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(The Buell Line).
The family of Buell is very ancient. and branches exist in England. France, Spain and Germany. There are some thirty-eight differ- ent ways in which the name is spelled. In Spain it is spelled Buil and Bueil; in France Dual and Buol: in England, Bewelle, Bevile. Bevill and Deville : in Germany. Buebal. Buhle. etc. : in German it is pronounced Deal : in New Eugiand Ruel. Buell and Rewel are all t-ed. The coat-of-arms of the English family is: Az- ure. sowed with fleurs de lys, argent, with lion conchant, guks. The family of Bevilles in England is very ancient. Robert Beville was
knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire in 1410. It is supposed that William Buell, the immigrant, was a descendant of this family. ( Some of his descendants speli the family name Buel. )
( III) Deacon John Buell, son of Samuel Buell, was born at Killingworth, February 17, 1071. About 1695 he removed to Lebanon. Connecticut, and in 1721 purchased two rights of land in Litchfield, whence he removed. and was a pioneer. He was one of the petitioner- to settle a town west of Farmington. called Bantam. In into he was one of the founder ; of Litchfield. He died there April 0. 1746. He married, at Windsor, November 20, 1695. Mary Loomis, born Jannary 5. 10;0, died No- vember. 1768, daughter of Thomas and Han- nah ( Porter) Loomis. Her gravestone in the West burying ground at Litchfield bears this inscription: "Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary. wife of Deacon John Buell. She died! November 4. 1768, actat ninety, having had :3 children, Ict grandchildren. 274 great-grand- children, and 22 great-great-grandchildren ..
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336 of whom were surviving at her death". Children. the last born at Litchfield the others at Lebanon : Mary, December 11, 1696: Joh !. February I, Hogy. mentioned below : Isaac. March 27, 1701; Abigail, March 26. 1702; Ilannah, December 7, 1703: Lois, March 12. 1700: Deborah, January 24, ITOS: Peter, May 22, 1710: Ebenezer, March 16, 1713 ; Solomon, August 30. 1715: Jonathan. December 15, . 1717 : Elizabeth, April 27, 1720; Rachel. May 22. 1723.
(IV) John (2). son of Deacon John (1) Buell, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut. Feb- ruary 1. IGo. died at Lebanon. He married, at Lebanon. May 19. 1726, Freedom Strong. born May 16. 1704, daughter of Jedediah and Abialı (Ingersol) Strong. Children, born at Lebanon: John. August 31, 1727 : Freedom. June 23. 1729: Oliver, January 24, 1732: Abraham. February 19. 1734. mentioned be- low: Isaac. April 5. 1736; Jacob, April 30, 1739: David. May 16, 1741 : Ezra. April 2. 1744; Lois, February 8. 1747.
(V) Abraham, son of John (2) Buell, was born at I ebanon. February 19, 1734. He re- moved to Litchfield. Connecticut, and thence. in 1773. to Groton, New Hampshire, where he died about 1815. It is said that he occu- pied at Groton a temporary hut for the sum- mer, while erecting a substantial log house for a permanent residence. His wife com- plained that it was the same height as their neighbor's and it was then built one log higher. that it might be the tallest house in town. He married, in Litchfield. May 20, 1759. Sarah, Stone. of Litchfield. Children, the first five born in Litchfieldl, the others in Groton: Asa- hel, December 18, 1761 ; Huldah. February 10, 1764: Dorcas. December 11. 1,65: Annice. December 3. 1767 : Ezra. September IS, 1760. mentioned below : Enos, March II. 1772 ; Lois. October 1. 1775: Sally. January 12, 1779: Salmon, April 25, 1782.
(VI) Ezra, son of Abraham Buell, was born at Litchfield. September 18, 1769. He went with his father to Groton in 17;3. Ile resided for a time in Hanover. New Hamp- shire, and returned in 1800 to Groton. Ile removed to Kinsman, Ohio, in 1810. and aft- erwards to Hartstown, Pennsylvania. where he died November 16, 1865. He taught the first school where Dartmouth College nns stands, and was a teacher most of the time for sixty years. Ho voted at every presidential election from Washington's second election to Lincoln's second election. He was drafted in Harrison's campaign, and was assigned commissary and baker of the flour department, and was always a great friend of Harrison. "Hle frequently said he heard the roar of the
cannons at Bunker Hill, related many juci- dents of Harrison's campaign, but was never aware of the war of the Rebellion". He mar- ried in 1794. Dorothy, daughter of Deacon Benjamin Sanborn, of Deerfield, New Ilamp- shire. Children, born at Hanover, New Hampshire: Theodate, died young ; Dorothy, died young; Franklin, died young. Born at Groton: Theodate, May 20. 1801, married Andrew Lin (see Linn IV ) ; Franklin. April 7. 1803: Cyrus, February 20, 1805; Dorothy, January 14, 1807.
Among the earliest New Eng- MILLER land colonists. the Miller fam- ily was represented, although up to the present time neither the exact date of their coming nor whence they came can be accurately determined. In all probability they emigrated from England, though family tradition has it that William Miller's origin was Scotch. One William Miller, aged twen- ty-nine, came from London to America in 1635 on the ship "George". under Captain Joe Severne. They were bound for Virginia. but the immigrant vessels of that period did not always land at their intended destinations, so that this may have been the William men- tioned below. As early as 1646. in Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts, there lived Thomas Miller, who came supposedly from Birmingham, Worcester county, England, and was one of the original settlers of Middle- town, Connecticut, about 1650. It may be presumed that he and William were related. In the "New England Historical and Genea- logical Register." vol. i. p. 12s. under Mr. Water's "Genealogical Gleanings in England". the name of William Miller occurs, and in volumes 1 and li the nantes belonging to the old Bible records are curious, if they do not show some connection with this branch. In 1650 another Thomas Miller had settled in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1636 there was a John Miller in Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, and another of the same name settled in East Hampton, Long Island, during the same year.
(I) William Miller, the emigrant ancestor. lived in 1646 or earlier. in Ipswich. Es-ex county. Massachusetts, where he was that year paid for affrighting the Indians. Ile was in 1648 one of Denison's subscribers. It is pos- sible that he had been in Connecticut earlier or later than that date. However it may have been. our William Miller in 1653 was one of the original petitioners to inhabit and settle Nonotuck, north of Springfield. on the Connecticut river, now Northampton, Hanip- shire county. Massachusetts. He was pre-
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ent at the first meeting of the planters, held either at Springfield or at Hartford. October 3, 1653. With his wife Patience and his two young daughters he went to Northampton about 1654. It is evident that William Miller was prominent in the affairs of his section. He was made a member of the first board of townsmen, elected December 11, 1055; then elected deputy constable : was one of the orig- inal petitioners to settle Northfield, Massa- chusetts, in 16;1, and when Squakbeag (Northfield) was resettled in the spring of 1683, William Miller held fifty-five acres there. In the records of Northfield we find that Patience, wife of William Miller. was skilled as a physician and surgeon. She was the only doctor in the two above-mentioned settlements, and was the first and only wom- an physician of the time in America. William Miller, who was a tanner, lived on the east side of King street, alout the site of the Young Men's Christian Association building, in Northampton. He occupied two acres ex- tending from the highway to the brook on Market street, and two acres on the west side of the brook at Park street. Nearby there was a place called "Miller's Den", whose southern boundary was Park street. Most of the settlers of Northampton, Massachusetts, came from Connecticut. It was in Northamp- ton, on July 15. 1600, that William Miller died, and li- will, which is on file in the Northampton probate office (vol. ii) is dated July 16 1686. No record is extant of his marriage. but his wife is named as sole ex- ecutrix, and his real estate in Northampton and in Northfield. Massachusetts, and Weth- ersfield (that part which is now Glaston- bury), Connecticut, was entailed to her after her death. We find no mention of her maiden name, but she died in Northampton, March 29. 1716, "quite aged". according to record. Children, all born in Northampton, with the exception of the first two:
I. Mary; married (first) December IS. 1672, Zebadiali Williams, son of Arthur. of Northampton : ( second) November 28. 1677, Godfrey Nims, of Deerfield. Massachusetts. She died in Deerfield, April 27, 1688. In the massacre of February 20. 1704. some of her children were murdered and others taken cap- tive.
2. Rebeckah. died in Northampton, August, 1657.
3. Patience, horn September 15. 1657: mar- ried, March 28, 1683. in Wethersfield. Con- necticut. Sergeant John Nott. son of John of Wethersfield.
4. William, born November 30. 1650: mar- ried April 19. 1003, in Saybrook. Connecti-
cut, Mary Bushnell, daughter of John, of Saybrook, and soon settled on lands in Weth- erstield ( Glastonbury ), Connecticut, which his father had purchased by 1000. He died there August 22, 1705, and his widow married, by 1713, Joseph Butler, widower, of Wethers- field. William Miller fr. has many descend- ants living in Glastonbury and Hartford coun- ty, Connecticut, to-day.
5. Mercy, born February 8, 1662; married. November 29, 1688, John Fowler, son of Am- brose, of Westfield, Massachusetts.
6. Ebenezer, see forward.
7. Mehitable, born Juh 10. 1666: married, January 15, 1690, in Westfield. Massachu- setts, Thomas Josiah Dewey, of Westfield. In 1066 the Dewey family removed to Lebanon. Connecticut. Admiral George Dewey. the hero of Manila Bay. is in descent from their oldest son. William Dewey.
8. Thankful, born April 25. 1669: married. January 12, 1693, Jonathan Alvord, son of Alexander, of Northampton, Massachusetts.
9. Abraham, born January 20. 1671-72: married. January 1. 1698 or 1699. Hannah Clapp, daughter of Elder Preserved and Sar- ah ( Newberry) Clapp, of Northampton, Mas- sachusetts. He died there February 7. 1726- 27. Abraham Miller's second son, Abraham, removed with his family to Northington Par- ish, of Farmington, Connecticut, about 1748, and his youngest son. Zebadiani was of the earliest settlers of Southampton, Ma-sachi- setts, and with three of his sons was a sol- dier in the American Revolution. On Novem- ber 16, 1910. a beautiful memorial mommaent of Barre granite was erected on the ancient family lot in Bridge Street Cemetery, North- ampton, Massachusetts. by the descendants. 10 William and Patience Miller : thereon is chis- eled nearly five hundred letters of history. in- cluding the names of the above mentioned children.
( II) Ebenezer, second son and sixth child of William and Patience Miller, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. June 7. 1064. and died there December 23. 1737. His en- tire life was spent in Northampton, where he was as a husbandman. He married in North- ampton. Massachusetts, February 9. 168S. Sarah. born in Northampton. Massachusetts, July 28, 1668, and died there. August 21. 1718, daughter of Samuel 2 ( Samuel In and Han- nah ( Woodford) Allen. Children all born in Northampton, Massachusetts :
I. Sarah, born 1680, died June 1. 1724 ( from oldest known gravestone of the family, in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton ).
2. Mary, born 1600: married, February 27, 1723, Daniel (3) King. ( William 2. John I)
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of Northampton; she died there November 22, 1773.
3. Jolin, born January 12, 1692, died Oc- tober 23, 1696.
4. Ebenezer, see forward.
5. Patience, born 1698: married. August 30, 1727, Samuel Fairfield, son of Walter. She died October 28. 1733, in Hatfield, Mas- sachusetts.
6. Hannah, born August 20, 1700, died in Avon, Connecticut unmarried.
7. Captain Jonathan, born March 12, 1703 (?), married, January 1, 1727. his first cousin. Sarah Ann Allen. daughter of Samuel 3 (Samuel 2, Samuel I) and Sarah ( Rust ) Al- len. He died November 14, 1787. in North- ington Parish of Farmington. Connecticut, whither he had removed with his family in 1745. Captain Jonathan's oldest son Jona- than, of Farmington (Avon), Connecticut. was a soldier in the American Revolution, and his youngest son and child. Rev. Simeon, was graduated from Yale College in 1762. the second of the Miller name on the rolls of that institution. In 1778, from Manchester, he was a member of the Massachusetts con- vention for the ratification of the federal con- stitution. He was a Universalist preacher.
8. Joseph, born June 7, 1705 : married No- vember 14. 1734. Sarah Allis, daughter of Ichabod, of Hatfield. Massachusetts. He died December 15. 1737. in Northampton.
9. Aaron boin November 6. 1707-08. died unmarried, February 7. 1779. in Williams- burg. Massachusetts. He was a cordwainer.
IO. John, born I711-12: married. April 18. 1754. Martha Root, daughter of Hezekiah. of Northampton ; died April 7. 1792. in Wil- liamsburg, Massachusetts, aged eighty years. He was the founder of Williamsburg, Massa- chusetts. in 1735. and his sons Stephen and John were soldiers of the American revolu- tion.
(III ) Deacon Ebenezer, second son and fourth child of Ebenezer and Sarah ( Allen) Miller. was born in Northampton. Massachu- setts. August 15. 1606, and died in Farming- ton (Avon) Connecticut. February 26, 1777. He was a farmer in Northampton. Massachu- setts, and a deacon in Rev. Jonathan Edwards' church there until 1747, when he removed with his family to Northington Parish. Far- mington (now Avon), Connecticut, and set- tled on the west side of the highway running north and south near Cider brook on the Far- mingtou river, and we-t of Talent: mountain. to which place his brother. Captain Jonathan Miller. had removed in 1745 from Northamp- ton and settled on the East side of the high- way. He first bought one hundred acres of
land there near Folly swamp, for £7oo, from Edward Parks, of Farmington, Connecticut, the deed being recorded October 7, 1747. Ilis will, dated February 3, 1775, probated April 8. 1777, mentions his second wife Elizabeth, who survived him. (Farmington, Connecti- cut. probate office.) He and his brother Jon- athan and their sons aided in building the first church in Northington Parish, not far from their homes. soon after 1750. Rev. Ebenezer Booge ( famous revivalist) was the first pastor. This church burned in ISIS. Ile married (first) in Northampton. Massachu- setts, May 8, 1725. Hannah. born in North- ampton, Massachusetts, August 1, 1700, died in Farmington (Avon), Connecticut, dangli- ter of Henry and Mary Burt. of Northamp- ton ; (second) in Farmington ( Avon) Con- necticut, November 15. 1764. Elizabeth, wid- ow of Thomas Norton, of Farmington, and daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Treat) Deming. of Wethersfield, Connecticut, born March 6. 1706, in Wethersfield. Children, all by the first marriage. born in Northampton, Massachusetts :
I. Sarah, born 1726, died October 18. 1776, in Farmington ( Avon ) Connecticut ; married, May 31, 1753. Noah Hart, son of Joseph, of Farmington ( Avon ).
2. Elizabeth, born about 1728. married, July 5. 1751, Ebenezer Huntington, son of John, of Farmington, Connecticut.
3. Phoebe, born about 1730: died Decem- ber 12. 1808. in Farmington (Avon) Con- necticuit : married. November 18. 1754, Medah Hart, son of Joseph of Farmington ( \von).
4. Reuben, see forward
5. Noah. born June 22. 1732. died Far- mington ( Avon) Connecticut, May 22, 1812; married, April 9. 1760, Anne Buell, daughter of Samuel, of Simsbury, Connecticut.
6. Joh, died young.
7. Job (2), born February 21. 1730-37; died April 17, 1814. in Southwick, Massachu- setts : married Hannah Hamlin, who died in Southwick in 1808.
8. Joseph, born in 1738, died in Farming- ton ( AAvon) Connecticut. Angust 9, 1,75: married. 1768. his first cousin. Anne Miller, daughter of Captain Jonathan, of Farming- ton ( Avon).
9. Mary, born August 14. 1740.
Io. Ebenezer. died October 29. 1746. in Farmington ( Won).
(IV) Reuben. eldest son and fourth child of Ebenezer and Hannah (Burt) Miller, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. about 1731, and died in Farmington (Avon) Con- necticut. April 6. 1800. He was a farmer on the homestead near Cider brook, Northington
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Parish (since 1830-Avon), Farmington, Connecticut. His will is on file in the Far- mington probate office. He married (first) in Farmington (Avon) Connecticut. Jannary 15, 1757. his first cousin. Sarah. born in Northampton, Massachusetts, December 18, 1733, died in Farmington (Avon), Connecti- cut, August 5. 1797. daughter of Captain Jonathan and Sarah Ann ( Allen) Miller, of Farmington (Avon) : (second ) Keziali , who survived him. Children, all by first marriage, born in Farmington (AAvon), Connecticut :
I. Sarah, born February 21. 1759. died April 22, 1819, Farmington ( Avon ) Con- necticut : married, March 13. 1777, Charles Woodford, son of John, of Farmington (Avon).
2. Olive. born April 14, 1761, died in Far- mington (Avon), Connecticut. April 6. 1832; married. May 8, 1783, Samuel Woodford, son of Captain William, of Farinington (Avon).
3. Eleanor, born July 5. 1763. died in East Hartford. Connecticut, July 20, 1836; mar- ried, October 9. 1781. Samuel Phelps, son of Timothy, of Simsbury, Connecticut.
4. Solomon, born June 9, 1766, died in Hartland. Connecticut, August 20, 1845 : mar- ried his second cousin. Lydia Miller, daugh- ter of Jonathan Jr .. of Farmington (Avon). 5. Ebenezer, see forward.
(V) Ebenezer, second son and fifth and youngest child of Reuben and Sarah ( Miller) Miller, was born in Farmington ( Avon), Connecticut, March 30. 1768, and died in Avon, Connecticut, January 11, 1851. He was a farmer in Northington Parish, Far- mington, Connecticut, was a deacon of the Avon church, and was familiarly known as "Old Nezer."
Ebenezer Miller married ( first ) in Sims- bury. Connecticut, September 25. 1788. Di- anthe, born in Simsbury, August 3, 1770. died in Avon, Connecticut. November 6, 1837. daughter of John and Sarah (Dver ) Hutch- inson :. (second) in 1838. Alleluia ( Dyer) Humphrey, widow of Frederick Humphrey, of Canton, and daughter of Thomas and Azu- bad ( Humphrey) Dyer. of West Simsbury, Connecticut, born there in 1773 or 1775 : died in Avon, Connectient, December 24. 1846. Children, all by the first marriage, born in Farmington ( Avon) Connecticut :
1. Sarah, born October 20. 1789. died in Avon, Connecticut, January 2 ;. 183! : mar- ried (first ) about 1816, Richard Humphrey, son of Michael of Simsbury, Connecticut.
2. Ebenezer, see forward.
3. John Hutchinson, born February 11,
1795. died in von, Connecticut, November 27. 1859: married Levia Slocum.
4. Dianthe, born April 24. 1797. died tin- married, in Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1875.
5. Nancy, born August 14, 1799. died in Avon, Connecticut, January 13, 18;9: mar- ried Luther Woodford, of Avon.
6. Cynthia, born February 14. 1802. died in Haydenville, Massachusetts, March 12, 1872: married Esdras Fairfield, of Hayden- ville.
7. Truman Harlow, born January 12. 1805; died in Avon, Connecticut. January 7. 1852 : married Julia A. Chapin. Their son. Emery Francis Miller, is now living on the original Ebenezer Miller homestead in Avon, and an- other son, Charles H. Miller, lives across the road from his brother, on the Captain Jona- than Miller homestead. Nearby is the an- cient burying ground.
S. Thede, born May 29. 1807, died unmar- ried. in Hartford, Connecticut. May 9. 1876.
0. Virgil J. IL., born March 29. 1810, was struck by lightning in Farmington (Avon), Connecticut, July 5. 1827.
IO. Betsey Mori, born December 24. 1812, died October 13. 1872: married Ephraim Woodruff. of New Britain, Connecticut.
II. Eliza Ann. born April 18, 1815. died in Hartford. Connecticut. October 10. 1886; married Hiram F. Chappell of Hartford.
(VT) Ebenezer, eldest son and second child of Ebenezer and Dianthe ( Hutchinson) Mil- ler, was born in Farmington ( Avon), Con- Hecticut. August 16. 1792, and diel in Avon, Connecticut. October 20. 1853. Hc was a farmer in \von. He married (first ) October, 1817, Ruth, born in West Hart- land. Connecticut, May 21. 1701, died in Avon, March 9. 1835, daughter of
Abraham and Dolly ( Booge) Osborn. He married (second ) Anna, born in Farmington, Connecticut, December 9, 1792, died in Avon. Connecticut. August 4. 1864. daughter of Hooker Frisbie. Children all by first mar- riage :
I. Ebenezer Rooge. see forward.
2. Harriet Amrilous, born in Farmington (Avon ) Connecticut. August 16, 1821, died in Woodbridge. Connecticut. November, 1865, married Henry Hickox, of Wood- bridge.
3. Captain Franklin Publius, born in Far- mington ( Av n' Connecticut. September 18, 1823. died of yellow fever at Galveston. Tex- as. October 15. 1854.
1. Gains Phelps, born in Farmington ( Avon). Connecticut. January 14, 1828. died in Hartford, Connecticut, October 12, 1884,
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married (first) Anna Burke: (second) Julia Chipman.
5. Fidelia Ruth. born in Farmington (Avon) Connecticut, January 14, 1828, died in Torrington, Connecticut, March 16, 1900. married Harlem Wallace Brace, of Torring- ton, who died May 15, 1907.
6. Dolly Diantha, born in Farmington, (Avon) Connecticut. March 18, 1829, mar- ried Joseph Roberts, of Middletown, Con- necticut. She is living ( 1911) in Middle- town.
7. Henry Vigil, born in Avon, Connecti- cut. August 27. 1830, and died there shortly after 1900: married Ilelen -, who died January 31. IOII.
8. Jane Julia, born in Avon, Connecticut, April 23. 1832. died in Ansonia, Connecti- cut, August 6, 1858 : married Erwin W. Web- ster. who died in Ansonia, October 21, 1909. aged seventy-four years.
(VII) Ebenezer Booge, eldest child of Ebenezer and Ruth ( Osborn ) Miller, was born in Granby, Connecticut, March 6, 1819. and died in Hartford, Connecticut, January 22, 1883. Early in life he was a farmer in Avon, Connecticut. and later a merchant and manufacturer in Hartford, Connecticut. He married ( first ) in Wethersfield. Connecticut. March 1. 1853. Sarah Jane, born in Wethers- field, August 8, 1831, died there January 18. 1855. daughter of Henry and Mary ( Welles) Deming. He married ( second ) in Wethers- field. March 4. 1856. Mayette Deming, born in Wethersfield. Connecticut. November 2S. IS28, a sister of his first wife. These sisters were descendants of the Treat. Hale. Lati- mer. Butler. Francis. Woodhouse, Blinn. Try- on, Welles and Standish families, and among their aneestors was Governor Tryon, of New York.
(VIII) Frank Ebenezer, only child of Eb- enezer Booge and Mayette (Deming) Mil- ler, born in Hartford. Connecticut, April 12. 1859. In 1881, after graduating from Trin- ity College. he entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of New York, and re- ceived his degree in 1884. When two years had been spent as medical and surgical interne at New York. Charity. and St. Francis Hospitals he' became sanitary inspector for the Depart- ment of Health, which position he held for three years. Dr. Miller then served as assist- ant under distinguished professors in New York Polyclinic, Vanderbilt Clinic, New York University and Post Graduate Hospitals. He then began to specialize in diseases of the throat, ear, and nose, and acted in the capac- ity of assistant to Doctors W. P. Swift. Ur- ban G. Hitchcock and R. P. Lincoln, the lat-
ter a throat specialist of distinction, also as- sistant to Professors Orin Pomeroy and L. Emmet Holt of the New York Polyclinic, Drs. John H. Ripley. George M. Lefferts, Joseph Howe and John Dorning. Dr. Miller was at- tending physician to the Minerva Home, to the Wayside Nursery. to St. Joseph's Hospital for several years and is now consulting phy- sician for St. Francis Hospital. In 1906 he was appointed visiting physician to the New York Hospital ; he is also ar present a mem- ber of the board of medical directors of the Loomis Sanatorium. Ile has had vast expe- rience in treatment of the throat, ear and nose, especially at the Vanderbilt and Bellevue Hos- pitals. He has been laryngologist to the Met- ropolitan College of Music since 1890. Dr. Miller began private practice in 1886; he has treated 180,000 patients in the past ten years. His vast practice includes all classes and walks of life. Side by side will be found in his books the names of Astor, Choate, De- Witt. Duncan, Frick, Potter, Thomas. Van- derbilt and Whitney: Caruso, Dalmores, Gar- den, Slezak and Williams : Cowl. Hearn, MIc- Creery, MeGibbon and Wanamaker, and rep- resentatives from China, Japan, India, Den- mark. Russia and South Africa. Such an in- mense following has been accomplished by this sturdy son of generations of sturdy an- cestry, singlehanded, without social or finan- cial aid, that one can but wonder at it. While a student at Hartford. Dr. Miller was sole tenor in the Glee Club at Trinity College : la- ter, while pursuing his medical course in New York. he was solo tenor of St. Thomas' Church. Fifth Avenue and 53d Street. I !- tense enthusiasm over music caused him to take a thorough study of the vocal organs and of the cultivation of the human voices : he establishes a principle of hollow space reso- nances which has gained authoritative recog- nition as the nearest approach to a perfect theory of voice production. He was first to advocate a regular standard for tone of voice production, by which any voice can be def- nitely measured and classified. Dr. Miller has outlined a new theory of the origin of nod- ules, from a study of 234 cases, which has been subsequently confirmed. He is author in collaboration of "A Compend of Nose. Throat and Ear Diseases" and has written many papers on the voice and vocal organs. He has lately published "The Voice". an in- teresting study of practical value, to the sing- er. To this book, Gustave Kobbe. the well- known critic, has written a preface in which he says :
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