Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 115

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MILLER, John Hunter:

Lawyer; born May 11, 1850, New Ro- chelle, N. Y .; son of Leonard P. Miller and Anna Le Count Miller; was grad- uated from Wesleyan University, 1871, and Columbia Law School 1873. Ad- mitted to the Bar, 1873. Corporation lawyer. Director Automobile Vending Co. and North American Loan and Trust Co. Member of City Bar Association. Residence, 301 W. 107th St .; office, 35 Wall St., N. Y. City.

MILLER, J. W:

Captain, commanding New York Naval Militia; born in Morristown, N. J., June 1, 1847 ; son of Honorable J. W. Miller, United States Senator from that State. Entered the Naval Academy Sept., 1863, graduating June, 1867. Lived the ordi- nary routine life of junior officer until 1872, serving on the European, Pacific, and West Indian stations; was appointed to special service in connection with the Nicaragua Inter-Ocean Canal in 1872; surveyed portion of the Western Di- vide and had charge of the hydrograph- ic work on the San Juan River. He re- turned to Nicaragua in the Autumn of 1873 as secretary to the commission ap- pointed by the United States government to determine which was the best route for a ship canal across the Isthmus; after competing this work he was engaged in Washington in writing the report on the Nicaragua canal. In 1875 he was ordered to the European squadron and served in the Mediterranean on board the Frank- lin. During winter of 1877-78 he was on board the Vandalia when General Grant visited the Levant in the course of his celebrated trip around the world. Hav- ing completed his three years of sea ser- vice in European waters he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy as instruc- tor of ordnance and gunnery, where he remained until 1881; in that year he was ordered once more to sea, and made his last cruise in the U. S. S. Jamestown as her navigator from San Francisco to New York, when that vessel came to the Atlan- tic under sail. After returning from this voyage he left the Navy and went to Kan- sas, where he became identified with rail- road interests, and was made vice-presi- dent and general manager of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad. He re- mained with this and other corporations in the West until May, 1886, when he was

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tendered and accepted the position of gen- Soon after being admitted to the Bar he eral manager of the Providence & Stoning- formed a law partnership with James Dougherty, under the firm name of Dough- erty & Miller; and this firm is still in existence ; Republican ; in 1898 was elected chairman of the Republican County Com- mittee of Cortland County ; became cor- poration counsel of the city of Cortland, and became comptroller of the State by the appointment of Governor Odell, on Dec. 30, 1901. In this office he has per- sonally cared for the numerous corpora- tion hearings which have come before the department and has also directed the va- rious proceedings, suits and compromises which grow out of the operation of the Transfer Tax Act. Married, on Nov. 4, 1896, Miss Elizabeth Daveran, of Mara- thon. Address, Cortland, N. Y. ton Steamship Company, and of the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad. In May, 1889, he was elected president of the Providence & Stonington Steamship Company. He is also president of the Nicaragua Company and the Newport & Wickford Railroad & Steamboat Com- pany, and has other marine and railroad interests. He took an active part in the development of the Naval Militia of this State; was the first commander of the New York Naval Battalion at its organi- zation in 1891, and is now captain of the Naval Militia of the State. He entered the Navy in 1898, during the Spanish-Ameri- can War as lieutenant commander and had command of the Third District Auxiliary Naval Force. In 1894 he was a member MILLER, Ransford Stevens: of the New York Chamber of Commerce Secretary of Legation, Japan; born 1870, in Ithaca, N. Y .; son of Ransford Stevens Miller; was graduated from Cor- nell, A. B., 1888. Married in 1894, Lily Murray. Teacher of Greek, Ithaca High School, 1885-88. General Secretary, Cor- nell Universty Christian Association, 1888- 90. Engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in To- kio, Japan, 1890-94. Interpreter, 1895- 1900, and Secretary of U. S. Legation, Japan, since 1900. Member of Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Council, Asiatic So- ciety of Japan. Address, U. S. Legation, Tokio, Japan. Committee on Docks and for several years has been on the Committee on Schoolship "St. Marys." He is a member of the fol- lowing clubs: the University, on the coun- cil of which club he served for many years; of the Century, and Seawanhaka; one of the council of the Naval Alumni Association of New York; Vice Com- mander of the Naval Order of the United States, and a member of the Societies of Foreign Wars, and of the Spanish-Amer- ican War; also member of several char- itable organizations, and served on com- mittes for the reception of foreign visi- MILLER, Samuel Fisher: tors, including that to the Princess Eulalie and Prince Henry. Address, 113 East 30th St., N. Y. City.

MILLER, Nathan L .:

Jurist; born Solon, Oct. 10, 1868, his father being a farmer. When four years old his parents removed their home to Groton, Tompkins County, and there he lived until he was thirteen years of age; attended the Groton school and then was graduated from the Cortland Normal School in 1877; after graduation he taught school one year. In Jan., 1890, he began the study of law with one of the leading law firms of Cortland County, that of Smith & Dickinson. Judge Smith, the head of the firm, was county judge and surrogate of Cortland County, and a Re- publican leader in the County. In 1893 he was admitted to practice as a lawyer; he then may be said to have entered political life, for he was elected in 1893 a school commissioner for the first commissioner district of Cortland County, and was re- elected in 1896; declined a renomination, his practice of law engaging his attention.

Contracting engineer; born Sept. 19, 1861, at Lake Forest, Ill .; educated at De Veaux College, Niagara Falls, Am- herst Colege and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Member of Engineers, New York Sketch, Mendelssohn Glee, Magnetic, Common Weauth of Richmond Va., Mummers, Orange, N. J., and Am- herst Alumni Association. Residence, South Orange, N. J .; office, St. James Building, 26th St. and Broadway, N. Y. City.

MILLER, Spencer:

Civil Engineer ; born April 25, 1859, at Waukeegan, Ill .; educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1879. Chief Engi- neer in cableway department of Lidger- wood Manufacturing Co. Designer and patentee of the Miller Conveyor for coal- ing at sea, which has been accepted by U. S. Navy after exhaustive sea trials. Member of Essex County (N. J.) Country and Engineers' Clubs, American Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Ameri- can Institute of Mining Engineers and So- ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En-

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gineers. Residence, South Orange, N. J .; MILLER, William E .: office, 96 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

MILLER, Theodore Frelinghuysen:

Banker; born 1850, N. Y. City; was graduated from College City of N. Y., 1867, and Columbia Law School, 1873. Practiced law until 1892 in N. Y. City. Secretary of Henry R. Worthington Co. since 1892. President of Brooklyn Trust Co. since 1900. Secretary and Director, Worthington Pumping Engine Co. Direc- tor, International Stcam Pump Co. and New York Filter Manufacturing Co. Mem- ber of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Hamilton, Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic, Lawyers, Manhattan and Engineers' Clubs and Ardsley Casino. Address, 1 West 54th St., N. Y. City.

MILLER, Warner:

Manufacturer; born Oswego County, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1838 ; educated at Union College. In 1860 at beginning of war en- listed in the fifth New York Cavalry; was promoted to lieutenant, but captured by the Confederates at battle of Winchester. Was soon honorably discharged and went abroad. After his return he engaged in paper manufacturing in Herkimer, N. Y. He was elected to the State legislature of 1874-75 and to the Forty-sixth and Forty- seventh Congresses. In 1881 he was elect- ed to the United States Senate, serving un- til 1887 ; in 1882 was instrumental in pass- ing a bill known as the "head-money blll" which relieved the State of New York from an annual tax of $200,000. In 1885 he caused to be passed in the Senate the "Alien Contract Labor Bill," which is still the law. Invented machines for the manu- facture of wood pulp. Was interested in the great national enterprise of construct- ing a ship canal across the Isthmus, to connect the two oceans; now engaged ex- tensively in gold and copper mining in United States and British Columbia. Member of Lawyers, Union League, Sons of Revolution, Republican Clubs. Ad- dress, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.

MILLER, William:

Engraver; born New York, Dec. 3, 1850, of German parents. Started engraving on wood at Frank Leslie's publishing house, 1868; studied drawing, etc., in Germany, 1871-73 ; associated with Frederick Jueng- ling, 1877-89. Medal World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Exhibited in New York, Munich Salon, Paris Exposition. 1900. Medal Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Residence, 1037 Jackson Ave .; office, care S. S. Mc Clure Co., N. Y. City.

Manufacturer; born Sept. 15, 1863, War- saw, N. Y .; educated at Princeton Uni- versity. Secretary and director, Frank Miller Co. Member of Princeton Club. Residence, Clarendon Hotel; office, 343 West 26th St .. N. Y. City.

MILLER, William Henry :

Architect; born May 25, 1848, Trenton. N. Y .; son of Major Henry Miller and Calrissa Burlingame Miller; prepared at Mechanicsville Academy and Clinton Liberal Institute and attended Cornell University. 1868-70. being its first student in architecture. He began the practice of his profession in Ithaca, in 1873. He married, Jan. 20. 1876. Emma. daughter of Henry Halsen. Architect of President A. D. White's mansion, Fiske-McGraw Mansion (now Chi Psi Fraternity House). Barnes Hall. University Library, Board- man Hall, Stimson Hall, Sage Mansion (now Inurmary) all at Cornell Universi- ty; also Wells College. He designed the Ithaca Savings Bank Building and the Unitarian, Congregational and

Baptist Churches all in Ithaca. He has done much work out of Ithaca and his work can be found in Canada and fifteen other States. He designed the homes of Justice Henry B. Brown, of U. S. Supreme Court in Washington and Detroit, the Sage Mansion in Albany and Ithaca, the T. S. Williams' mansion in Oyster Bay and Sir Roderick Cameron's mansion in N. Y. City. Member of American Society of Architects and Art League of New York, Chi Phi Fraternity, Town and Gown and Country Clubs. Knight Templar, Uni- tarian. Address, 65 West 4th Ave., N. Y. City.

MILLER, William Wilson:

Lawyer; born May 14, 1870, Washing- ton, D. C .; educated at National Univer- sity; single; member of firm of Horn- blower, Byrne, Miller & Potter, Trustee, The Securities Co. Member of Lawyers, Racuet and Tennis, Metropolitan, Ards- ley. The Riding Club, Rockaway Hunt, City Bar Association and Society of Medical Jurisprudence. Residence, 501 Fifth Ave .; office, 24 Broad St., N. Y. City.

MILLIKEN, Seth M .:

Merchant ; president and director Dal- las Manufacturing Co., Cowan Woolen Co., of Maine, Great Falls Woolen Co., of New Hampshire. Madison Woolen Co., Maine; director, Cascade Woolen Co., Fidelity Bank, The Mercantile National Bank, Po-

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land Paper Co., Van Norden Trust Co .; [ Medal of Honor for most distinguished trustee the Bowery Savings Bank; mem- ber: Union League, Riding, Metropolitan, Merchants and Republican Clubs. Resi- dence, 990 Madison Ave .; office, 79 Leon- ard St., N. Y. City.

MILLS, Albert Leopold:

Brigadier-general U. S. Army ; superin- tendent U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Fifth son Abiel Buckman and Anne Warford Mills; born Wash- ington Heights, N. Y. City, May 7, 1854. On the side of his father, who was born in Old Hadley, Mass., his ancestors were among the earliest colonists of New Eng- land, while his mother is a descendant of Long Island colonists, her immediate an- cestors moving, before the Revolution. to Hunterdon County, N. J. Attended school N. Y. City until entering Military Acade- my, West Point. After being graduated, was assigned to the cavalry arm of the service. His first duty as an officer was in the Department of Tactics at the Military Academy, after which he served with his regiment on Indian frontier in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Wy- oming and Arizona, participating in Crow Indian campaign, 1887; Sioux Indian cam- paign, 1890, and other Indian disturbances. His regmental service was broken by a tour of duty as professor of military science and tactics at South Carolina Mil- itary Academy, Charleston, and as in- structor in the departments of strategy, cavalry and tactics, U. S. Infantry and Cavalry Officers' School, Fort Leaven- worth, Kan .. Was on duty at latter school when war with Spain was declared. Par- ticipated in Santiago campaign and en- gaged in battles of Las Guasimas and Santiago de Cuba, being commended for gallantry in former and very seriously wounded in latter. Married, Brooklyn,

N. Y., 1883, Alada Thurston Paddock,

eldest daughter, Rt. Rev. John Adams Paddock, D. D .; has two children, Ger- 1884, and Chester trude Warford, born Paddock, born 1887. Was appointed ca- det, U. S. Military Academy from N. Y., July 1, 1874; graduated and commissioned second lieutenant First Regiment of Cav- alry, June 13, 1879; promoted first lieu- tenant First Cavalry, Jan. 23, 1889 ; ad- jutant First Cavalry, Oct. 1890 to Oct. 1894 ; appointed captain and assistant ad- jutant general U. S. Volunteers, May 12, 1898 ; assigned as adjutant general to the Second Brigade, Cavalry Division, Fifth Army Corps, June 10, 1898; appointed superintendent U. S. Military Academy, Aug. 22, 1898; Awarded Congressional

gallantry in action near Santiago de Cu- ba, July 1, 1888. Promoted captain Sixth U. S. Cavalry, Oct. 24, 1898 ; nominated by President for brevet appointment of major and lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in battles of Las Guasimas and Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898; promoted brigadier- general, May 7, 1904. Address, Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.

MILLS, Andrew, Jr .:

Banker; born N. Y. City; was gradu- ated from N. Y. University, 1867. Presi- dent Dry Dock Savings Bank; director, National Broadway Bank; trustee, State Trust Co .; director, Stuyvesant Insurance Co. and N. Y. City Mission and Trust So- ciety. Member Delta Phi Fraternity and Union League Club; treasurer, Presby- terian Union. Republican. Residence, 65 West 84th St .; office, 341 Bowery, N. Y. City.

MILLS, Arthur:

Railway official; born Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1850; was graduated from Har- vard University, 1872. Since then con- nected with railroads in various official capacities; now vice-president and gen- eral manager and a director Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. Member, University and Harvard clubs and Mili- tary Order Loyal Legion (Boston Com- mandary). Address, 350 Broadway, N. Y. City.

MILLS, Darius Ogden:

Financier ; born Westchester C., N. Y., Sept. 5, 1825 ; fifth son James Mills. Re- ceived education, North Salem Academy and afterwards in the Mount Pleasant Academy at Sing Sing. At the age of seventeen secured a clerkship in N. Y. In 1847, went to Buffalo, where he entered into partnership with his cousin, E. J. Townsend, and was appointed cashier, Merchant's Bank, of Erie County. Went to San Francisco, 1849; engaged in trade with the various mining districts. Later settled in Sacramento, and engaged in general mercantile business, while also buying gold-dust and dealing in exchange on New York. In Nov., 1849, closed out his business and returned to Buffalo, where he disposed of all his interests in the East, returning to Sacramento again, and founding there the house of D. O. Mills & Co., which quickly became the leading bank of interior Californa, a po- sition which it holds to this day. In 1864, was elected president Bank of California, a new institution which began business that year with a capital of $2,000,000. He

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remained connected with it till 1873, when institute lecturer. Admitted to Bar, 1901. he resigned the presidency and retired Has been president N. Y. State Educa- from business. After it was wrecked by tional Association and president Normal Department, National Educational Asso- ciation. Address, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City. his successor he was summoned again to the bank and resumed the presidency, subscribed personally to the bank capital $1,000,000, raised in all nearly $7,000,000, MILNE, John M .: and within six weeks enabled it to resume payment. In three years he again left it,

after having firmły re-established its financial standing. He subsequently came East, where he became a resident of N. Y. City, and erected the

great "Mills Building" in Broad St. His interests are now divided between New York and Cali- fornia. On leaving California he endowed with $75,000, since raised to $150,000, the Mills Professorship of Moral and Intel- lectual Philosophy in University of Cali- fornia, and donated to state handsome group of marble statuary Columbus before Queen Isabella. Became trustee of Lick estate and Lick astronomical observatory. Residence, 634

Fifth Ave. ; office, 15 Broad St., N. Y. City.

MILLS, Herbert Elmer:

Professor of Political Economy, Vassar College. Born Aug. 8, 1861, Salem, N. H. Educated Woburn (Mass.) High School, University of Rochester, A. B., 1883; Cornell University, Ph. D., 1800. Presl- dent Board of Managers of the House of Refuge for Women, Hudson, N. Y .; Almshouse Commissioner, Poughkeepsie. Married Loulse Sansbury July 30, 1890. Democrat. Address, 106 Academy St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

MILLS, Ogden:

Capitalist; son of Darius Ogden Mills; was graduated from Harvard University, A. B., 1878. Director, Chicago, Rock Isl- and & Pacific R. R. Co., Erie Elevator Co., Mergenthaler Linotype Co., National Typographic Association, New York Fire Proof Tenement Association and Tribune Association. Member of Metropolitan,

University, Harvard, Union, Union League, Racquet and Tennis, Hudson River Ice Yacht, Turf and Field and New York Yacht Clubs. Residence, 2 East 69th St .; office, 15 Broad St., N. Y. City.

MILNE, James M .:

Lawyer; born Scotland, 1850; was grad- uated from Rochester University, 1880, (Ph. D., Colgate University); studied at Heidelberg University. Principal aca - demic department, three years; professor Latin and Greek, twelve years, Cortland, N. Y., Normal School; principal State Normal School, Oneonta, nine years;

Principal State Normal School, Gene- seo ; born Mar. 3, 1850, Grange Hill, Scot- land; came to United States, 1852 ; edu- cated Brockport State Normal School and Rochester University. Teacher since 1872 and principal State Normal School since 1SS). Address, Geneseo, N. Y.

MINOR, Robert Crannell:

Landscape painter; born N. Y. City, 1$4v ; studied painting under H. Boulan- ger and Joseph Van Luppen in Belgium and under Diaz at Barbizon, France. Has received various honors and medals and has furnished works to notable collections. Member: National Academy of Design, N. Y. Sculpture Society, National Arts Club, Lotos Club ; president Salmagundi Club, N. Y. Address, 58 West 57th St., N. Y. City.

MITCHELL, John Ames:

Founder, Jan. 3, 1883, and editor of Life; born N. Y. City, Jan. 17, 1845; fitted for college at Exeter, N. H .; studied at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard; studied architecture Boston and at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1867-70 ; practiced as architect, Boston, 1870-76; after that engaged in artistic and decorative work; studied drawing and painting in Paris, 1876-80; then in N. Y. until 1883, as art- ist, illustrator, writer. Married. Author : Croquis de l'Exposition, Paris: The Sum- mer School of Philosophy at Mt. Desert; The Romance of the Moon; The Last Am- erican; "Life's" Fairy Tales; Amos Judd; That First Affair; Gloria Victis; The Pines of Lory, The Villa Claudia. Resi- dence, 20 West 46th St .; office 17 West 31st St., N. Y. City.

MITCHELL, John Murray:

Ex-member of congress, lawyer; born N. Y. City, Mar. 18,, 1858; graduate of Co- lumbia, 1877 (A. M., 1880); Columbia Law School, 1879: admitted to Bar, 1879; trav- eled in Europe, 1879-80; law clerk, 1880- se ; has practiced since 1882 ; member Congress, 8th N. Y. District, 1895-99 ; de- feated, 1898, for 56th Congress; Republi- can. Residence, 9 East 67th St .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.

MITCHELL, Mason:

Actor, soldier and U. S. Consul; born Hamilton, N. Y., 1859 ; son David J. Mit- chell of Syracuse, N. Y., one of the most

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eminent criminal lawers of the State ate during the years 1899 and 1900, serv-

educated St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y., and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter,

N. H. Made his debut on the stage at the age of seventeen, Old Broadway Theatre, N. Y .; rose rapidly in his profession, sup- porting such stars as Edwin Booth, Law- rence Barrett, John McCullough. In 1883 accompanied Mary Anderson to England to play with her during her engagement throughout Great Britain. In 1885 he was appointed chief of scouts, under the Cana- dian government, and served with dis- tinction through the Riel Rebellion, being promoted for gallantry in action. Trav- eled extensively through South America, South Sea Islands, writing and illustrating articles on those countries, especially in Samoa, where he remained some time in company with Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist and writer. Returning to America, he became manager of the Gar- rick Theatre, N. Y. City, also playing lead- ing roles. In 1898 he was enlisted by President Roosevelt in his regiment of Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War; was wounded at the battle of Santi- ago; at close of war accompanied Theo- dore Roosevelt on his gubernatorial cam- paign, ending the meeting with his speech. 1902,

was appointed United States consul to Zanzibar. Address, U. S. Consulate, Zanzibar.

MITCHELL, Richard H .:

Lawyer, member of Morgan & Mitchell, Potter Building, N. Y. City ; born Mckees- port, Pa., 1870 ; younger son Dr. James B. Mitchell and Emma Henry Mitchell; a descendent of Irish and German ances- tors, his grandfather, James Henry, hav- ing been a native of the town of Cole- rain, County of Londonderry, Ireland, and is also related to the Eckfeldt family of whom Adam Eckfeldt was an appointee of President Washington in the U. S. Mint. Educated public schools, Col- lege of the City of N. Y., class of 1888, and Columbia University Law School, 1890 and 1891; admitted to Bar, June, 1891. Associated himself with Morgan & Ives, a well known law firm of N. Y. City and soon after became a member of the firm with Rollin M. Morgan with whom he has since continued in partnership, the firm now being Morgan & Mitchell. Is well known as a Democrat in the Borough of the Bronx. In 1897 was elected mem- ber of Assembly form the Thirty-fifth Dis- trict by a majority of 1,462 votes and the following year, 1898, was elected Senator by a majority of 6,606. Remained in Sen-

ing during that time on the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Privi- leges and Elections. In 1904 appointed assistant corporations council in charge of the Bronx; also became interested in the movement for the advancement of the political and commercial interests of Puerto Rico and was elected president of the Puerto Rican American League. Member: Bar Association of the City of N. Y., and of the Borough of the Bronx; Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; Kane Lodge No. 454 F. & A. M. Jerusalem Chapter; Coeur de Lion Commandery; League of American Wheelmen, Pennsylvania So- ciety; Taxpayers' Alliance; Alumni Asso- ciation of College of City of N. Y .; Bronx West Side Association, and. the Demo- cratic, N. Y. Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Fordham, Schnorer, Washington, Jeffer- son, Tammany and Pawnee clubs. Ad- dress, 1216 Washington Ave., Borough of the Bronx, N. Y. City.

MIZNER, Henry R .:

Brigadier-general U. S. Army ; born Geneva, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1827. Colonel Four- teenth Michigan Infantry, Dec. 22, 1862; honorably mustered out July 18, 1865; captain Eighteenth Infantry, May 14. 1861; transferred to 36th Infantry Sept. 21, 1866; Major Twentieth Infantry, Feb. 22, 1869; transferred to Twelfth Infantry Mar. 15, 1869; transferred to Eighth In- fantry May 14, 1877; lieutenant-colonel Tenth Infantry Dec. 15, 1880; Colonel Seventeenth Infantry Jan. 2, 1888. Bre- vet major U. S. Army for gallant and meritorious services in battle of Stone River ; brevet lieutenant-colonel for gal- lant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign and in the battle of Jonesboro, Ga .; brevet brigadier-general volunteers for gallant and meritorious services during the war. Major-general Jefferson C. Davis, commanding Four- teenth Corps, referring to the Fourteenth Michigan Infantry Volunteers, wrote the Secretary of War as follows: "Colonel Mizner and regiment joined my command early in the campaign against Atlanta and served with distinction to its close. this regiment were among the first carried Corps under my command, and upon every occasion where the enemy was met in- variably signalized its courage and disci- pline. In the assault of the Corps upon the enemy's works at Jonesboro, which re- sulted in the fall of Atlanta, the colors of This regiment was one of the best in the over the works. Colonel Mizner had been

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 115

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100