In "Times of Long Ago", Franklin Gorin stated that Henry Miller was one of the earliest settlers in Barren Co after organization, arriving in 1799. His son, Dr. Henry Miller is the subject of the following biography. The biography appeared in "Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society, Twentieth Annual Session, Held at Henderson, KY., April, 1875. Published in Louisville by the John P. Morton and Company, 1875. Page 38-43. I am going to share this lengthy article with the readers as I believe some on the lists might be interested. This is captioned "Report of the Committee on Necrology" DR. HENRY MILLER. In noticing the death of Dr. Henry Miller the American Practitioner for March, 1874, contained the following remarks: "Dr. Miller has for many years held the foremost place among the obstertricians of Kentucky and a high rank among those in America noted for their skill in this line of our profession, having distinguished himself as much by his writings on obstetric medicine as by his ability as a teacher and practitioner. He was permitted to devote more than half a century laboriously to the practice of medicine, and during much of the larger portion of that time his mind and studies were directed specially to the department of it in which he achieved his great reputation. At the period of his death he was the oldest physician in Louisville actively engaged in practice. Of all those whom he found in the field when he came to the city forty years ago he leaves but one behind him fit for active duty, and he survived all but one of his earliest colleagues - those associated with him in founding the medical school in which he passed the most profitable years of his life. He was one of the connecting links, fast disappearing, between the present generation of physicians and the race which shaped medicine in the backwoods of Kentucky and organized medical education in the West." Henry Miller was born in Glasgow, Ky., on the 1st of November, 1800, beginning life with the nineteenth century. His father, Henry Miller was one of the three original settlers of Glasgow. Henry exhibited very early an aptness to learn, which was improved by the best schools within his reach, and he acquired a competent knowledge of the Latin, as well as a very thorough acquaintance with his own language; and also studied logic, geometry, metaphysics, and the branches of natural science taught in the higher seminaries of that day. He says of himself, in the preface to the first edition of his Obstetrics: "The author's education was not acquired in academic halls, but in the primitive school-houses of his native state and upon the ample sward, shaded by forest-trees, appurtenant thereunto. So that you see he was reared after the fashion of Socrates - imbibing knowledge in the school-house under the shade of trees, and not unfrequently perched upon their boughs." Choosing medicine as the profession of his life, he entered upon the study when only seventeen years old, under the tuition of Drs. Bainbridge and Gist in his native village. That year a medical school was opened in Kentucky with every promise of success. The medical department of Transylvania University was organized in 1817 with professors of signal ability. But young Miller deemed it more profitable to stay at home in the shop of his preceptors, compounding medicines, pulling teeth, bleeding, putting up prescriptions, and attending to similar offices, to attending lectures, and so permitted the first course in the school to pass by unimproved. To be continued next week. Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky