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George Macculloch Miller
Born(1832-05-04)May 4, 1832
DiedNovember 14, 1917(1917-11-14) (aged 85)
EducationBurlington College
Alma materHarvard Law School
SpouseElizabeth Odgen Hoffman
Children6
Parent(s)Jacob W. Miller
Mary Louisa Macculloch
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George Macculloch Miller (May 4, 1832 – November 14, 1917), was a prominent lawyer and secretary of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.[1]

Early life[edit]

Portrait of Miller, 1855

George Macculloch Miller was born in 1832 in Morristown, New Jersey. He was a son of politician Jacob W. Miller and Mary Louisa Macculloch.[2] His father and J. Pierpont Morgan were directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.[3] He graduated from the Burlington College in New Jersey in 1850 and later Harvard Law School.[2]

Career[edit]

George Macculloch Miller and several others began a series of charitable collections among churches and business groups in as early as 1882.[4] In 1893, a committee was appointed "to take steps to have Hospital Saturday and Sunday observed throughout the United States." Members of the committee included Miller, Charles Lanier, Morris K.Jesup, Samuel D. Babcock, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jesse Seligman, Jacob H. Schiff, and Charles Stewart Smith.[5] The goal of this organization was to have a second collection in churches across the United States and have the money disbursed to hospitals for assistance to indigents. This developed into a larger organization eventually becoming the United Hospital Fund.

Personal life[edit]

He married Elizabeth Odgen Hoffman. She was the daughter of Lindley Murray Hoffman and Susan Ogden. Together they had:

He died on November 14, 1917, at his home, 270 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.[2]

Descendants[edit]

His grandson, George Macculloch Miller III (d. 1972)[11] married Flora Payne WhitneyinCairo, Egypt in 1927.[6][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 370 (footnote 14). ISBN 978-0-231-07850-4. OCLC 37843816.
  • ^ a b c "George M. Miller Dead at 85 Years. Prominent Corporation Lawyer Was Secretary of Cathedral of St. John the Divine". The New York Times. November 15, 1917. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
  • ^ "New-Haven and Hartford". The New York Times, October 20, 1892; October 19, 1893
  • ^ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/12/29/103432377.pdf "Co-operative Hospital work" The New York Times December 29, 1882
  • ^ "Hospital Saturday and Sunday". The New York Times, Nov. 21, 1893
  • ^ a b "Mrs. Tower to Wed in Cairo Today – Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney to Marry G. MacCulloch Miller". The New York Times. February 24, 1927. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  • ^ "Mrs. W. B. McVicar". The New York Times. November 1, 1943. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  • ^ "Port Chester A Bus Hub – Leverett S. Miller Tells of Plans to Supplant Trolleys". The New York Times. 3 April 1927. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  • ^ "Obituary 4 -- No Title". The New York Times. June 4, 1966. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  • ^ "What Is Doing In Society". The New York Times. 17 June 1902. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  • ^ "George M. Miller, Artist, Dies at 85". The New York Times. September 12, 1972. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  • ^ Biddle, Flora Miller (January 3, 2017). The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir. Skyhorse. ISBN 978-1-62872-809-5. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
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