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prominent citizens. He also promoted the Arcadia Valley as a summer resort. He married Miss
Salena Ringo in 1892. Louis Miller died October 21, 1933, in Arcadia; his wife died April 4,
1943, in Ironton, Missouri.
The collection includes three publications promoting tourism in the Arcadia Valley in the
early 1900s; a typescript history of Arcadia; a scrapbook; newspaper clippings relating to Louis
Miller, his family, and Arcadia; and several architectural drawings.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Louis Miller Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1047
Miller, Madison (1811-1896).
Papers, 1831-1895. 1 box
Madison Miller was born February 6, 1811, in Mercer, Pennsylvania. He came to St. Louis in
the 1820s. He served in the Mexican War and in the Missouri state legislature. During the Civil
War he served in the 1st Missouri Infantry (3 months) and the 1st Missouri Light Artillery in
1861. In January 1862 he was promoted to colonel of the 18th Missouri Infantry. He was
captured at the Battle of Shiloh and eventually exchanged, and later served in the 50th Missouri
Infantry. He was brevetted brigadier general in 1865 for gallantry at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.
He died February 27, 1896, in St. Louis.
This collection contains data on early railroads, including the Atchison and St. Joseph
Railroad Co., the Pacific Railroad Co., and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Co.;
material on the Civil War, including Miller's diary, April 6, 1862, and clippings about the Battle
of Shiloh; deeds and indentures for land in Carondelet, Missouri, and Randolph and Marion
Counties, Illinois, including a title held by the Guion family; material regarding the city of
Carondelet; records regarding Company E, 18th Missouri Infantry; an agreement of the Illinois
and Missouri Coal Company; some minor items relating to Missouri state politics, including data
on the Missouri legislature. Also includes a plan for election purposes sent to Miller by Lincoln.
Documents and letters signed by Frank P. Blair, John C. Dent, G.M. Dodge, Thomas C. Fletcher,
Thomas Ford, J.C. Fremont, H.R. Gamble, F.D. Grant, U.S. Grant, Willard P. Hall, Andrew
Jackson, John A. Logan, William M. McPherson, Franklin Pierce, E.C. Pike, Edwin M. Stanton,
William Taussig, G.R. Taylor, James B. Walsh.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Madison Miller Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1048
Miller, Monroe Joshua (1830-1866).
Papers, 1862-1866. 8 folders (approximately 100 items); 1 volume
Monroe Joshua Miller was born September 19, 1830, in Rowan County, North Carolina. On
July 28, 1863, he married Mary Virlinda Wright in Benton, Franklin County, Illinois. In
September 1862 he was mustered into the 117th Illinois Infantry (Union) at Camp Butler,
Springfield, Illinois, and served with this unit until the close of the war. He was the printer and
publisher of the Lebanon (Illinois) Republic during and immediately after his army service. He
died March 18, 1866, of a lung ailment that developed during the war.
Papers include correspondence of Monroe Joshua Miller to his wife, Linda, in Lebanon,
Illinois, and diaries of Monroe Miller. Contains accounts of the movement and activity of the
regiment in Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama. Includes descriptions of
activities in and around Fort Pickering and Memphis; the Meridian, Mississippi, Campaign; the
Red River Campaign of 1864, mostly written while on board the steamboat Thomas E. Tutt; the