The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-13
The Real Pedigree OF the New Poem
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The new California poet" Josquin
Miller, as he is called, who is creating
sensation in English literary circles
and receiving the concentrations Of the
Times, Ahenaum, Pail Mall Gazette and
the Globe, is an Oregonian, and his real
name is C. Hiner Miller. His father;
Hulins Miller, settled with his family
wife, four sons and one Enlightenment
the town of Eugene City, in Lane couu-
ty, Oregon, nearly twenty years ago,
when the subject of this sketch was a
boy. "Hiner" went to California, prob
ably in 1858, and spent a short time in
the mines, near Yreka, where it was re-
ported that he got into difficulty and
shot at the sheriff Of Siskfyon county.
On returning home he attended school
in Eugene CITY till some time in 1860,
and was in the same class as the
writer of this article. He then
spent about a year in Eastern Oregon
and what's now Idaho, running pony
express and carrying letters and papers
from the nearest postoffice, distance
of two or three hundred miles over the
mountains and through the Indian
country to the miners. Again he re-
turned home, and for a short time
during the early part of the war OF the
rebellion he edited the Eugene City
Reviev, a Democratic paper, and as the
writer of this was editing the Republican
paper there at the time, he has dis
tinct recollection of fierce war of
words. Soon after this he married
Miss Minnie Myrtle, young lady who
had acquired a reputation as writer of
verses. He then went east Of the Cas-
cade mountains with his young wife,
and settled in the gold mining camp Of
Canyon City," on John Days River in
the new county of Grant, where he put
out his shingle as an attorney at law"
He was soon afterward elected County
Judge of Grant county, by the Demo
Gratis, and remained there till
the spring of 1870, during which
time he accumulated considerable
money, and published in the local
newspa pers, from time to time, part
of the poems which he has since collec-
ted and published in London. Last
spring he came back to his old home
at Eugene City, separated from his wife,
leaving her and two little children pro-
vided for, and on the 9th of June, 1870,
the day of our State ele ction, he left
the Willamette Valley for Europe, and
was, | believe, the Paris correspondent
of leading New York paper during
the Franco German war. His last pro-
duction before leaving the shores Of the
Pacific was a parting farewell to his
wife, entitled "Myrr," and addressed to
m. NJ. M" Minnie Myrtle Miller
and was published over his signature
on the llth of June, few days alter
his departure, (the carrying away an
advance prooi.sheet), in the Oregon
State Journal, which, although Repub'
lican, was the paper he selected as
the medium OF most Of his publications,
as his father, brothers, and nearly
all Of his warmest personal friends were
of that school OF politics. To this pro-
ductiou his wife published a reply in
verse, soon after his departure, in which
she criticised hin in severe terms. One
of his brothers, Dr.. John D. Miller, left
Oregon to serve in the Union army in
Virginia, and is Low residing in eastern
PENNSYLVANIA. His other brothers and
parents are still residing near Eugene
City, in the. beautiful valley Of the Will
lamette, and his only sister, Ella, died
in that place only few months ago.
1t was reported that he became &C
auainted with Miss Myrtle by seeing
her verses in print, and in this way
commenced corresponding with her be-
fore they had seen each other. Then he
called at her home, on Coos Bay the
first time another gentlemen who was
paying his addresses to Miss NJ. hap
pened 10 be in the house, whereupon
"Hiner" introduced himself by drawing
arevolver and driving his rival from the
room. They were then married and
went to Eugene City. Perhaps there is
some truth in this, because in her reply,
Mrs. NJ. NJ. NJ. reproaches him for cold
ness and neglect, after having driven
her lover from her presence and sepa-
rated them forever. He is as lmpulsive
and reckless as Byron, but is true and
noble friend. In his farewell he pre-
dicted that he would yet have "a name
among the princely few" which may
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