begun in the city schools, and continued in the Southern Illinois Normal,
where be graduated from the classical course in 1889. His first employment was
as clerk in the post office of his native town, in which capacity he served
under Norman J. Slack, at that time the postmaster. Going into a drug store as
assistant, he conceived an ambition to employ the forces derived from Nature
which lay before him on the shelves by his own knowledge instead of at the
direction of others, and consecrated his future life as a disciple of
Esculapius. He entered the medical department of the Cincinnati University,
where he finished the course with honors and graduated in May, 1900. Opening an
office in Metropolis, among the people of his childhood, he speedily became one
of the favored men of his profession. His skill as a diagnostician is equaled by
his practical application of remedies and his skill as a surgeon. He is a member
of the local medical society, and also of the Illinois State and the American
Medical Associations.

   Dr. Miller's father was Henry Miller, a native of Hanover, Germany, who was
born in 1836, and who died at Metropolis in 1909, universally respected and
esteemed. He came to the United States in 1856, stopped among the Germans in
Cincinnati for many years, and pushed on to Illinois just before the outbreak of
the Civil War. The greater portion of his long and well-ordered existence was
passed in the vigorous life of a farmer. His success led him in later life to
enter the banking business as one of the stockholders of the First National Bank
of Metropolis. Henry Miller married Minnie F. Thain, daughter of William Thain,
who was also of sturdy Teutonic descent. The children were: Dr. Miller, the
subject of this sketch; "William", whose location is unknown; George, who died
in Metropolis leaving a family; Henry; Benjamin, who died unmarried at
Metropolis; and Simon, a resident of LaMesa, New Mexico.

   Dr. Miller is highly regarded in fraternal circles, being a Mason of the
chivalric rank of Knights Templars, a Knight of Pythias and a Red Man. His life
is full and well-rounded with one exception. He has never fallen a victim to
Cupid's arrows. This, to the notion of his legion of friends, is the only rift
within the lute and they wish in all sincerity that it may be the way of
providence that in due time he may come to be the presiding spirit of a happy
home, and arrive at the full meaning of good citizenship in all that the term
implies.


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A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal
Interests

BY
George Washington Smith, M. A.
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1912

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