MAHONING COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: MILLER, Jesse S. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 138

        HON. JESSE S. MILLER, one of the prominent members of the Alliance
bar for over twenty years, is also known outside that city for his able
work as a legislator, having served two terms in the Legislature as a
representative of Stark County.
        Mr. Miller was born at North Benton in Mahoning County, Ohio,
January 23, 1865, son of Jacob F. and Isabella T. (Sproat) Miller. He was
reared in a country district, acquired his first educational advantages
there, and from 1885 to 1890 was a student in Mount Union College at
Alliance, and attended Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, from 1893 to
1895, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy
degrees. Mr. Miller was admitted to the Ohio bar March 17, 1899, and to the
United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio on February
28, 1901. He has been engaged in individual practice as an attorney at
Alliance since May 31, 1900.
        Mr. Miller represented Stark County in the Legislature in the
Eighty-second and Eighty-third General Assemblies. He is author of the
Miller Utility law passed in 1919, a measure forbidding discontinuance of
service by any public utility without the consent and approval of the State
Utilities Commission. He is also author of the bill creating municipal
courts in Alliance and Massillon. This measure has permitted an important
economy of judicial arrangements, since it consolidates all the courts of
small cities with the adjoining townships into a single jurisdiction, with
extensive powers. The courts established under the act primarily proved so
satisfactory that a similar system has been adopted by Akron, Newark,
Portsmouth, Zanesville, Canton, Warren and East Liverpool, Ohio.
        Mr. Miller at one time was a private in Company H, of the Eighth
Regiment in the Ohio National Guard, he is a Knight Templar Mason at
Alliance, a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and was
founder of the Wooster chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served
as city solicitor of Alliance from 1902 to 1906. In politics he is a
republican. He belongs to the Alliance, the Stark County, and Ohio State
Bar Associations.
        Mr. Miller married Miss Olive G. Ruff, of Shreve, Ohio, August 8,
1895. Their four children are Jessie M., Harold M., Ruth A., and Eugene C.

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