Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-08-18
THE FARM
AND MADE MONEY
Miller Boys, Given $4,000 over 80
Years Ago, Now Worth
$25,oo0,00o.

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug IA little
over SO years ago farmer named
Miller living near Middletown, Conn,
called in his four sons. Darius, Frank,
Nathan G. and Charles. read them
lecture on tho use and abuse of money.
gave them 800 apiece. and told them
to 70 out in the world and hustle.
Darius. the eldest. was not 20 then.
tho youngest was scarcely 20 They
scattered and worked, schcmed and
thrivcd. and Yesterday as they met to-
gcther in tho home OF Frank to celc-
brate the golden wedding Of Darius
and his wife they told how they had
multiplied that $4,000 almost ten thou
sand fold.
Tho estimated wealth OF the broth
crs to-day IL 100000 Their ac-
.ivities range from dry goods to rail-
roads. from renl estate to electric
lighting. None Of tho Miller boys was
failure.
The arcs Of the Miller boys" and
thcir sister. Mrs. Kate Strickland OF
! bridgeport total 37o years ranging
from G5 TO 81, but their activities are
ccasclcss ard they are all in the best
If health.
LIKE THE ARABIAN NIGHTS"
The story reads like ono from the
"Arabian Nights." The four Alladins
apparently had but to rub their lamps
to gain power and wealth. and through
out the story the figure 700 seems to
! dominate, FOR away back In 1850 the
town Of Mddle.own agreed to pay their
/ fny nct n h
lishng Il mill there The payment was
never made hut the family still holds
the claim for the sum with the com
pound interest for 900 years.
Whom the boys left the old farm
! Darius went to New britain, where Inc
put his money into dry goods bust
ness that prospered so rapidly that he
- now one of the wenlthiost men ir
the State owniffg a big department,
store and having other large INTEREST,"
| beside
Nathan c., the second son, went T.
New York to seek his fortune. He de-
veloped a talent for high finance, made
n fortune on the stock market, bought
n railroad which he sold at an immense
profit, organized n steamboat COMPANY
| backed Thomas Edison in his inventions
and now possesses millions.
| HE GAVE CLERKS A BUSINESS.
| Charles Miller went to Waterbury t.
invest his 800. and accumulated money
SO fast that last January he astound ed
I his fellow citizens by turning over &c
| his clerks the immense establishment
| Of Miller & Peck. He holds a grea,
! quantity Of real estate. owns the Ran
dolph & Cloves Co. and controls many
industrial concerns
Frank Miller started his business
career in Bridgeport. studied the lum-
Der market and now owns vast tracks
Of pine timber in the South. controls
n dozen big factories. and is president
Of the City National bank.
To celebrate the reunion of tn,
brothers and sister q group PHOTOGRAPH
was taken. the first photograph fol
which Darius Miller had posed since
he lefv the farm more than a half GER
fury ago
The brothers recounted their bust
ness triumnhs modestly. Throughout
their struggles for fortune they ha'
kept IN touch with one another. an'
on many occasions one has helped an
other through some financial pinch s.
that the money power grew through
the united strength of the individual
fortunes.