SENATOR WARNER MILLER,
known more familiarly as " Wnod-Ptilp Miller,
of Herkimer, New York, was horn Iu Oswego
county, that state, Aug. 12.1839, and is therefore
iu hisforty-sixth year. He graduated at fnion
College iu 1860, and then became a ’eaclicr in
1 the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, but when
the war broke out in 1861, be enlisted as a pri
vate in the Fifth Npw York Cavalry. He served
with conspicuous bravery In the Shenandoah
Valley, being promoted to sergeant-major and
lieutenant. At the battle of Winchester be xvas
taken a prisoner, but xvas finally "exchanged'’
after .he close of the rebellion. Mr. Miller en
gaged in farming end became the owner of ex
tensive paper mills, iu which enterprise be is
still engaged. He was a delegate to the National
Republican convention in Philadelphia in 1872,
and in 1871 was elected to the New York legisla
ture, serving two terms.
Mr. Miller then entered national politics and
was elected as a representative to the Forty-sixth
Congress, and was returned to the Forty-seventh.
Iu !BSi, when Conkling and Platt resigned their
scats in the Senate, Mr. Miller was chosen by the
New York Assembly to succeed Thomas C. Plait,
and look his seat Oct. 11, of that year. His tcniCof
office does hot expire until the 3.1 "lay of March,
1887.
