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From: Jeanne Weaver <>
Subject: [ILMENARD] 1905 Menard history, Biographies, continued
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:11:17 -0700 (PDT)


Dear Listers,

Find index to Past and Present of Menard County, by R.
D. Miller, 1905, and biographies at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmenard/mchs.html

Menard GenWeb site:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmenard/index.html

ROBERT DON LEAVEY MILLER
ROBERT DON LEAVEY MILLER was born February 3,
1838, in Pettis county, Missouri, near where the city
of Sedalia now stands. His father, William A. Miller,
was a politician of some notoriety, serving in the
legislature and constitutional convention of Missouri
and was a candidate for congress at the time of his
death, which occurred March 2d, 1847, when he was
forty-one years of age. His mother was Agnes C.
Mitchell, born in Tennessee, May 13, 1805. Her father,
Captain Thomas Mitchell, removed to Missouri in 1814,
when it was a territory, and the family lived for
three years, in Coles Fort because of the hostility of
the Indians. Her four brothers were the first white
men to ferry across the Osage river. Daniel Boone was,
for some time, and inmate of that fort and died in
that vicinity. Mrs. Miller died in 1886, at the age of
eighty-one years.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the subscription schools in northwest
Missouri, being reared within four miles of St.
Joseph, Missouri. At the age of sixteen he entered
Chapel Hill College, taking the full classical course
but lacked one year of completing it. He then began
the study of medicine, but after eighteen months of
hard study abandoned it and read law and was admitted
to the bar, but never practiced but very little. Mr.
Miller united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church
in 1858. In 1864 he was ordained a minister of that
church and has preached constantly ever since. At one
time it was said that he said the ceremony for one
third of the people married in Menard county. He has
attended more funerals than any other man perhaps in
this part of the state. He taught school sixteen years
and has been in all county superintendent of schools
in Menard county for twenty-three years, twenty-two
years consecutively. Menard county was the fifth
county in the state to adopt a Course of Study and
this was written and published by Mr. Miller. He
organized the Cumberland Presbyterian church in
Petersburg and built the house of worship for them and
served as their pastor for over six years. He built
the church house at Lebanon and also the new
Cumberland Presbyterian church in Fancy Prairie. These
are three of the best church edifices in the county.
Mr. Miller is now (1904) pastor of the church in Fancy
Prairie.

Jeanne Weaver
Menard GenWeb Coordinator
and List Administrator



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