Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-05-25
She was Born in Butler County.

ed here seems to assure future great.
ness. In this county were born some
OF the greatest men the nation has
produced, and also some of the finest
women, as witness the following re-
garding the wife of Justice Miller OF
Supreme Court of the United States,
as detailed in special from Wash
ington.
One of the most interesting figures
in Washington social life is Mrs Eli
"a Winters Miller. wife of the senior
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Her father was ia
nous in the trans-mountain regions OF
Pennsylvania during the first half of
the century. Both of Mrs. Miller's
parents were of English birth. Her
father, Rev. John Winters, was born
near Bristol, received his collegiate
education and was ordained pastor of
the Baptist Ecclesiastical denomina.
ton before he came to the United
States. Her mother was Miss Will
son, of Scotch family, born at New
castle-on.Tyne. When the worthy
pastor came to America he struck out
for the uans-Allegheny regions of
Pennsylvania.
During these early family peregrin-
ations Mrs. Miller was born at post
hamlet in Butler county, Pennsylva-
MIA, which bore the romantic and
high-sounding designation of Zelieno-
Pile, so named by the proprietor after
his wife. Eigbr months of her infant
existance was spent there, when the
family and effects were transferred to
Beaver, in the adjoining county. In
the crude state of things on that from
tier settlement of Pennsylvania, the
man of God found the ailments of the
body more pressing than the needs of
the soul. He entered into the prac.
tice of medicine, which be pursued for
some time. Returning to the pulpit,
he moved on westward to Warren,
O., where he expounded for ten years
the doctrines transplaDted from Eng
land to America by Roger Williams.
While in this section Miss Eliza Win
ters attended school with Miss Lu-
cretia Rudolph, now the widow of
James A. Garfield, twentieth Presi-
dent of the United States. The pas
toral responsibility of Rev. John
Winters again shifted westward, this
time to Knoxville, ILL.,. at about 1926,
aud then to Garrettsville. and, finally
advanced in years the good pastor
returned to Sharon, Pa, where he
gave up the ghost, being then the
oldest Baptist preacher in the United
States.
While Rev. John Winters was
holding forth the Gospel to the peo-
pie of Warren, Lewis Reeves made
the acquaintance of the preachers
daughter. But there was nothing
more in that than had transported
in the young lives of everybody else
The young lawyer set his face to-
wards the sunset to make career
and fortune At Keokuk he made
up his mind to cast his lot with the
people and possibilities of that then
infant community. He soon found
himself in lucrative practice. His
next ambition was a wife and a
home. His thoughts turned to the
PASTORS daughter. But now instead
of living OF Warren, the object Of his
Affections was at Sharon. There was
no railroads then in Pennsylvania.
Que day he appeared at the threshold
of the preachers home and inquired
for Miss Winters. He was wei.
coined into that happy home with
maiden warmth by the young girl
from whom be had parted at War
rem. They sat down before the open
hearth, where so much love had been
warmed into being and energy in the
olden times, and told of their lives
since they last met. He spoke Of
his professional success and of his
need for a partner in business. He
mentioned two applicants. one "Sam"
Miller, young Ksntuckian, Of am
bition, ability and industry, and the
other, "Cbarley" Phelps, young
Vermont lawyer He said he favor.
ed the Kentuckan. She, with fine
and uuerring feminine intuition, urg.
ed his cause. From thai moment
Lewis Reeves said the Grm shall bt
Reeves and Miller.
i. But there was another partnership
be had come to propose 1t was the
partnership which is for life and etern
ity. The young maid did not object
even sudden as was the proposal, as
she had known Lewis Reeves as an
ambitious and honorable acquain
tance. But to think of marriage with
out the pleasures of a season of ex
pectancy seemed like the loss of a
large share of happiness incident to
that emotional period which precedes
the consummation. But thu lover
} urged the fatigues and dicomforts o1
two long weeks of journey from Keo
} kuk to Sharon. There was force in
that argument to the mind of sensi
BILE young woman like Eliza Winters
So it was an affirmative verdict whicl
she gave to the lovers pleadings. Th
year IS45 witnessed this happy un
ion; the bride was yet in her middl
teens. The young lawyer with
} wife returned to Keokuk and settlet
down to professional advancement
and home joys. The young Kentucb
ian was taken into business associa
tion and the new firm of Reeves &
Miller became prominent Throughout
that whole region. In the coniden
ces of home Reeves often extolled t.
his wife the high character and abili
ties of Sam Miller. His unerring hon
esty in managing the millions of dol
lars in claims managed by the firm 81
impressed him that in the last mo
: ments of sudden and fatal lines
in 1854, he made him executor of hi
; estate and the guardian of the inter
l ests of his wife. The wife of Samue
F. Miller, Miss Ballinger, OF notec
: Kentucky family of that name, will
, whom Mr.. and Mrs. Reeves were OF
the closest relations OF affection, was
then in the last stages pulmonary dis
ease. As the storms OF the winter
: following the death of Mr. Reeves
were setting in, Mrs. Miller too pass
: ed away. The widower went OF
with the business of the firm and tht