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Buried: Lot 154 Section 11 Cave Hill Cemetary, Louisville KY
38� 14.632'N 85� 42.803'W

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Shackelford Miller house, 1454 Fourth St., Louisville KY

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[Federal Justice Center, Judges of the United States Courts]

Miller, Shackelford Jr.
Born September 4, 1892, in Louisvillle, KY
Died November 24, 1965

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 16, 1939, to a seat vacated by Elwood Hamilton; Confirmed by the Senate on February 20, 1939, and received commission on March 4, 1939. Service terminated on December 20, 1945, due to appointment to another judicial position.

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Nominated by Harry S Truman on November 23, 1945, to a seat vacated by Elwood Hamilton; Confirmed by the Senate on December 4, 1945, and received commission on December 11, 1945. Served as chief judge, 1961-1962. Assumed senior status on November 1, 1965. Service terminated on November 24, 1965, due to death.

Education:
Princeton University, A.B., 1914

Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1917

Professional Career:
Private practice, Louisville, Kentucky, 1919-1939

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

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Louisville Bar Association
Memorial of Shackelford Miller, Jr.

Shackelford Miller, Jr., known affectionately to his many friends as "Shack," was born on September 4, 1892 and lived his ife in Louisville, a town which he loved. He was the second of three sons of a family which took an active part in the civic, political, and judicial life of Louisville and of Kentucky. His father, Shackelford Miller, was for many years a chancellor of the Jefferson Circuit Court and later Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. His mother who died in 1960 at the age of 99 was highly regarded for her many years of service in civic affairs and as a Democratic campaign volunteer and speech maker. His elder brother, Welman, died in 1913 and his younger brother, Neville, was dean of the University of Louisville Law School and later Mayor of Louisville in 1933-37.

Shackelford spent his boyhood days at the family residence on Fourth Street near Hill and attended the Gavin H. Cochran School where he played with many of the boys who later became prominent in Louisville affairs. Boys in those days did not go away to prep schools and indeed it was not necessary, as the Louisville Male High School was a great school blessed with an inspiring faculty -- Reuben Post Halleck, Sammy Tinsley, Harrison Dickinson Cannon, Bill Bradbury, Ralph Hill, J. B. Carpenter, Maxie and "zero next" Smith to mention but a few, all of which are remembered with affection by Louisville youth of that era. Shackelford received many honors while at High School and graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1910. His interest in High School was life long and the High School alumni honored him in 1956 with the school's outstanding alumnus award.

He graduated from Princeton in 1914 and pursued his studies at the Harvard Law School from which he received his LL.B degree in 1917. He joined the army in the spring of 1917, trained at Fort Myer, Camp Taylor, and Fort Knox. In August, 1917, he married Francis S. Effinger of Staunton, Va., and Washington, D. C. In 1918 he went to France as captain in the 335th Field Artillery Regiment.

Upon his return from France in 1919, he formed with his father, who had retired from the Court of Appeals, the law firm of Miller and Miller. In 1920 they were joined by his younger brother, Neville, and they continued the firm after the death of their father in 1924 until 1930 when Neville became dean of the University Louisville Law School. Shackelford was then associated for a number of years with Wilson W. Wyatt and later formed with Arthur Grafton the law firm of Miller and Grafton and engaged in private practice until 1939 when he was appointed by President Roosevelt as Federal District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, suceeding Judge Elwood Hamilton who had been elevated to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Following the death of Judge Hamilton in 1945, Shackelford was appointed by President Truman to suceed Judge Hamilton and served as Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit for 19 years until his resignation on November 1, 1965. He was Chief Judge during 1961-62.

The legal profession had a high regard for Shackelford's judicial talents. The late Judge Elwood Hamilton, in a tribute to him at a 1939 dinner of the Louisville Bar Association, said he possessed "those qualities which make for high judicial standing, including all-important mental and moral honesty and fairness of mind."

Following the death of his wife in 1931, Shackelford became active in Democratic affairs and served as Chairman of the Democratic City and County Executive Committee from 1932 to 1939. He was Chairman of the Democratic State Campaign Committee in 1938 and directed the successful primary campaign of Senator Alben W. Barkley.

Like his father he was alway interested and helpful to the young lawyer. For many years he was on the faculty and secretary-treasurer of the Jefferson School of Law where he taught many of the present members of the Louisville Bar. In 1965 he was honored by a dinner given by all his former law clerks, many of them coming from distant cities to attend and pay him tribute. Whenever a new judge was appointed to the Sixth Circuit, Shackelford always made a special effort to help him become accustomed to the duties of his office.

He represented the U. S. Government as a special attorney handling Louisville's slum clearance and low cost housing projects and was receiver of the old Banco-Kentucky Co.

He was active in the affairs of the Louisville Bar Association of which he was president in 1932 and of the Kentucky State Bar Association which honored him with the Outstanding Member of the Year Award in 1961. He was also active in the affairs of the American Bar Association and as a member of a special ABA committee, he worked for three years helping draft the American Bar Association's code of disciplinary procedures, and for a number of years he served as a member of the association's standing committee on professional ethics. He was a member of the board of directors of the Amerian Judiciary Society and was appointed by the Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1960 to serve on a special committee to recommend improvement of the rules of practice for federal courts.

Shackelford loved his many friends in Louisville, and his Louisville friends were dear to his heart. He was a member of the Louisville County Club, the Pendennis Club, the Filson Club, the Helium Club, the Lawyers Club, and the Second Presbyterian Church.

He died on November 24, 1965 in his 74th year. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Francis (Peggy) Martin and her three children and his brother, Neville, of Washington, D.C., also by four additional grandchildren, the children of his daughter, Mrs. Robert (Frances) Hultgren of Colonia, New Jersey who died in 1964. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetary, Louisville.

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Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, LTD., Chicago, IL, 1947

Miller, Shackelford, Jr., judge; b. Louisville, KY., 4 Sept. 1892; s. Shackelford and Mary Floyd (Welman) M.; A.B., Princeton Univ., 1914; LL.B., Harvard Law Sch., 1917; m. Frances S. Effinger, 11 Aug. 1917 (dec. 8 May 1931); children -- Frances E., Margaret H. Admitted to Ky. and Federal bars, 1919; mem. Miller & Miller (with father and brother), 1919-30; private practice, 1930-36; mem. Miller & Grafton, 1937-39; U.S. dist judge for Western Dist. of Ky., 1939-45; judge Court of Appeals 6th Circuit Court of Ky., since Nov. 1945. Chmm. Dem. County Exec. Com., Louisville, 1932-39; chmn. state campaign (primary) for A. W. Barkley, 1938; chmn. Dem. state campaign, fall, 1938. Mem. 1st O.T.C., Ft. Meyer, Va., May-Aug. 1917; commd. 2d lt., F.A., Aug. 1917, 1st with A.E.F., Sept. 1918-Feb. 1919; hon. discharged 1 Mar. 1919. Trustee Jefferson Sch. of Law, Louisville. Mem. Am., Ky. and Louisville bar assns., Ivy Club (Princeton). Presbyterian. Clubs: Pendennis, Louisville Country (Louisville). Home: Upper River Rd. Office: Federal Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

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In the Matter of the
Presentation of the Portrait
of the
Honorable Shackelford Miller, Jr.

CHIEF JUDGE WEICK: The court has convened en banc to receive the portrait of our late beloved colleague, Judge Shackelford Miller, Jr., who served the United States for more than twenty-six years, of which twenty years was served as a member of this Court and six and a half years as United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky. Judge Miller was Chief Judge of this Court in 1960 and 1961.

We are gratified at the large audience here today which has filled the courtroom with distinguished members of the Bench and Bar and includes the family and friends of Judge Miller.

I have a telegram here that's address to Neville Miller by Honorable Stanley Reed, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. It reads:

"Regretting my inability to attend meeting honoring Judge Shackelford Miller, I desire to express my approval of this recognition of his outstanding contribution to the administration of Justice."

Justice Potter Stewart expected to attend, but he has advised me that on account of other commitments he regrets very much that he cannot be here.

We are honored to have with us the Judges of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, which is Kentucky's highest Court. Judge Miller's father, Shackelford Miller, Sr., served as Chief Justice of that Court.

At this time the Court will recognize Judge Miller's brother Neville who is an attorney at law and practices in Washington, D.C. He is a former Mayor of Louisville. He will present the portrait of Judge Shackelford Miller.

MR. NEVILLE MILLER: Judge Weick, members of the Court, friends: It's a real honor for me to represent the family here today and to preent to this Court this portrait of Judge Miller.

There are others here who will talk about his life at the Bar and his life in District Court and his life here. I intend to limit my remarks largely to his boyhood days and to his day-to-day life outside the Court.

Judge Shackelford Miller was known to his friends as "Shack." He had a love of people. He was born in Louisville September the 4th, 1892; and he loved most of his life in Louisville, the town which he loved. His ancestors, the Millers, came from Virginia; and the Nevilles from North Carolina, and they come over the mountains to Kentucky and Tennessee.

He was truly a southern gentleman. He went to school in Louisville. Those were not the days that they sent the boys off to prep school. His father was a long-time Judge of Chancery Court in Louisville and then later on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and Chief Justice.

His mother, Mary Floyd Welman Miller, was born in 1861, just at the start of the War between the States. Those who knew her will know when I say that she was too young to participate in that war, but she lived for ninety-nine years, almost a hundred; and during that century she never hesitated to participate in any battle that came along. Our older brother, Welman, died in 1913 at the age of twenty-three, just at the start of his career.

Shackelford went to the public schools in Louisville and to high school, graduated from Princeton in 1914, from the Harvard Law School in 1917. At the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for the Army, was in the 325th Field Infantry, and served in France.

He married in August 1917 Francis Smith Effinger from Staunton, Virginia and from Washington, D.C., and they had two lovely daughters. Frances, the older daughter, Mrs. Robert Hultgren of Colonia, New Jersey, died in 1964; and we are so happy today to have Peggy, the younger daughter, and her husband and her three young boys here with us today. We also are happy to have John Hultgren, Frances' boy, the older boy, who had just unveiled the portrait.

We, naturally, as a family are very proud of Judge Miller. After the War was over Shack came back to Louisville and formed a partnership with his father, Miller and Miller, and practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky. I had the honor to join that firm in 1920, and father died in 1924. We continued to practice until 1930 when I joined the faculty of the University of Louisville Law School. Shackelford then was associated with Wilson Wyatt and then later with Arthur Grafton under the firm of Miller and Grafton.

Shackelford was raised in a family that the problems of the day, the national, the international problems, were a daily discussion, and it was not unusual or unknown for us to take part in those discussions. It was therefore but natural for Shackelford to take part later in public life.

He had never engaged in politics, but after the death of his wife in 1931, in 1932, he became Chairman of the City and County Executive Committee in Louisville and served until 1939. In 1938 he was Chairman of the Kentucky State Democratic Committee and managed the successful campaign of Senator Alben W. Barkley.

In 1939 he was appointed to the District Court by President Roosevelt and he served there for six and a half years. During those six and a half years he was very closely associated with Judge Elwood Hamilton, whose picture is hanging here. Judge Hamilton had come to this Court and Shackelford succeeded him. They were very friendly and loved each other.

I have many things about which I could reminisce, but I want to tell you just one story about them. Shackelford and I started practicing law in a little building, a little room off our father's room. His desk was on this side and my desk was on this side; and we had to be careful that we didn't get up at the same time because if we did the backs of our chairs would hit each other. We were happy. I don't think we could have more than one client in at a time, but that was all right; we sometimes didn't even have that one client.

Later he was appointed District Judge and Judge Hamilton was Judge of this Court. Judge Hamilton called me one day and said, "Neville, why don't you come down and let us show you our new quarters?"

I went down there, and it was just like a bride showing her in-laws the house that her own father had given her. They showed me their quarters. You came in here, a room for the secretary, Mrs. Eudaly; and then Shack had a great big office and then there was a great big library; and then Judge Hamilton had a great big office and then there was an office for his secretary and then an office for his law clerk; it extended all the way back across the Federal Building.

And after they had shown me all these Judge Hamilton said, "Neville, what do you think of our quarters?" And thinking back to those days when we had been so happy in that little room backed up against each other, I said to Judge Hamilton: "You know, as a brother of Shack, I think its wonderful, but as a taxpayer --" And I never finished.

Shack enjoyed his life on the District Court. He liked people. He liked lawyers. He liked to hear them litigate. He liked to watch the juries. And when Judge Hamilton died and Shack was appointed to this Bench up here, it ws with some misgiving that he left the District Court to come here because he at that time had an idea that he would be -- pardon me, Judge -- getting into an ivory tower, which I don't think he was.

But he came, and he became a part of what is referred to in the ceremonies in connection with Judge Simons as the "Old Court," a wonderful Court and very unique in character. Many of their pictures are here on the wall today; Judge Xenophon Hicks, Judge Florence Allen, Judge Simons, Judge John D. Martin and Judge McAllister and later Judge Potter Stewart.

They were a congenial Court. I have been with them at times when, after Court session, they went over to the club for lunch. He was devoted to them. One by one they passed on, and they were succeeded by the "New Court" which we have with us today; and he, being a lover of man, became devoted to them just as he was devoted to the Old Court.

He used to talk to me about the pleasures he had with the Judges here and the experiences and the conversations and talks that they had. And I think one of the things he missed as much as anything was: As you remember, Judge John D. Martin, who was an unusual character, loved baseball and used to take the whole Court to the baseball games when the Cincinnati Reds were playing here. It was a pleasant experience. Anout nineteen-twenty years he served in this courtroom and they were the happiest days of his life.

He loved Louisville, and he loved the life in Louisville. He was a widower; and I won't say that he was the answer to any maiden's dream, but he was the answer to a matron's desire for an extra man at a party. He enjoyed parties, and many of the dinner parties in Louisville were enlivened by his wit and humor and expressions.

The summer in Louisville is hot. We used to try to get him to come up to Cape Cod. There was only one person I think could get him out of Louisville. I see that person here today, and that was Roy Shelbourne. He used to take him to the Bar Association meetings but, as soon as the Bar Association meetings were over, back he went to hot Louisville to enjoy being that extra man at the various parties in Louisville.

Like his father, he was interested in the young lawyers. He taught for many years at the Jefferson School of Law, and he taught many of the present members of the Louisville Bar. I remember he said that when he got a good brief from one of his former students, how proud he was; and when he got a brief that was not quite so good he said, "I don't think I did quite as good a job on that boy as I should have."

He loved his law clerks, that very grand group of boys who served him as law clerks over the years.

He was active in Louisville's Bar Association, of which he was president in 1932. He was active in the Kentucky Bar Association and the Kentucky Bar Association honored him in 1961 with the Distinguished Lawyers Award. He was active in the American Bar Association and for many years served on the Ethics Committee of that Bar Association.

He died on November the 24th, 1965. He had lived a long, useful and happy life. We are happy here today because his opinions reflecting his law and his ability as a lawyer and his philosophy of life are reported in the official reports; but I don't know that you know a man from reading his opinions. It's so much better to have a view of him and to know what he looked like.

This portrait was painted by Mrs. Doris Leist of Louisville; and we think that the portrait has caught that happy smile and that love of man which was so much a part of him.

Thank you. (Applause.)

CHIEF JUDGE WIECK: Thank you, Mr. Miller.

At this time I would like to recognize one of Judge Miller's colleagues. Judge Cecil.

JUDGE CECIL: Judge Weick and friends of Judge Miller, members of the family:

Judge Miller, "Shack" as he was affectionately known to us, was one of the most gracious gentlemen I ever knew. He was gentle in manner, kind to and considerate of everyone with whom he cam in contact. He was a delightful companion, the kind of person whose company was always sought.

We, his associates, never tired of hearing his delightful and entertaining stories of Kentucky. His hearty laugh was contagious. Where Shack was there was good fellowship.

Judge Miller loved the Court, and in his work on the Court he was a scholar of rare attainment. He was meticulous in writing his opinions and always supported every proposition with authority. He was not content with one citation. He exhausted the authorities on every point. He could not bring himself to dispose of a case without stating the reasons for his conclusions.

He expected good work of the lawyers, too. I once heard him say with reference to a brief, "Why, he hasn't cited a single authority." That lawyer wrote another brief.

His wise counsel was often sought by his associates. We looked to him for guidance on practical problems and many questions of procedure.

As a gentleman, companion, friend and scholar Judge Miller had no peer. I find words inadequate to describe my image of Judge Miller. I miss him very much and I shall always remember him with deepest affection.

CHIEF JUDGE WEICK: Thank you, Judge Cecil.

At this time I would like to call on another colleague of Judge Miller, Honorable Clifford O'Sullivan.

JUDGE O'SULLIVAN: Judge Weick and members of this Court and the people gathered here:

It's an honor for me to be permitted a small part in today's ceremonies; I specially appreciate the privilege because it give me opportunity to make public and conspicuous declaration of the affection and high regard in which I held the man whose portrait is unveiled in this courtroom today; it lets me join in telling you, his friends and family, what we, his one-time colleagues, thought of him.

It is not just to say something nice, some encomium traditional to such an occasion as this, that we tell you, and as credible witnesses, that Shackelford Miller was in the time of his service one of the very best Judges of the entire Federal judiciary. Perhaps there is no way in which I could more convincingly support this estimate of Judge Miller than to say that it was the shared view of his colleagues that Shackelford Miller's capabilities were such that he would have served indeed with distinction as a member of the highest Court in this land had circumstances cooperated to bring that about.

Judge Miller's warm personality, which, as Judge Cecil has said, made it easy for us to address him as "Shack," never detractd from the dignity which he carried so gracefully at all times. His sense of humor, the many atractive facets of his personality and his capacity as a raconteur made him a standout in any company.

Referring, as Judge Cecil did, to his love to tell stories, he had some favority stories which, at our own command, we heard over and over again. We always knew what was coming, but his way of telling a story and his own enjoyment in the telling of it was such that each repetition was a fresh delight for all of us who heard it.

This trait stayed with him through the final days of his life. One one of these days I was trying to reach his secretary, Mrs. Chapman. I did not wish to bother Shack because I knew of his illness. I learned that Mrs. Chapman would probably be at the Norton Memorial Hospital. I called intending to talk to her but the operator at the hospital put me directly through to Judge Miller's room and he answered. I was saddened indeed to hear the voice of a very sick man. This happened at a time when I also was in bed following some surgery and also at the time that President Johnson was laid up following the removal of his gall bladder.

After some less than happy exchanges, Shack's old-time sense of humor revived, and the last thing he said to me before our final good-byes was about like this. "Judge Cliff -: And when he always called me Judge Cliff I knew here was something coming. He said: "Judge Cliff, how do you think the Ship of State can keep afloat with you, President Johnson and myself all in dry dock at the same time?" I am sure that when he uttered that last happy statement Shack well knew that he was near the end of his life.

Getting to know, to work with and sometimes to play with Shackelford Miller were among the very good things that my membership on this Court brought to me; and however long a kind providence and my own good behavior premit me to continue to serve in this courtroom, the portrait unveiled today will he here to keep always fresh my awareness and pride that Shackelford was my friend and my colleague.

Thank you.

CHIEF JUDGE WEICK: Thank you, Judge O'Sullivan.

At this time I would like to recognize the Honorable James Milliken, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Judge Milliken.

JUDGE MILLIKEN: If it please the Court I can't testify as intimately about the legal skill of Judge Miller, I knew it by reputation; and in two or three cases, like the one involving the oil under the river at Henderson, I thought he wrote a masterful opinion. But I can testify, like Neville and you, Judge O'Sullivan and Judge Cecil, about the marvelous sociability of the man.

I remember one occasion here at the Regional Bar meeting. Judge Combs and I had a colleague on the Court, Judge Porter Sims, who had a scrumtious sense of humor, and Shack loved him too. And Porter had written in the case of Jackson against the Commonwealth, that he quoted the language of the lady who had cussed ut the County Attorney for prosecuting her husband, and so she ws indicted and convicted for assault, and we reversed it. And Porter in that particular opinion said: "When a lady of Hattie's rugged disposition berates a man, he might be embarrassed, even humiliated, but he should thank God that women are so often wrong."

And Shack pulled that out of his wallet in front of Judge Sims and Judge Potter Stewart and read it and said: "You know, it's time you learned the possibilities in a judge with the initials P.S." Apparently Judge Stewart learned it.

My first acquaintance with Judge Miller was before he was a Judge when he appeared before a legislative committee in behalf of some legislation he wanted in Louisville. And I don't remember whether he convinced me, but he won me and I stayed won from then on. And as Judge Combs knows, he and I are from the Old Court on the Court of Appeals.

At the time we had our first case involving the new rules, new Federal rules that we had adopted in Kentucky, we had a mean one that we couldn't tell from reading the books just which way to go, and I had drawn it. So I said, "Well, let's ask Judge Miller." So I called him up and Shack said, "Send them down. Send me down the briefs." So I sent them on down. A couple of days later I got a two-page letter what he would do with it, and that's exactly what we did, and that was our first case involving the Federal rules in the State Court.

I can remember one other incident, since we are talking about the stories about Judge Miller. At the Regional Bar meeting in Louisville about fifteen years ago Judge Miller was the MC at the banquet and John Foster Dulles was the speaker and Judge Medina. I chided Judge Miller afterwards about converting a Regional Bar meeting into a Princeton reuinion; and he, of course, denied it.

But the next morning the delegates were all going over to Lexington to visit a stock farm and the buses were lined up along the Broadway side of Brown Hotel, and some of the people were coming out the Fourth Street entrance around the corner. Judge Miller was standing at the corner being a gracious host and signaling them to come around, that the buses were over here on the Broadway side.

Just about that time a dapper little man in his Sunday best come up to me and in a real souther Kentucky drawl said: "I'm from Princeton. I just got in on the I.C. Can you tell me where this Republican convention is?"

I said: "I don't know, but see that man down on the corner, the one that's ushering these people this way?"

He said, "Yes."

I said, "You go right down to him and you tell him just what you told me. He is from Princeton, too."

So he went down and I watched. Shack was a little bewildered at first. THen he saw me and he started laughing. He came over and he said, "If you get much more evidence, I will be convinced."

We were all very fond of him. We will miss him. I think that's the finest tribute I can say about him.

CHIEF JUDGE WEICK: Thank you, Judge Milliken.

At this time I would like to call on Mr. Andrew Clark, who is representing the Kentucky State Bar Association. Mr. Clark.

MR. ANDREW CLARK: Members of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: I am here representing the Honorable Olie J. Bowen, President of our Kentucky State Bar Association who is unable to be with us today because of a previous commitment. Mr. Carl Ebert and I, members of the Board of Governors, are pleased to have an opportunity to take part in this program in honor of a distinguished jurist, Judge Shackelford Miller.

He was recognized I think by all members of the Bar for his service as a lawyer, as a teacher and a Judge. We of the Bar recognized him for his service to the members of the organized Bar of Kentucky by recognition as has been mentioned previously.

Judge Miller, in the true tradition of the representatives of the Kentucky Bar on the courts in our land, gave service that has been recognized by tributes by those who knew him far better that we could express on his behalf today.

Suffice to say that the members of the Bar of Kentucky are proud of his service, and we take honor in having the privilege today to pay tribute on behalf of all the Bar of Kentucky in his behalf at this ceremony presenting his portrait to hang on the walls of this distinguised Court and to be recognized for the service which he has given to the public, to the Bench and to the Bar of his nation.

Thank you.

CHIEF JUDGE WEICK: Thank you, Mr. Clark.

At this time I would like to call on Mr. Ralph Logan, who is President of the Louisville Bar Association.

MR. RALPH LOGAN:

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Engagement Notice (aprox 27 Dec 1946)

Miller -- Hultgren

Judge Shackelford Miller, Jr., announces the engagement of his daughter, Miss Frances Effinger Miller, to Mr. Robert Arthur Hultgren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Hultgren, Westfield, N.J. Miss Miller was graduated from the Louisville Collegiate School and attended Vassar College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She was active in the American Theatre Wing War Service. Mr. Hultgren attended Washington University and served three and one-half years in the Pacific.

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Obituary, The New York Times, 17 Apr 1964

Mrs. Robert Hultgren
Special to The New York Times

COLONIA, N.J., April 16 -- Mrs. Frances Miller Hultgren of 1 Runnymead Road, wife of Robert A. Hultgren and daughter of Shackelford Miller, a circuit judge at the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, died yesterday at Rahway Memorial Hospital, Rahway. She was 43 years old.

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Obituary, Elizabeth Journal 16 Apr 1964

HULTGREN -- Mrs. Frances on April 15, 1964 of 1 Runnymede Road, Colonia, N.J., beloved daughter of Judge Shackelford and the late Margaret Miller, beloved wife of Robert A. Hultgren, loving mother of John R., Laurence M., Miss Eloise F. and Miss Jennifer M. Hultgren, sister of Mrs. Margaret Martin.

Funeral services Friday, April 17, 1964 at 11 a.m. at the Leher Funeral Home, 275 W Milton Ave., Rahway with Rev. Robert A. Wieman officiating. Cremation Rosehill Crematory, Linden.

Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 7-9 p.m.

Mrs. R. A. Hultgren, 43;
Kin of U.S. Judge

COLONIA -- Mrs. Frances Miller Hultgren, 43, wife of Robert A. Hultgren, of 1 Runnymede Road died yesterday in Rahway Hospital after a brief illness.

Her father, Shackelford Miller is a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Cincinnati.

Mrs. Hultgren, born in Louisville, Ky., was a member of Second Presbyterian Church, Rahway, and the Vasser Club of New York City.

Besides her husband and father, other survivors include four children, Laurence M., John R., Miss Eloise F. and Miss Jennifer M. Hultgren, all at home; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Martin, Louisville, and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral service will be at the Lehrer Funeral Home, 275 W. Milton Ave., Rahway.

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Program Director - Producer for National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York City.

Most notable television show affiliations:
* The Howdy Doody Show
* The Pinky Lee Show
* The Ruff and Ready Show
* The Shari Lewis Show
* GE (General Electric) College Bowl
* Jeopardy!

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Obituary, The New York Times, 22 Jan 1970

Robert A. Hultgren
Special to The New York Times

COLONIA, N.J., Jan 21 -- Robert A. Hultgren, a program director for National Broadcasting Company television in New York, died yesterday at his home here. He was 48 years old and lived at 1 Runnymede Road. He was associated with N.B.C. for 20 years.

Surviving are his father, Arthur C. Hultgren, two daughters, two sons and a sister. His wife, Frances, died.

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Served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals (which in 1975 became the Kentucky Supreme Court) from 1911 - 1919 (Chief Justice from 1915 - 1917). Source: Unversity of Louisville Law Library. (Photo available)

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From "The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, H. Levin, The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1897.

Shackelford Miller, of Louisville, was born in Greene county, Missouri, on the 29th of February, 1856. In a land where nobility is not dependent upon birth, but upon character, one is justly proud of a family which through generations has preserved untarnished an honored name. For more than a century the Millers have been residents of Jefferson county, Kentucky. Robert Miller, a native of King and Queen county, Virginia, left his native state in 1796, and , accompanied by his twin brother, Buckner Miller, made his way to Kentucky on foot, coming through Cumberland Gap. He settled at Lower Ponds, Jefferson county, where his remaining days were passed, his death occuring in 1863, when he had reached the advanced age of eighty-nine years. His son, John A. Miller, was born there in 1824, and grew to manhood on the old homestead. In Hickman county, Kentucky, he married Barbara Anne Nevill, and thus were united two of the old southern families, for Mrs. Miller was the daughter of Colonel Solomon C. Nevill, of Montgomery county, Tennessee. The Nevills were descended from an old historic family of England, the first representatives of the name having located in North Carolina, whence members of the family afterward engaged in the handling of tobacco for export.

The country schools of Greene county, Missouri, afforded Shackelford Miller his early educational advantages. In 1873 he came to Louisville to live with his maternal grandfather and entered the freshman class of the Male High School, where at the end of the second scholastic year he was distinguished as the winner of the "alumni prize" for the highest average standing in his class. He was graduated in 1877 and soon after began preparation for the bar as a student in the Louisville Law School, where he was graduated in 1879. In the meantime he had also continued his reading in the office of Hon. Isaac Caldwell, at the time the leader of the Kentucy bar. Admitted to the bar he at once began practice and for several years was associated with Judge James S. Pirtle. Since 1888 he has been a member of the well-known law firm of Barnett, Miller & Barnett, his partners being Judge Andrew Barnett, and the latter's son, Tyler Barnett, who was a classmate of Mr. Miller both in the high school and law school. Their practice is general and Mr. Miller's advancement in his profession has been rapid and steady, while his high position is due not less to his industry and integrity than to his legal and special knowledge, his ability and experience. There is no profession that demands a more diversified general knowledge than the law, and in addition to his accurate and profound legal learning he has a broad knowledge of history and literature. He has been a thorough student of both English and American constitutional history, and has devoted much time and study to the early history of Kentucky. His reading has been largely along these lines, and his library contains nearly all the standard historical works, which admirably supplement a large and well selected law library. In Janurary, 1896, he was elected by the bar special judge to fill the place of Judge Edwards, disabled by sickness, and on the bench he has given evidence of high judicial ability.

Judge Miller exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party and was presidential elector for the Louisville district in 1888. He took an active part in the campaign of 1876, although he had not then attained his majority, and in 1884 was assistant Democratic elector for the fifth congressional district of Kentucky. He has studied closely the national issues and is an effective and popular campaign speaker, his oratory moving large audiences, which his logic appeals to their calmer judgement. Since 1891 he has been director of the Polytechnic Society, is a director of the public library and is deeply interested in all measures tending to the advancement of the city and state. He belongs to the Filson Club, is vice president of the Watterson Club, a director of the Presbyterian Orphanage, and an elder in the First Presbyterian church of Louisville.

Judge Miller was married in 1888 to Miss Mary Floyd Welman, daughter of Floyd C. Welman, and they have three interesting sons, -- Welman, Shackelford and Neville.

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.

SHACKELFORD MILLER was born near Springfield, Mo., February 29, 1856, and is a son of John A. and Barbara (Neville) Miller, the former a native of Jefferson County, Ky., the latter of Montgomery County, Tenn. His maternal grandfather, Solomon C. Neville, was born near Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, but came early to Kentucky, and was one of the first tobacco merchants in the State; he died in 1882. His grandfather, Robert Miller, came from King and Queen's County, Va., to Kentucky, in 1796. The subject of this sketch was educated in the schools of Louisville, and graduated from the Male High School in 1877. He studied law under Hon. Isaac Caldwell, and graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville in 1879. He was assistant presidential elector in 1884, on the Democratic ticket, and is elector for the same district in 1888. For eight years he was associated with Judge Pirtle in the practice of law; is a member of the Filson Club, and devotes considerable attention to historical research. He is a good writer, a fine speaker, and making a good record at the bar as a lawyer. His paper prepared for the Filson Club on the "Life and Times of Governor Garrard" received the most flattering
commendation from the Club.

Miller Neville Caldwell Pirtle
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Montgomery-TN King_Queen-VA NC MO

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Married in Louisville (Jefferson) KY on 14 Nov 1888

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Louisville Male High School Hall of Fame Inductee, Class of 1877

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Shackelford Miller, Jr. letter of July 17, 1959:
My father was born February 29, 1856, and moved from Missouri to Louisville, Kentucky, when he was about 16 years of age. He married my mother, Mary Floyd Welman of Louisville, Kentucky, on November 14, 1888. He practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, for a number of years, served as judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Chancery Branch, in Louisville, Kentucky, for about fifteen years and served one term of eight years on the Kentucky Court of Appeals at Frankfort, Kentucky, two years of which he served as Chief Justice. This term was from January, 1911, to January, 1919. He returned to the practice of law in Louisville. He died in October, 1924.

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Buried: Lot 154 Section 11
N38 14.650 W 085 42.819
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Mrs. Shackelford Miller, Sr. (the former Miss Mary Floyd Welman) died October 13, 1960 at 11 p.m. at Our Lady of the Angels Convalescent Home, 1027 Cherokee Road one month after her 99th birthday, September 12.

Mrs. Miller's devotion to intellectual pursuits was illustrated in 1957 when she told a friend that she allowed no day to pass without committing to memory a passage of poetry or prose. "I'm not going to become a forgetful old woman," she said. She demonstrated her mental powers in the summer of 1957 when she took part in the celebration at Liberty Hall in Frankfort commemorating the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to Kentucky. As a representative of the Colonial Dames, Mrs. Miller recited from memory a poem appropriate for the occasion.

Miss Welman attended the Old Louisville Female High School where at age sixteen she first met her future husband in 1877 during a production of "Trial for Breach of Promise" in which she had a leading part and in which Shackelford Miller, an older man of twenty-one was among the law students, graduates of Yale, who took part in the play to give it a legal flavor, also has a part. His most famous line, she later recalled, was a declaration in which he "denied the allegation and defied the allegator" which brought down the house.

Miss Welman later graduated from the old Hampton College and subsequently taught there for several years. She was a firm believer in which is now known as a "classical education" but she also believed that modern educational emphasis has had the worthwhile result of awakening in women a feeling of responsibility towards their City, State and Federal Government.

For more than 50 years a member of the Louisville Woman's Club and having served as its president, Mrs. Miller drove her own car to club meetings until she was 90. A Christian Scientist, Mrs. Miller recalled a few years before he death that she had once made a compromise with her religious beliefs at the urging of her sons subscribing to medical science.

Mrs. Miller first began making speaches for "worthy causes" and for political candidates in 1898. After World War I she made a state-wide speaking tour to enlist support for the participation of the United States in the League of Nations.

Shortly before this county entered World War II, Mrs. Miller, nearly 80 then, engaged in a series of impassioned speaches urging U.S. aid to beseiged Britian. France had fallen and the invasion of England by Germans was believed to be imminent. "England is fighting for all that our fathers fought for," Mrs. Miller said in a September, 1940, radio address. "Fighting for all that makes our lives worth while. How can we delay when so much is at stake? . . . You know and I know that America comes next. You know if England falls, Canada will be exhausted. You know that Mexico will be little protection to our southern border. All this trust in the ocean is outdated. All this talk about protection of the oceans is foolish. It is the kind of talk that doomed France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark."

At the age of 91, in 1954 she served as honory chairman of the Volunteers for Adlai Stevenson in Kentucky when her loyalty to the Democratic Party was expressed in the prediction that America would "put Adlai Stevenson in the White House, not by a safe margin, but by a landslide." By this time she was regarded affectionately throughout Kentucky as "the Grand Lady of the Democratic Party." Her endorsement was eagerly sought by politicians in virtually every major campaign.

Mrs. Miller is survived by her two sons, six grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

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�Residence: BET 1853 AND 1866 Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA
�Death: 27 APR 1874 in Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana
�Birth: 12 FEB 1824 in Valley Station, Kentucky
�Residence: AFT 1866 Rockport, Indiana



Had son William according to brother Anthony's will.

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From "The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, H. Levin, The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1897.

John A. Miller, was born [in Lower Ponds, Jefferson County, Kentucky] in 1824, and grew to manhood on the old homestead. In Hickman county, Kentucky, he married Barbara Anne Nevill, and thus were united two of the old southern families, for Mrs. Miller was the daughter of Colonel Solomon C. Nevill, of Montgomery county, Tennessee. The Nevills were descended from an old historic family of England, the first representatives of the name having located in North Carolina, whence members of the family afterward engaged in the handling of tobacco for export.

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Shackelford Miller, Jr. letter of July 17, 1959:

I believe he worked for Solomon Neville in Rockport, Indiana. My mother seems to recall the fact that in rescuing some person from drowning he incurred some lung trouble and, like so many people at that time did, he moved to Springfield, Missouri, for a more favorable climate. I believe he lived on a farm in that locality and that the children of Barbara Ann Neville and himself were born there.

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Letter from Shackelford Miller Jr. to Mrs. Edward Nevill McAllister, July 17, 1959

July 17, 1959
Mrs. Edward Nevill McAllister
15 Forest Avenue
Cranford, N.J.

Dear Mrs. McAllister:

I have your letter of July 10 requesting information about the Nevill family, of which you have been making some research. Your earlier letter to Mrs. Mattie M. Roberts has been forwarded to me by her grandson, Laurence D. Ehrman, 666 S. 38th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

I am sorry that I cannot answer most of the questions you ask. Most of them deal with matters before I was born and the memory of my mother, who will be 98 next September 12, and which whom I have talked about these matters, is somewhat faint and not very clearn. I am under the impression that the family bible, in which my father recorded important events in the family history, is in the possession of my brother, Neville Miller, who lives in Washington, D.C. and has been practicing law there for a number of years, with offices in the Munsey Building. I gather from your letter that you have not contacted him. It may be that he can give you some additional information to that which is included in this letter.

The earliest of of the Neville family of whom I have any information is Solomon C. Neville of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Your letters indicate that you have information that he was born February 1, 1808. The only information which I have bearing on this date is that he was in the tobacco business and moved from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky, where he had a tobacco factory, operated largely by slaves. Following the emancipation of the slaves, he moved to Rockport, Indiana, about 1863. I do not know the date of his marriage or of his death.

I believe Barbara Ann Neville was his daughter, although I do not know whether she was an only child. I do not remember hearing about any brothers or sisters that she had. She was my grandmother and mother of my father, Shackelford Miller, Sr. She was living when I was a young boy and I remember her visits to our home in Louisville, Kentucky. I do not know the date of her birth. Your letters indicate that she died in 1912. I do not have the exact date of death, but since I was 20 years of age in 1912, that would seem approximately correct. When I knew her she lived in Corydon, Indiana, not far from New Albany, Indiana, which is right across the river from Louisville, Kentucky. One of her daughters, Joan Miller (Mrs. Wayne Cook), and her family also lived in Corydon, Indiana. Your letters contain the information that Barbara Ann Neville lived in Moscow, Kentucky, where she and her husband are buried. I never heard of Moscow, Kentucky, until I read it in your letter. I find that there is a Moscow, Kentucky, in Hickman County, which is in the southwestern part of the state. I doubt the correctness of the statement that she lived and was buried in Moscow, Kentucky. I believe that some of Mrs. Cook's family, to whom I will refer later, could probably give you information about Barbara Ann Neville.

Barbara Ann Neville married John Miller, my grandfather. I believe he worked for Solomon Neville in Rockport, Indiana. My mother seems to recall the fact that in rescuing some person from drowning he incurred some lung trouble and, like so many people at the time did, he moved to Springfield, Missouri, for a more favorable climate. I believe he lived on a farm in that locality and that the children of Barbara Ann Neville and himself were born there. I do not have the dates of his birth or death.

Barabara Ann Neville and John Miller had the following children:

(1) Neville Miller, who never married and I believe lived in Corydon, Indiana, at least during the last part of his life. He suffered the loss of sight in one eye through an illness and was hit in the other eye with a golf ball in later years. He was, accordinly, materially handicapped in his activities. I remember him when I was a young boy, but I do not recall the date of his death.

(2) Shackelford Miller, who was the father of three sons - Welman Miller, Shackelford Miller, Jr. (myself) and Neville Miller. My father was born February 29, 1856, and moved from Missouri to Louisville, Kentucky, when he was about 16 years of age. He married my mother, Mary Floyd Welman of Louisville, Kentucky on November 14, 1888. He practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, for a number of years, served as judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Chancery Branch, in Louisville, Kentucky, for about fifteen years and served one term of eight years on the Kentucky Court of Appeals in Frankfort, Kentucky, two of which he served as Chief Justice. This term was from January, 1911, to January, 1919. He returned to the practice of law in Louisville. He died October, 1924. My mother, who was born September 12, 1861, is still living and makes her home with me at 2411 Longest Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.

The oldest son, Welman Miller, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 9, 1890. While a young man he suffered two severe attacks of rheumatism which materially damaged his heart. He died from heart trouble, unmarried, in June, 1913.

I was the second sone and was born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 4, 1892. I graduated from the Louisville Male High School in 1910, from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B. degree, 1914, and from Harvard Law School, LLB degree, 1917. After serving in the first World War I practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, from July 1, 1919, to March 6, 1939, when I became United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, with headquarters at Louisville, Kentucky. On December 21, 1945, I became judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, which position I still hold. I continued to live in Louisville, Kentucky, although spending a good portion of my time in Cincinnati.

The third son was Neville Miller who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 17, 1894. He graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1912, from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B. degree, 1916, and from Harvard Law School, LLB degree, 1920. He practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, together with my father and me, for a number of years when he accepted a full-time position as Dean of the Law School of the University of Louisville from December, 1933 until December, 1937. He then served as assistant to the president of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, until about July, 1938, when he became President of the National Association of Broadcasters and moved to Washington, D.C., where he held this position for about five years. He continued to live in Washington, D.C., where he now practices law under the firm name of Miller & Schroeder, Munsey Building, Washington, D.C. Further details about my brother and me can be found in the current edition of Who's Who.

(3) Mattie Miller Roberts. Mrs. Roberts was married in Rockport, Indiana, to a lawyer named William Roberts. I do not know how long Mr. Roberts lived. My earliest recollection of my aunt, Mrs. Roberts, was as a widow living in Louisville. I do not know the dates of her birth, marriage or death, although I would say that her death was approximately twenty years ago, or more. She had two children, William S. Roberts, who was unmarried and who died March 12, 1957. I believe he was possibly five years older than I am. The other child was Ruth Roberts Ehrman who is the mother of Laurence D. Ehrman to who you recently wrote. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ehrman have been dead for a number of years. No doubt, Laurence D. Ehrman can give you any further information which you may want about this family.

(4) Mrs. Betty Miller Shutterly. Mrs. Shutterly married a doctor, E.E. Shutterly, in Evanston Illinois. They had a sone named Neville Shutterly who is married and lives somewhere in Florida, - I belive, Jacksonville. Mrs. Shutterly is still living, although very much an invalid. Her present address is 3200 Grant Street, Evanston, Illinois. She could probably give you any additional information which you may want about this branch of the family.

(5) Eulie Miller Webster, whose husband was Mr. W.A. Webster, usually known as "Bert." They lived, at least during the latter part of their lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where Mr. Webster was in the real estate business. They had one child, a girl, name Barbara Webster, who died may years ago, unmarried. Both Mr. and Mrs. Webster also died a number of years ago.

(6) Joan Miller Cook, who married Wayne Cook, a lawyer, in Corydon, Indiana. They had four daughters, as follows:

(a) Barbara Cook Walker (Mrs. Henry Means Walker), 400 S. Second Street, Maysville, Kentucky. Mrs. Walker died within the past year, but Mr. Walker is still living and can probably give you any information which you might want about his family. They have two sons, both of whom I understand are living.

(b) Betty Cook Sharp, who married Claude Sharp of New Albany, Indiana, I believe. Mrs. Sharp is dead and I do not know whether Claude Sharp is living or not. They had three children, namely, Wayne Sharp, 2019 E. Oak Street, New Albany, Indiana; Dorothy Anne Sharp (Mrs. James Conner), Silver Kills, Knob Avenue, New Albany, Indiana; and Josephine Sharp Black (Mrs. Robert Black), 1509 E. Spring Street, New Albany, Indiana.

(c) Lucy Cook Tuell, who married Chester E. Tuell. Mrs. Tuell is dead. I do not know about Chester Tuell. They had the following children, namely Mary Lee Tuell (Mrs. Ray Hatfield), 241 S. Rural, Indianapolis, Indiana; Chester E. Tuell, Jr., 11 Sherwood Court Apartments, Ridgeland Drive, Greenville, South Carolina; and Martina Tuess (Mrs. Robert Wheeldon, Jr.), 11407 Deering Road, Valley Station, Kentucky.

(d) Dorothy Cook Chisolm (Mrs. William M. Chisolm), Box 567, Oilton, Oklahoma. Mrs. Chisolm is living and no doubt can give you any additional information which you want about this branch of the family.

Sincerely,
Shackelford Miller, Jr.

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A reply from Mrs. McAllister, dated July 26, 1959 contains the following information:

The greater portion of the data sent in the letter of the 17th has been inserted into the Nevill Excursus, and is now with the professional who is setting up the Brasfield-Brassfield Genealogies.

In 1939 my husband corresponded with a number of the Neville kin of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, area. I note from his work that he shows source of information (for date of birth of your ancestor, Solomon C. Neville) as being (1) E. W. Neville, Chapel Hill, N.C., and (2) the later E.L. Neville of Monroe, La. Your Solomon C. Neville was son of Solomon Neville (April 3, 1777 - Jan. 20, 1848) and Susanna Walton, of Tennessee. The couple made their home in Clarksville, Tennessee; were the parents of nine children. Solomon Neville was the son of Jesse, who was the son of Benjamin, a large land-owner in North Carolina.

According to the recalls of my husband's Grandfather, the late Dr. Edwin J. Nevill, the family had large tobacco interest and it is understandable that in this work, your ancestor, Solomon C. Neville, made friends in other areas; one of whose daughter he married. My husband had search work done in records of a number of the Counties of Tennessee by Mrs. Edythe Whitley, known for the quality of her work, and she included in her report no Marriage Bond for Solomon C. Neville, which is my reason for the thought that Solomon C. married elsewhere. (Considered the genealogy of the Counties in Tennessee of areas of first interest and even so can so easily not locate what is near-by.) My husband's records show but one child for your ancestor, Solomon C. Neville, this child being Barbara Ann Neville.

Most coridally,
Annabelle C. McAllister

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.

Solomon C. Neville, was born near Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, but came early to Kentucky, and was one of the first tobacco merchants in the State; he died in 1882.

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Springfield-Greene County Library, Personal Reminiscences and Fragments of the Early History of Springfield and Greene County, Missouri

Col. Solomon C. Neville, who settled in the Grand Prairie country, came here from Kentucky. I have always understood he imported his Angora goats, either in 1859 or 1860. I know I have never seen any finer ones than he had, and I have seen them at the fairs, I suppose as fine as there are in the world. Hewas very enthusiastic over his prospects for successful Angora goat raising, but the war, of course, put him out of business.

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Shackelford Miller Jr. letter dated July 17, 1959:

He was in the tobacco business and moved from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky, where he had a tobacco factory, operated largely by slaves. Following the emancipation of the slaves, he moved to Rockport, Indiana, about 1863.

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From Obtuaries compiled from Clarksville Newparers, Mongomery County , TN, vol.2, p. 58: Nevill, Solomon C. age 73, Died about 21 Oct. 1881, in Lousiville, Kentucky. Came to Montgomery County, TN, from North Carolina in 1808. Settled near St. Bethlehem, now the Dunlop farm. In 1829, married Miss Frances Long, of Logan County , Kentucky. Leaves a wife. Engaged in buying and shipping tobacco. Clarksville Weekley Chronicle, 29 Oct. 1881, p3

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Benjamin Nevill was born about 1705. He resided in Edgecombe Co, NC by 1746. That area is now Halifax Co., NC.

He was probably born in Nansemond County, Virginia. He lived in Edgecombe (now Halifax Coun y , North Carolina) on Feb. 11, 1746/7 when he bought 300 acres on Fishing Creek from John Hubbard.

Will: Halifax County, North Carolina
Nevill, Benjamin Halifax County ,North Carolina
November 15, 1758. September Court 1758. Sons Benjamin and Jesse, daughter Elizabeth, wife Elizabeth and Charles Drury Executors. Test, Jno Marshall Jr, Amy Marshall, Ro ert Sanders.

Benjamin made his will in Halifax County,North Carolina in 1759, giving his land in Halifax County,North Carolina, to his son Benjamin. He gave his land in Edgecombe and Granville to his son Jesse, and personal property to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Elizabeth. Will probated in 1759 Benjamin was in Nansemond County ,VA 1704, in Edgecombe, County, North Carolina 1745

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information on the Benjamin Neville in Edgecombe, North Carolina: He "was born about 1705, probably in Nansemond County , Virginia He lived in Edgecombe (now Halifax County , North Carolina) on Feb. 11, 1746/7 when he bought 300 acres on Fishing Creek from John Hubbard." The rest of the information continues pretty much along the same line as Boddie's History of Southern Families on the Nevilles. Boddies only shows one Benjamin after John and Elizabeth, and he states that the Benjamin is the generation after John and Elizabeth is the one who went to Halifax from Nansemond. This supposition raises some concern as he is starting to buy land in North Carolina at age 60.


Will: Halifax County,North Carolina
Nevill, Benjamin Halifax County,North Carolina
November 15, 1758. September Court 1758. Sons Benjamin and Jesse, daughter Elizabeth, wife Elizabeth and Charles Drury Executors. Test, Jno Marshall Jr, Amy Marshall, Robert Sanders.

Benjamin made his will in Halifax County,North Carolina
in 1759, giving his land in Halifax County,North Carolina
, to his son Benjamin. He gave his land in Edgecombe and Granville to his son Jesse,and personal property to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Elizabeth. The copy of Benjamin's will in my file. Will probated in 1759 Benjamin was in Nansemond County ,VA 1704, in Edgecombe, County, North Carolina 1745

Two sources for information on the Benjamin Nevill of North Carolina line are John Bennett Boddie's HISTORICAL SOUTHERN FAMILIES, Vol. V, and David born Trimble's AMERICAN ORIGINS. Both sources have been widely quoted and used as gospel for the North Carolina line. (I wonder if Boddie and Booger knew each other?) However, as Kathy pointed out, there are many "possibles" in Trimble's account of the Nevills. Of course, if a "fact" on lineage is "possible," it is also "not possible."

In Boddie's History. Southern Families, he states that Benjamin Nevill who was mentioned as a son in the deed of John and Elizabeth Nevill in 1689, Isle of Wight County , VA, and who was also supposed to be the Benjamin Nevill holding
land 475 acres of land in Nansemond County , VA, in 1704 is the same Benjamin Nevill who is first found in Edgecombe County , North Carolina records (Granville/Halifax/Orange County off Edgecombe County ) in 1745-6 when he bought several tracts of land. If the Benj. in Nansemond County , VA, was holding land in 1704, he would likely have been born ca 1685 or before. John and Elizabeth, his supposed parents, were in a deed together on 16 May 1665 in Nansemond when they sold land in Isle of Wight County, Virginia to Arthur Skinner. Therefore, it would seem likely their son Benjamin would have been born closer to 1665 than 1685. Boddie would have us believe that Benjamin, in his later life (at least late 50s but probably much older) moved off to North Carolina and began many new transactions which lasted over a period of many years. (As Ren once pointed out, it seems more likely that Benj., at the age he would probably have been by 1745-6, would have been spending his money on liquor and fancy women instead of trooping off to North Carolina and engaging in buying and selling land.) The will of Benj. Nevill (first found in North Carolina in Edgecombe County in 1745-6) was recorded 15 Nov. 1758 in Halifax County , North Carolina. The real problem is that Boddie has no proof that the Benjamin Nevill in Nansemond County, VA, is the same Benjamin in Edgecombe County in 1745-6. > jdfaulk@@hop-uky.campus.mci.net 9/9/97

Benjamin Nevill paid quit rents on 475 acres in Nansemond County, VirginiaBenjamin lived in Edgecombe(now Halifax County ) He bought lots of land around 1746 to 1750 in the Elk Marsh Area. Benjamin received a grant of 302 acres near Taylor's Creek in Granville County from the Earl of Granville in March 25,1752.He received another grant in May 1755 near Elk Marsh in Halifax County, North Carolina,also from Earl of Granville.

This from "The Flowering of the Maryland Palatine", DAR Index.The North Carolina Historal and Genealogical Register Vol.1 #3 Abstracts of Wills.

Benjamin m. Elizabeth ?,had Benjamin,m. Sarah Nevill, Jesse,b.24 Sept.,1746 Halifax County,North Carolina
m. Elizabeth Parke and Elizabeth.

Benjamin Sr. sold land to nephew Thomas Neville. Hope this will help. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Now as to Benjamin Neville wife Elizabeth son of John Neville was born in >Nansemond County ,VA made his will Nov.15,1758,will was probated Sept.1759 in >Halifax County , NC

Benjamin of Halifax County , North Carolina, who made will in 1758 has not been documented as being the son of John of Nansemond County , Virginia There was a Benjamin in Nansemond County who was the son of John and Elizabeth Nevill (1689, John and Elizabeth gave land to Benj. Beale and wife Martha. John's son Benjamin mentioned in the deed that was witnessed by John Nevill, Jr. Source: American Origins by David B. Trimble, p. 126-need to verify with the original).

The Benjamin (b. ca 1660s?) in Nansemond County , Virginia would most likely have been too old to be the Benjamin who was buying and selling land over in the area of Edgecombe and Halifax County in North Carolina, beginning in 1746 when he bought 300 acres of land on Fishing Creek in Edgecombe (later Halifax) County , North Carolina. I suspect the North Carolina Hist. and Gen. Register, or the person who wrote the article, was using Boddie's Hist. So. Families, which contained the mistaken assumption related to Benj. Neville of Halifax County , North Carolina. So far, I have not seen any evidence of who the father of Benj. of Edgecombe/Halifax County , North Carolina was. While the possibility is strong that he is related to the Nansemond County , VA Nevilles, more work needs to be done to show the connection.

Based on land transactions of Benjamin's, some of which he also refers to in his will, it would seem that the Benj. who is first found in Halifax County in the above 1746 deed is the one who wrote the will in 1758 in Halifax County , North Carolina.

The following information taken from a copy of the original will which Lois Boesch sent me. It includes Benjamin's actual signature: In the will of Benjamin Neavil/Neville, 15/Nov/1758, Halifax County , North Carolina, he named son Benjamin Neavil, land he purchased of Smith, land in Granvill County held by Lord Granvill Deed, son Jease Neavil, daughter Elizabeth Neavil, wife Elizabet Neavil. Wife and Charles Drury named executors. Witnesses: John Marshall, Amy Marshall, and Robart Sanders. Recorded book No. 6, page 189, Halifax County , North Carolina. Jan Faulkner

Now as to Benjamin Neville wife Elizabeth son of John Neville was born in Nansemond County ,VA made his will Nov.15,1758,will was probated Sept.1759 in Halifax County, North Carolina. Benjamin and Elizabeth had Benjamin Jr. m.Sarah Nevill,Jesse m.Elizabeth Parke 1770 in Orange County ,nc,Benjamin and Elizabeth also had daughter Elizabeth. I found this information in a book "The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register Vol.1 #3,Abstracts of will" Trimble in American Origins, adds another Benjamin Nevill after the one found in Nansemond County in John and Elizabeth Nevill deed of 1689. Trimble shows a Benjamin, son of the Benj. in John and Eliz.'s deed, "born about 1705, probably in Nansemond County , Virginia He lived in Edgecombe (now Halifax) County North Carolina, on Feb. 11, 1746/7, when he bought 300 acres on Fishing Creek from John Hubbard..." Now, where did Trimble find information on a Benj. born in 1705? He must have had some reason for using 1705 as the date of birth, but How did he establish the date? And how did he know that Benj. born in 1705 was the son of the Benj. in the John and Eliz. Nevill deed of 1689. I can't find a source for this information. While Trimble's genealogy on Benjamin seems more plausible, is it partly speculation? It seems almost certain that the Isle of Wight/Nansemond County , Virginia Nevill line was directly connected to the Benj. Nevill line in North Carolina, not only because of the Nevill names, but also because of the other family names associated with them in both places: Sanders, Beale/Bell, and Marshall; however, a direct link has yet to be documented in print. jdfaulk@@hop-uky.campus.mci.net 9/9/97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Will Filed Halifax County, North Carolina/have copy

Will in Book 3 page 693

Mg Vol3;page 643 On File Will, Deed

Lived near Fishing Creek in Halifax County, North Carolina ++++++++++++++++++++++

The parent of Sarah was has you mentioned.Jesse Neville born 5 July,1759 in Fauquier County ,VA d.21 April,1819 in Halifax County , North Carolina I do not have who this Jesse m. or the dates on Sarah and Benjamin. I found this in a book "Halifax County , North Carolina Abstracts of Wills 1758-1824" If you find you find information to be different will you please advise. Thanks Corrine

There was a Benjamin Nevill, d. ca 1758 in Halifax County; in his will he mentions son, Benjamin, Jr.; son, Jesse; and daughter Elizabeth.

1786 state census, Halifax County lists two Benjamins.

1790 First census of U.S. lists two Benjamins in Halifax County.

One of these could be a son of Thomas; on Aug 8, 1788, Thomas Neville of Halifax County , North Carolina deeded 130 acres of land in Halifax County to son, Benjamin. Bk 17, p. 135.

1800 Index to Federal Census, shows 2 Benjamins in Halifax County, one age 26 to 45 and one over 45.

1810 Index lists a Benjamin Sr. and Benjamin Jr. in Halifax County.

1820 Index lists 3 Benjamins in Halifax County.

1830 Index lists Benjamin and Benjamin Jr. in Halifax County.

born about 1705, ,probably in Nansemond County Virginia He lived in Edgecombe (now Halifax) County North Carolina on 2-11-1746/7, when h bought 300 acres on Fishing Creed from John Hubbard for L21......

Jan Faulkner wonders where Trimble got the idea form the 1705 birth date for Benjamin. This (subject) Benjamin is an extra generation which Boddie does not list. Boddie takes Benjamin (1) to North Carolina and shows him as the person buying the above Fishing Creek land. Benjamin (1) would have been relatively old to start moving, buying and selling land again......

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Shackelford Miller, Jr. letter of July 17, 1959:
The oldest son, Welman Miller, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 9, 1890. While a young man he suffered two severe attacks of rheumatism which materially damaged his heart. He died from heart trouble, unmarried, in June, 1913.

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Religious affiliation (denomination): Presbyterian
Special distinctions or achievements or historical significance: Dean of the University of Louisville School of Law. Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1933-1937). President of the National Association of Broadcasters (1938) (had to express a formal regret for the misinterpretation of the Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds" broadcast). Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1936.

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The Kentucky Derby Festival Association, led by Louisville Mayor Neville Miller, set up its first week-long festival in 1935

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Shackelford Miller, Jr. letter of July 17, 1959:

The third son was Neville Miller who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 17, 1894. He graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1912, from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B. degree, 1916, and from Harvard Law School, LLB degree, 1920. He practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, together with my father and me, for a number of years when he accepted a full-time position as Dean of the Law School at the University of Louisville from December, 1933, until December, 1937. He then served as assistant to the president of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, until about July, 1938, when he became President of the National Association of Broadcasters and moved to Washington, D.C. where he held this position for about five years. He has continued to live in Washington, D.C. where he now practices law under the firm name of Miller & Schroeder, Munsey Building, Washington, D.C.

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Shackelford Miller, Jr. letter of July 17, 1959:
Neville Miller, who never married and I believe lieved in Corydon, Indiana, at least during the last part of his life. He suffered the loss of sight in one eye through an illness and was hit in the other eye with a golf ball in later years. He was, accordingly, materially handicapped in his activities.

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