The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-07
MR.. HUGH l.. MILLER DEAD.
lay Was a Former Resident OF
Wilmington and Was Well known
and Popular ere-T BE Buried at
GOIdsbOro.

"OkuSDOTO.
The sad but not unexpected news was
received from Columbia. S. c., yester-
day at oon of the death in that city
Of Mr.. Hugh Lee Miller. who was a
well known and popular resident of
South Carolina. He died OF tubercu-
losis Of the throat
Mr.. Miller was born Ill Goldsboro. n.
c. and was in the 32nd year of his age.
He received his early education in the
G~oldsboro graded schools. entered the
University of North Carolina in 1886
and was graduated in 1890 with honors.
taking a postgraduate course in chem
istry the following year.
After leaving Chapel Hill he was ap-
pointed assistant professor of chemistry
and professor of physics IN the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college at Ra-
leigh. which position he filled with
then accepted the position OF chemist
with the Navassa Guano Company of
this city and until 1898 remained with
them in that capacity and as salesman
n superintendent.
When the war broke out between the
United States and Spain in the spring
of 1898. Mr.. Miller was ensign of vii
mington Division, North Carolina Ma
val Battalion. He Gid not believe
merely in playing soldier In timv OF
peace and then retiring in the time OF
peril to his country, but with the con-
s~cientiousness indicative of the brave
and true Ia re resigned mis- posi-
ton with the Navassa Guano Company
and volunteered in the United States
service as a member ot the North a
DINA Naval Battalion. He was ap-
pointed ensign and served with the re-
Nantucket. holding his commission as
ensign until the close of the war,
Returning to Wilmington in the fall
of 1898. Mr.. Miller resumed his connec-
ton with the Navassa Company and
upon it's consolidation with the Vir-
| ginia-Carolina Chemical Company, he
was appointed division manager of the
4 1dIuldCluIlH department, liltellOI III
vision of South Carolina, with head
| quarters at Charleston. After a few
months residence in Charleston his
health failed, and having been granted
several months leave Of absence. he
made an extensive trip through Mex
leo and southern California to recuper.
ate.
On his return to Wilmington in 1900
he removed to Columbia and in the fol
lowing April, was married to Mis-
Purden Smith. of York. Pa. The sum
mer was spent by them in Aashevill'
but the climate not being altogethe
suitable to Mr.. Miller's health, they re
turned to Columbia. 1t Was at thi
time that he began to fail rapidly am
in the hope that he might recover. hi
company voluntarily extended him
second absence of indefinite length an
he and Mrs. Miller mad expected t
leave for southern California IN a fey
days when death overlook him.
Mr.. Miller was n IF the most popu
lar young men in Wilmington and dur
ing his residence here made man.
warm personal friends to whom hi
death is a great shock. While hi
friends knew of his co~ndition-yet the.
had strong hopes for his ultimate re
covery, and were not prepared for tn
a news received Yesterday. He wa
a genial, true. manly young maj an
was most companionable and attrac
tive to those who knew him best.
His remains will be taken to his oil
home at Goldsboro where he is survive
by his father, DR.. John F. Miller, fou
brothers and three sisters his mothe
having died last summer. To ther
and to his widow. is extended the deer
est sympathies of his many war;
friends and old associates.
THE FUNERAL TOMORROW.
Goldsboro. N. G., Febl uary A.
the family here that Mr. Hugh l.. Nil
Ter. third son of DR.. J. F. Miller, die
this afternoon in Columbia, S. G., wher
he held the position of DIVISION manage
of the Virginia-Carolina Chemics
Company for interior South Carolin;
His father was en- route to his bedsid
but did not reach there in time to Sc
his son alive. Hugh Miller was on
of the brightest young men this cit
or state has produced. He had bee
married only since last spring and tn
future held everything of promise fc
him. The remains are expected to a.
rive here tomorrow evening n tn
funeral will be held from st. Pau
church Thursday morning at 10 o'clocl