The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-29
FINE TRIBUTE
TO D. +. MILLER
Delivered by Dr.. Geo. P. Neal Of Fort
Madison at Meeting Of the
Fort Madison Bar Assoc
citation.
Loss COMES TO MANY
Mr.. Mlller's Death Is Deplored by thu
I. Law, Medicine and Science
aa Well az
4 Society.
Loss COMES TO MANY !

At meeting of the members OF
the Fort Madison Bar Assoc alton
held last Friday at the court house
to pay tribute to the memory OF Hon.
Daniel F. Miller, DR.. Geo. F. Neal OF
Fort Madison offered and read the
following tribute:
MEMOIR.
MAY 81, 1s51-SEPTEMBER 20, 1913.
The demise OF the illustrcus son OF
Lee county, the lamented Daniel y
Miller whose untimely end is s.
tinct loss to all professions alike, law,
medicine and allied sciences, as well
as society as a whole: Sorrow brings
US into closer relationship to things
which are maundane and supramun-
dane.
We miss friend upon whom we
could lean with confidence, one whose
| Judgment was unchallenged, undouot-
ed, unexcelled l knew Daniel f.
Miller for 40 years; in his youth,
knew him as university student; In
early manhood as an earnest, daring,
4 Woodworking member of the democra-
tic party in which he was ever and
always on the firing line; again, ] re-
member him as a rising young law
yer. who had the confidence of both
/ friend and foe; then again, | saw him
as a vigorous prosecuting attorney
the terror of the evil doer, the right
arm of the law; latterly, ! knew him
as an eminent lawyer, one who was
profound as an expounder OF Legal
truth and axiom: in court he was the
embodiment OF law in all its intIica
Giles; he seemed possessed OF power
of hypnotism, which he manifested II
his manipulation of the jury; he was
forceful. virile, much dreaded an
tagonist, though he was ever reau!
to temper justice with mercy, ant
never carried on war except within
the enyirons Of the temple of justice
Though the party and the people 0
the district have long looked upoi
t him as a judicial possibility, he woul'
( never consent to abandon the prac
tice for the honor of the bench, n
! was a lawyer to the end.
: Daniel r. Miller was possessed Q
an analytical mind; his powers 0
t discernment were wonderful; he wa
q composite, he would have become
Q great physician, great teacher, Q
preacher. had he SO turned nj
! thoughts, studies and energies in tn
formative period of his apprentice
ship in the pursuit of knowledge net
= essary to secure pre- eminence IN pre-
s fessional life. Look upon Dan F. Nil
: err either in the abstract Or In tn
concrete, he was a mental, vital colo'
sus.
He was the son of an illustriou
father whose mantle he took an
which he never trailed in the dust
the life OF all men is reflected in tn
ia attributes of their progeny. Bloc
II will tell. The science OF eugenies
y as fixed as the stars in the heavenl
y. canopy; truth is eternal; man Is mo
ID tai, God 1t eternal truth; God is In
d mortal; man is vulnerable; Achille
10 was vulnerable in the right heel an
10 thereby was slain by reason OF an a
IS row wound shot by the enyicus Par,
y Daniel F. Miller was vulnerable in II
lie right hypochondriac region, Cirrhos
lie was the poisoned arrow that destro
lie ed all that was earthly, all terrestri
ls life, all that was mortal. The soul
III Daniel F. Miller is still in life immo
- tai He has paid the debt to Nature
II law and It's penalties,
~ May his ashes rest in peace. 7
50 Is gone to rest. He has solved Il
philosophy OF human existence al
W the mystery of tiie human soul. Da
y iel F. Miller, the friend, the compa
~ ion, the counsellor. the citizen, t
~ husband and father, is but passil
memory-he was born we'll, liv'
well, and died well. Amen,