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BIOGRAPHIES: Harrison C. Miller, Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGENWEB Archives Project by Mike Miller, DEC 1997.



Harrison C. Miller 
          Tensas Parish, Louisiana 
    Harrison C. Miller, Highland, La., is an influential planter and
merchant of Tensas parish, and uniting the desirable qualities of
intellectual force and business ability, has achieved unusual success.
He is the son of G. W. Miller and was born in Natchez, Miss., in 1840.
The father was a native of the blue grass regions of Kentucky, born in
1810, and in 1836 he was married to Miss Malinda E. Smith.  At an early
date he moved to Natchez, Miss., and in partnership with his elder
brothers engaged in merchandising.  In 1840 he entered and bought land
in Concordia parish.  He received his final summons in 1876 and his wife
survived him until 1887.  He was a son of John Miller.  Harrison C.
Miller received his literary education in Geneva, Switzerland, and his
medical education at Tours, France.  While in the last named city the
Civil war broke out in the United States, and having the Southern cause
at heart he left his studies and returned to his native land, never to
return to complete his education.  He enlisted in the Adams' cavalry of
Mississippi and his division was known as Jefferson Davis' legions.  He
was in service during the entire war and was paroled at Greensboro, N.
C., in 1865.  He was in what was known as the Virginia campaign.  After
the war Mr. Miller engaged in merchandising in Natchez, but remained
there only one year.  Since that time he has turned his entire attention
to planting and merchandising and has made a complete success of both
enterprises.  He located in Tensas parish in 1869, and there he has made
his home ever since.  He was married in 1884 to Miss Florence May,
daughter of James and Eliza May, and one son, Harrison C. Jr., has been
born to bless this happy union.  Mr. Miller is pleasant and social in
his intercourse with all, is a fine conversationalist, and comes of a
prominent family.  He and wife are well respected in the community.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
257. 
Submitted by Mike Miller