MANDERVILLE T. MILLER

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 348-349

MANDERVILLE T. MILLER. From the records of the hu-
man race handed down from the earliest days it is gathered
that the clergy have given more or less of their time and
attention to educating the masses. In fact, for centuries
all of the learning was confined to the priesthood. In more
recent times the custom has prevailed of selecting clergy-
men to hold chairs in institutions ,of learning, as well as to
give individual instruction, but Boone County has shown
a further appreciation of the profession by electing as its
county superintendent Rev. Manderville T. Miller, a min-
ister of the Baptist denomination and an educator of long
standing in this locality.

The birth of Manderville T. Miller took place at Low
Gap, Boone County, West Virginia, December 31, 1879, and
he is a son of Silvanus and Susan (Pauley) Miller, both
natives of Virginia and members of old families of the
South. The Millers are of Holland Dutch descent and the
Pauleys of French origin. Silvanus Miller was a farmer,
and a man who always took a dominating part in public
affairs. He served as constable and member of the school
board for a number of years, and was equally prominent
in the Baptist Church of Turtle Creek, West Virginia,
which he long served as a deacon. His death occurred at
Low Gap in April, 1906.

Manderville T. Miller is a self-made man, and one who
has worked hard to secure the education he so desired.
After he completed his studies in the common schools of
Low Gap he attended the summer normal school at Madison,
and in 1896 secured a certificate to teach. From then on
he has been an educator, and has continued to be a stu-
dent, taking different courses by correspondence with the
Concord State Normal School at Athens, West Virginia.
All of his educational work has been done in Boone County,
and in 1918 he was elected to his present office for a four-
year term. He has thirty graded schools and 150 teachers
under his supervision, and these schools have from two to
four rooms. As before stated, Mr. Miller is a minister of
the Baptist Church, and has charges at Seth, Whitesville
and Chelyan, West Virginia, where he is doing mission field
work and accomplishing remarkable results. He is an elo-
quent preacher, and his earnest sincerity is very convincing
whether his subject be a religious or a secular one.

In 1899 Mr. Miller married at Turtle Creek, West Vir-
ginia, Flora Roberts, a daughter of John and Martha Rob-
erts, farming people who both live in West Virginia. Mr.
and Mrs. Miller have nine children, namely: Orin, Mollie,
May, Norma, Opal, Ruby, Haddon, Frank and Albert Sid-
ney. Of these children Orin married Ivy McClure of Lincoln
County, West Virginia. They are living at Madison, where
he is assistant station agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad. Mr. Miller has been a life-long member of the
Baptist Church.  He belongs to Odell Lodge, No. 115,
A. F. and A. M., of Madison. It would be difficult to speak
too highly of Mr. Miller's work and the good influence he
exerts on the life of his community. A born educator, he
possesses the faculty of not only imparting information,
but also of stimulating a desire for further knowledge,
and he is also able to secure the hearty cooperation of his
teachers in his efforts to further advance the standards of
the Boone County schools and the rating of the pupils. As
a clergyman he is equally zealous, and in these two lines
of endeavor is rendering Madison and Boone County a most
effective service.


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