Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-03-02
COLONEL MILES
IS DEAD
SucCumbS to InCurable Disease In
Memorial Hospital
COL. NILES WAS A MAN OF AFFAIRS
He Was a Nan of Unusual Ability and his
Death has Been Received With Much
Regret by all who Knew Him.


Richmond, Va, FEBRUARY 25-Colonel
George w. Miles passed away at Memoir
al Hospital here this morning at $3.50
O'Clock. Cancer of the liver was the cause
of death.
Repeated and strenuous efforts had been
made to save him by use of the X-ray,
and for time the progress of the disease
seemed to have been stayed. He had
been confined to his sick bed for about
two months.
He died very quietly, sinking conscious
ly and calmly into oblivion with courage
and confidence. His energetic spirit
found strength to the last to cheer bis be-
loved family in their grief, to express his
high hopes for their future, and to send
words of faith and comfort to bis num-
berless loyal friends.
With him as he died we're bis wife, his
two sons, Vincent and George; bis daugh-
ter, Mary; his brother in-law, II. L. Nor
gan, and his friend, James A. Baird.
The remains were taken to Radford for
interment, leaving here tonight
Colonel George W.. Miles was born in
Rheatown, Tenn, January 10, 1868. He
was the second son of Rev. George W.
Miles, Methodist minister and presiding
elder of the Holston Conference. His
father lad a large family, but gave each
of his children a good education. All Of
the sons, and these FIVE in number, gradu-
ated from Emory and Henry College and
the University of Virginia, the three
daughters from Martha Washington Col
lege
Colonel Miles entered Emory and Henry
College at the age of l3, and in 1880,
when only II, took the degree of A. B.
The next two years we're spent at the Uni
yersity of Virginia, where be graduated in
ancient and modern languages and Eng
lish. At the age of nineteen, we find him
adjunct professor of languages at Emory
and Henry College.
The next year he married Miss Matte
Morgan, of Marion, graduate of Hollins
Institute, and bright and charming girl.
Before he reached his majority Colonel
Miles was full-hedged professor, occupy
ing the chair of French and German, and
later that of Greek and English. Before
he was twenty eight, the brilliant young
professor bad been proposed for the presi-
dency of the college by such men as Judge
John A. Buchanan and Bishop Hoss. But
he preferred 10 found school of his own,
and accordingly st. Albans was born on
the banks of New River in '99.
Colonel Miles, though scholar, imbu
ed with poetry and sentiment, was yet no
dreamer. He was a man of action, prac-
tical, effective, quick to conceive and 60
ing straight to the mark in execution;
creator, a leader, always equal to the situa'
tiop.
Colonial Miles was meyer a candidate
for office, but took lively interest and
active part in politics and was powerful
factor in bringing about the nomination
of former Governor Tyler and Governor
Montague. No finer speeches were heard
on the hustings in the last gubernatorlal
campaign than those of Colonel Miles
while with the pen he was equally virile,
forceful and convincing.
Colonial Miles was a charming speaker
an orator, indeed. His address on "Edu-
cation in Virginia." delivered at the Pan
American Exposition, was listened to with
the closest attention and was warmly
praised by all the big Northern papers.
At an alumni banquet of the University
of Virginia held few years ago in Wash
ington, Colonel Miles made an after-dinner
speech, which was received with much en-
thusasm and was pronounced by Thomas
Nelson Page and Hon. Holmes Conrad
the. finest banquet speech they ever
heard.