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Author: Will T. Hale

   JAMES T. MILLER. An able and representative member of the bar of his native

state, Mr. Miller is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the

city of Nashville, where he established his residence in the year 1909.



   Mr. Miller was born on a farm near Hartsville, Trousdale county, Tennessee,

on the 5th of September, 1871, and is a son of George W. and Lucy (Harris)

Miller, the former of whom was born at North Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana,

and the latter at Hartsville, Tennessee, a daughter of Andrew Harris, who was of

stanch Virginia stock and who was numbered among the early settlers of Trousdale

county, Tennessee. The paternal grandparents were Daniel and Sarah Goodwin

Miller, the former of whom was born in Maine and the latter in Massachusetts and

both having been representatives of colonial families in New England, that

gracious cradle of much of our national history. Daniel Miller was one of the

sterling pioneers of Indiana and both he and his wife continued to reside in the

Hoosier state until their death. George W. Miller learned in his youth the trade

of cabinetmaker and he came to Tennessee when a young man. Here he became one of

the representative agriculturists of Trousdale county, and for a number of years

he was engaged in the general merchandise business also. When the Civil war was

precipitated he gave unqualified allegiance to the cause of the Confederacy, and

he served as a valiant soldier of the Second Tennessee Infantry from the first

battle of Bull Bun to the close of the war. George W. and Lucy Miller both died

near Hartsville, Tennessee. He believed in religion deeply, but was not a member

of a church. Mrs. Miller was a devout member of the Baptist church. Of the three

children, all of whom are living, James T. of this review was the second in

order of birth.



   James T. Miller was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and

gained his early education in the public schools of his native county and

thereafter he continued his studies for a few years in the Hartsville Masonic

Institute, one of the well ordered educational institutions of that section of

the state. In the meanwhile his ambition had become quickened with an earnest

desire to prepare himself for the legal profession, rather than to pay

allegiance to the great basic industry under whose influences he had been

reared. He accordingly began reading law at Hartsville at night, while he worked

by day, and he made rapid and substantial progress in his absorption of and

assimilation of the science of jurisprudence, with the result that in 1896 he

proved himself eligible for and was admitted to the bar of his native state. He

forthwith engaged in practice at Hartsville, his native town and the judicial

center of Trousdale county, and he soon won his professional spurs. He built up

a substantial practice at Hartsville, where he continued his labors until 1909,

when he removed to the city of Nashville, in order to obtain a wider sphere of

professional endeavor. Here his success has been unequivocal and he now controls

an excellent practice, with a clientage of representative order. He has appeared

in connection with a number of important litigations since establishing his

residence in Nashville and is known as a strong and versatile trial lawyer.



   Mr. Miller has been a zealous and effective worker in behalf of the cause of

the Democratic party, even as he was in that of the Populist party during the

period of the latter's activities. In 1908 he became a candidate for nomination

on the Democratic ticket for representative of his district in the United States

congress, and he came within fifteen votes of receiving the nomination, thus

making a splendid showing, as the total number of votes cast was fully eighteen

thousand. Though not formally identified with any religious body, Mr. Miller has

the deepest reverence for the spiritual verities as represented in the Christian

faith, and in early life he made a confession of faith.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913

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