Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-10-20
COUNTY CLERK MILLER DEAD
Suddenly suocumbS to Neuralgia Of Heart
in Council Bluffs.
EXPIRES BEFORE REACHING DAUGHTERS
Friend Finds Him sassrInE on street
Corner and Calls Carriage,
but f. Too Late-His
History.

Harry c. Miller. county clerk Of Douglas
county died in Council Bluffs Saturday
night shortly before 70 o'clock while riding
in a hack to the home of his daughter.
Mrs. Donald Macrae, jr... 500 Fifth avenue.
After ffty-eight years Of exceptionally good
health, he succumbed to neuralgia OF the
heart with such suddenness that friends in
Omaha. who had seen him buoyant and
vigorous within three hours Of his death
could scarcely credit the report when 1t
was circulated yesterday morning.
The body was brought from the Council
Bluffs undertakers to Mr. Millers Omaha
residence, 2911 Woolworth avenue, late yes
terday afternoon, there to await the funeral,
arrangements for which will not be made
until Mrs. Miller returns this morning
from Chicago and until other relatives can
come OF be heard from.
Is Stricken Suddenly.
Mrs. Miller went to Chicago for a short
visit Friday evening, and Saturday her hus-
band determined on visit at their daugh-
ters in Council Bluffs, and with his
grandson and granddaughter there, who
have ever been his little ''chums" and in
| Inmates. He was late in taking the car
| and late In arriving in Council Bluns.
/ Just when he first felt his trouble coming
on is not known, but when F. e. Gilllland,
| a grain broker and an oldtime friend,
found him he was at Pearl and Broadway
/ waiting for the car, end had then been
/ suffering some time. His face was blanched
/ and distorted with pain and he answered
Mr.. Gilliland that he was very sick and
would like to be taken to his daughters.
A hack was quickly summoned and Mr..
Miller lifted into 1t, but he grew rapidly
worse and remarked that he was afraid
he would die before he reached the house.
| The words were scarcely spoken before his
] fear was realized and the journey was
never completed. Mr. Gilliland directing
the driver to go to the undertaker's, that
Dr. Macrae, Mr.. Miller's son-in-law, might
be told and given time to prepare Mrs.
! Macrae for the shock
shock to His Relatives.
Mrs. Miller was reached at the Palmer
| house in Chicago with a telegram and mas
responded that she will arrive here early
, this morning She has been long in frali
health and her friends are fearful OF the
effects of the blow.
Mr. MiIlers other surviving relatives are
his brother, Phillip V. Miller, who has
been in charge of Mr.. Miller's grain broker
age Offices in this city for some years; his
brother. Judge Daniel F. Miller. an eminent
jurist at Keokuk, Ia; his sisters. Mrs Ed
ward Baggott OF Chicago and Mrs. J. II
Watson of st. Louis. Another sister was
mrs Charles M. Primeau. whose death oe-
CURED last May at her home, lilo Nortf
lTwenty-if street; Mrs. Sarah McAshar
Z OF 1at South twenty -Afth street. MT. anS
Mrs Alb Waggonner, 1049 Park avenue
Omaha, and Mrs. Charles Hows and Mis-
Chattie Babcock OF Council Bluffs are hi
lcousins. Mrs. ]. II. Weston. who was living
with Mr.. and Mrs. Miller. was his sister
in-law.
His Business and Public Life.
} The name Harry c. Miller was a conces
sion 20 brevity and to popular preference
his real full name being William Henr,
Clay Miller. He was born at Fort Madison
Ia, February IL, 1874, at which time hi
father, Hon. Daniel F. Miller. a pionee
statesman of the Hawkeye state, was still
. resident there. In 1859 the family move
to Keokuk and 1t was there that Mr. Milo
passed his boyhood days.
/ His wife, whom he married in 1869, e
Miss Louise Plott OF Fort Madison. The
had one daughter, who married DR.. Donal
Macrae jr. OF Council Bluffs. Mr.. Mile
made Fort Madison his home after his mar
riage. spending some years on the road a
a commercial traveller. Later ne engage
, in the grain business there and eventual
, grew into the cash grain brokerage bust
ness, giving 1t his exclusive attention 1
) 1877 and until 1888. when he was eiecte
to the lower house OF the Iowa legislator
from Lee county and served one term afte
having been county central commltte
chairman six years. Meanwhile he had be
= come interested at Kansas City and late
| lived there.
: Since Coming to Omaha.
1t was in 1887 that he came to Oman
and since that time he has been residen
here. with cash grain brokerage as hi
business, but with constant active partici
patton in the promotion of his party, tn
, democratic He served as chairman Of tn
county central committee some years ag
and last November was elected count
clerk and seated January l. Charles Unit
the republican nominee, contested the cleo
> tion and the controversy was in the count
and the district courts for some months
Mr.. Unit finally abandoning 1t.
Mr.. Miller. after his election, retaine
his business interests and had an once I
The Bee building at the time OF his deatl
representing the Calumet Grain and EIe
vator company of st. Louis and Smith
Gambrill OF Baltimore, with which latte
firm he had been identified for thirtee
years.
Man of Many Friends.
Long in the public eye he had made
legion OF friends in Omaha, In Couno
Bluffs and at his old home in Iowa. II
, had taught them to expect a word OF chez
' as his natural salutation, and the impulse