Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Frank Clark, Atty. December 20, 1935
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Portland Observer-Thurs. Dec. 26, 1935

WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY OF COUNTY DIES
Frank C.Miller Passed Away Suddenly Friday While In Clarksville

HAD PRACTICED LAW IN COUNTY OVER 50 YEARS
Had Held Offices Of Prosecutor, State Representative, And Ionia Mayor

Frank C. Miller, 75, prominent Ionia county attorney, died suddenly Friday afternoon
at Clarksville, where he had driven from Ionia with Glenn D. Mathews and Raymond
Barnes, court stenographer, on business in connection with the Henry C. Walter estate.
Funeral services were held from the late home Monday afternoon, the bearers being made up
from members of the Ionia county bar, with Ex-Governor Fred W. Green and Fred A. Chapman
acting as honorary members.

Mr. Miller was born at Burlington, Iowa, but came to Michigan with his parents when
a boy. His boyhood days were spent  in Kent and Clinton counties, where he attended school
and worked on farms. He taught school in the rural sections of Ionia county for a time
but later entered the law offices of Morse, Wilson and Trowbridge of Ionia to gain rudiments
of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and from that time on practiced  law almost 
continuously in this county. He became one of the leaders in his profession in the
State and his council was frequently sought on many important legal matters.

He served Ionia county as Circuit court commissioner, as assistant prosecutor and as
prosecuting Attorney, and he represented the county in 1909-1910 in the House of 
Representatives at Lansing. He served the city of Ionia as Alderman, city treasurer
and as Mayor, and for 13 years filled the position of city Attorney. He was for several
years a member of the county Republican committee and its fraternities and business and
social groups. At the time of his death he was a member of Ionia lodge No. 36, Free and
Accepted Masons; Ionia Commandery No. 11,, Ionia chapter No. 14, Royal and Arch Masons;
Knights Templar; Queen Father chapter No. 35, Order of Eastern Star; DeWitt Clinton
Consistery, of Grand Rapids, and Saladin Temple, of Grand Rapids, all Masonic orders; of the
Knights and Ladies of Security, and of Ionia lodge 518, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
of which he was a life member and past exalted ruler.  Of the Knights and Ladies of
Security he was some years ago a member of the supreme board, the National governing body of
the order. He had been a member of the Modern Woodmen, of the Knights of Pythias, 
among others with which he had affiliated at various times.

For many years he had been one of the active members of the Church of Christ of
Ionia in which he had held various offices, at the time of his death being a member of the
board of trusties.

He was a director of the Ionia Building and Loan association and vice-President and
director in the Ionia County National Bank of Ionia, in the organization of which he
was an active influence.

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