MILLER,   E.D.
                        Lake Charles, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 173.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


E.D.Miller. Lake Charles - Edmund D. Miller, a prominent lawyer of Lake Charles,
was born in Cameron, then Vermilion parish, January 27, 1855.  He is the son of
Peter V.  and Emilia (Broussard) Miller, natives of St. Landry and Vermilion
parishes respectively.  Our subject's mother died in 1875.   His father is a
large planter and stock raiser of Cameron parish.  During the late war he was in
active service, having joined the Seventh Louisiana Infantry in 1861.  He was
taken prisoner at Vicksburg and paroled, and afterward exchanged.  He again
enlisted in the service of the heavy artillery.  His father, John Miller, was a
native of Germany.  
Edmund D. Miller, the subject of this sketch, is the second of a family of ten
children.  He attended private school in Cameron parish, and began life as a
sugar planter and stock raiser, in which he was engaged for three years.  In
1879 he was elected sheriff and collector of Cameron parish, and was reelected
in 1884.  He resigened in August, 1886..  During hes service as sheriff
he purchased a course of law study, and in 1887-88 attended law lectures at
Tulane University, in New Orleans, graduating from that institution in 1888. 
The same year he was admitted to the bar in New Orleans before the supreme court
of the State.  He located in Lake Charles, July, 1888, and began to practise his
profession.  He practises in the local and supreme courts, and is one of
the leading members of the Lake Charles bar.  Mr. Miller is a member of the
Masonic fraternity of this place.  He was united in marriage in September, 1883,
with Miss Louella May Clark, of Lake Charles.