Mar 262011
pmiller
Mar 262011
Our grandfather, born in 1882. He looks to be about 40 years old here so we guess this to be from about 1922. He died August 18, 1945 in Dallas.
For more details, see these biographical notes.
Mar 252011
Santa Monica, California, about 1914.
Mar 252011
Frederick "Poppy" Miller (left), his brother Jack, and Philip A. L. Miller, Jr. (right). Philip says the photo was taken in the 1980s outside the Boston Club on Canal Street in New Orleans, where Poppy and Jack were members, as were earlier generations of Millers. Photographs were not allowed inside the Club. Philip said that the elderly waiter, who took the photo, was suitably excited when Philip got introduced as a "Miller".
The Boston Club was where Thomas Marshall Miller (1847-1920) routinely lost much of what he had, playing poker, around the turn of the last century. Philip said the gambling was so bad that one year his father had to drop out of Tulane law school because TMM had lost so much money.
Mar 242011
Picture found at 2820 Throckmorton in Dallas. Identities uncertain. EMM thinks it might be her father and herself. Her father’s name was Zeke Shumway–Eula and Zeke divorced when EMM was very young. EMM met Zeke once and then, at age 20, she attended his funeral. "My mother made me go to the funeral", she says. EMM played the piano at the funeral.
Mar 242011
Mary Ware, sister of Letitia Dabney Miller, wrote several books, including A New World through Old Eyes. Excerpts from the book are available in three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 155 Kbytes plus pictures),
PDF (best for printing, 474 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (305 Kbytes).
Mar 232011
Picture found at 2820 Throckmorton. Blake was her second husband–he adopted EMM.
