Newark post., 1921-11-09
University Professor
+ Dies After Short Illness
Body Taken 10 Connecticut
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DR.. Manns Represents Faculty a
Funeral

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The funeral services for DR.. Carl
ton Friend Miller, professor of chem (
istry at the University of Delaware,
who died last Friday night after a
short illness, were held at 3 o'clock
Sunday afternoon at his late home on
West Main Street. The services were !
attended by practically the entire !
faculty and large number of the |
student body. The body was taken to |
his former home at Wallingford,
Conn.,, Sunday night and services held
in church there Monday morning.
Interment was made in a Wallingford
cemetery.
The Rev. Frank Herson, pastor of
| the Newark M. E. Church, of which
church the deceased was organist,
conducted the services here. Mr..
Herson also paid tribute to the de-
ceased at the early services at the
church on Sunday. The pallbearers
were: Professor George E. Dutton,
DR.. r. w. Helm, DR.. Thomas F.
Manns, Professors T. r. Detjen,
Harold E. Tiffany and R. B. Harris.
Members of the Gamma Delta Rho
Fraternity, of which the deceased was
a member, attended the funeral in
body.
Dean E. Laurence Smith, Professor
C. o. Houghton, M. 0. Pence, John
L. Coyle, A. G. Wilkinson and Senator
John F Richards took the floral offer
ings received at the house to the train
in automobiles. DR.. Thomas F. Manns
went to Wallingford with the body as
representative of the faculty of the
University.
; DIR, Miller's death was due to
anemia, following a nervous break
: down. While his death had been eX-
pected for several days, it came as
shock to his many friends here, es-
! pecially members of the student body
of the University. He was SO years
of age.
DR. Miller suffered an attack OF
+ illness during the vacation period
p while visiting relatives in Nortf
i Carolina. He returned to Newark II
f Sentember. to resume his work at the
:, opening of the University, and ap
J. parently had entirely recovered. hi
= became i'll again about two weeks ag'
s and was confined to his bed for sew
f eral days. He left his bed one da!
last week to attend meeting OF tn
t. faculty, against the advice OF nj
t. physician, with the result that n
r. collapsed and had to return, n
s. gradually grew worse until the EN-
IT came at 10 o'clock Friday evening.
E. Professor Miller came to the UNI
s. versity of Delaware as professor o
chemistry in 1919 and was enterln
ID on his third year as member OF Tn
n faculty.. He was an excellent muslcla
and took an active part in organizln
the college orchestra and glee clu'
w His work in this respect had endeare
n, him to nearly every student at tn
!. University.
He was born at Wallingford, Conn
C. in 1885. He graduated from Wesleya
University with the degre OF y. r.
Up 1909 and from that year until l9l
u was an assistant in chemistry at 20
nell University. In 1914 he receive
as his Ph. D. degree at Cornell. he va
in an instructor in chemistry at NOR
Carolina State College from 1914
1917 and assistant professor OF cher
istrv at the same college from 1917
49,. 1919 when he came to Delaware
- professor of chemistry.
- This term DR.. Miller had oeen
~ ~ rector of the college hour exercise
~ arranging the programs for chap
~ " He was a Mason and member
.. three fraternities, the National ri
ternity, a national scholarship II
ternity, a national scholarship II
a local fraternity.