At the meeting of the American Medical Association held in Louisville in May, 1859, Dr. Miller was elected president of that body, it being the custom of the association to elect to its highest office a physician, of the place where it was in session. Dr. Miller was a clear, ready, forcible writer. As a practitioneer he was discriminating and reliable, commanding the confidence of his professional brethren in quite as eminent a degree as he had that of the public. His opinions were formed slowly, but once made up they were felt by all to be trustworthy. Withal, he was a progressive man, and prompt to seize upon all the improvements made in the healing art.... As a lecturer Dr. Miller rose to distinction in spite of the greatest natural disadvantages. His voice was not good, and his delivery was nearly as bad as it could be. It was painful to listen to him, until one had grown accustomed to his manner, so great was his difficulty of utterance; and yet he was a successful teacher. The slowness with which he was obliged to proceed enabled his pupils to take in all his mater, and his thorough mastery of his subject gave weight to his instructions. It was his happy constitution of mind to become so engrossed by the matter of his discourse that the drowsiness of his audience or even disorders in his lecture-room were unnoticed, and his good-nature contributed to the popularity which he gained by the sound and practical character of his lectures. He had both humor and imagination, and could enliven his dry prelections by sallies of wit when his subject invited; but the quality of mind to which he owed his influence among men, and his reputation as a teacher and practitioner, was his sound, vigorous understanding. About a year before he died Dr. Miller professed religion and united himself to the First Presbyterian Church in Louisville. When he stood up before the congregation to make a public profession of his faith in Christ one of his granddaughters, the child of his oldest son, Dr. William Miller, who was lost to him during the War of the States, stood up by his side and entered the church with him. His death occurred at his residence in Louisville on Sunday, the 8th of February, 1874, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. The physicians of the city, his colleagues in the Louisville, and the medical faculty of the University of Louisville adopted resolutions respectful to the memory of the deceased. Until within a few weeks of his death he was still devoting himself as far as he had strength to his professional work, and only ceased it when increasing infirmities confined him to his house. The disease which terminated his valuable life was Bright's disease of the kidney, which had been for more than a year insidiously undermining his fine constitution. 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