Bio: Hugh Miller, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Hugh Miller is the proprietor of a well-conducted mercantile establishment 
at Millerton, La.  He was born in Marion County, Ala., in 1855, being one in 
a family of eleven children born to John and Cassie (Guyton) Miller, who were 
born in Alabama and South Carolina, respectively, the former being a son of 
John Miller, a native of Ireland, who came to America at an early day and settled 
in the Palmetto State.  Hugh Miller came to this State and parish in 1870, with 
his parents, and located in the neighborhood of Athens, where they made their 
home for two years, then came to near where Hugh is now doing business, and 
here the father passed from life in January, 1890, being still survived by his 
widow.  Hugh opened his present establishment to the public in 1883, on a not 
very extensive scale, and now has a store well stocked with an excellent line 
of goods.  In 1878 he was married to Miss Mary E. Neil, and by her is the father 
of the following children: Olive N., Banny E., Iler, H.Carl, Clyde and Clarence, 
the baby.  In his political views Mr. Miller has long been a Democrat, and at all 
times supports the men and measures of that party.  Although he is a young man, 
he is rapidly making his way to the front among the energetic business men of this 
community; and although only thirty-five years of age he has built up a large and 
paying patronage, and by attending strictly to each minor detail of his chosen 
calling can not fail to succeed.  His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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