Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-06

afterward chief justice OF the United states
supreme court. Completing his studies he
returned to Oneida county, and was married
Soon after he took his bride to Fort Wayne,
Ind, where he began practice. He remained
at Fort Wayne eight years, and three chill
dren were born to him there. The eldest
is now twenty-five years of age; the
next, a son, is a junior at Hamilton
college, and the third is a daughter
about seventeen years of age. Miller
rose rapidly in his profession and soon stood
at the hsad Of the Fort Wayne bar In 1874
he received an offer of partnership with Gen
eral Harrison in indianapolis. The offer
was at once accepted, and he and his family
removed to Indianapolis and became intimate
friends and contidants of the Harrisons. the
most intimate, it is stated, that the president
elect ever had.
In everything that pertains to his business,
Mr.. Miller is "A model of precision, and Gen
eral Harrison has come 10 regard him as alb
solutely necessary to HIM, whether in or out
of Office The admiration is mutual, and
the president-elect has no more dsintcrested
admircr in the state than his former law
partner Mr.. Miller has grown rich in the
practice of the law, and his house in Indian
apolis is an elegant one.
POSTMASTER GENERAL.
John WanamaKer.-Ii was born in Phil
adelphia county fifty-one years ago, of u
German father and n mother who was of
French extraction, of Huguenot family.
His birthday was July IL, 1887, His father
John, as boy, used TO do occasional work in
his fathers brick yard. 1t was while he was
public school pupil that he worked in his
fathers yard, turning the bricks for pit
tance. Presently he started out in the
world as clerk in book store at Sl.25
week. increasing that TO 81 .5Oa week later on
by obtaining place as salesman in cloth
ing store. He left this to become errand
boy in another store of the same sort called
Flower Hall, )" where ne succeeded so well
that he was again and again promoted with
frequent changes of salary. He staid there
five years. and at night conducted lit
tie paper called Everybody's Journal for
which he got subscriptions and advertise
ments. He also made cologne and bottled
and sold it. BY instinct a money getter he
had saved 81, ,00G when he was twenty years
old. AT about the time of his reaching his
majority, two or three years before the war,
his health broke down and he Travelled in
the south. With his health restored after a
vacation of several months he returned TO
Philadelphia, became secretary of the Young
Mems Christian association, and was induced
by his father to become master brick
maker. The work and life We're too monot-
onous. In partnership with his brother-in
law, Nathan Brown, he opened the Oak Hall
clothing store April s, 1861. He is trustee
or director or officer in the Real Estate Trust
company, the Merchants bank, the Phila-
delphia Il Reading railroad, the Williamson
schools, the Presbyterian hospital, the Uni
versty hospital (of which he is manager),
and the Penny Savings Fund, OF which he is
president. He is the head of the Times print
ing house, large establishment in charge of
q broth.r-in-law named George II. Brown,
brother to the Brown at the head OF Oak
Hall. MIR. Wanamaker is the originator and
an actived worker in the citizens committee
for the relief of cities and communities at
tackled by disease and other sudden calamity.
He raised the first million dollars for the
centennial exposition of 1876. and was chair
man of the citizen's committee, chairman of
the bureau OF revenue, and member of the
press committee of the centennial exposi-
tion. AS everyone knows, he raised half
million to help elect General Harrison, and
was chairman of the national republican ad-
visory committee during the late campaign.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.
Jeremiah M. RuSk, was born in Morgan
county, o., June II, 1880, and removed to
Wisconsin and settled in Vernon, formerly
Bad Axe, in 1853. He held several county
offices, was member of the assembly in
1862 was commissioned major of the Twenty
fifth Wisconsin volunteer infantry in July,
1862, and was afterwards promoted to the
colonclcy. He served with General Sherman
from the siege of Vlcksburg until mustered
out at the close of the war. He was bre-
veted brigadier general for bravery at the
elected for term of two years as comp
troller OF Wisconsin, and was reelected in
1SfS. He represented the Sixth congress
sional district in the Forty-seventh congress
and the Seventh district IN the Forty-third
and Forty-fourth congress. For several
years he was member of the congressional
republican committee and was delegate to
the national republic an convention at Chi
caeo in 1888. He was appointed by
President Garfield and confirmed by
the senate as Minister to Paraguay
and Uruguay, which appointment he de-
clincd. He was also rendered by President
Garfield the mission to Denmark and the
position of chief of the bureau of engraving
and printing, both of which he declined, He
was elected governor in 1881, was reelected
in 1884, and was again reelected in 1886 as a
for his staunch maintenance of
the law and order during the riot period of
May, 1886. His term as governor extended
seven years, which is the longest period of
any executive Of the state.