COL. R. K. MILLER

MILLER

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Date: 1/2/2008 at 16:34:34

IOWA STATE REGISTER, Friday, August 26, 1881

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE:

COL. R. K. MILLER

Now serving his first term as Treasurer,is a native of Indiana, and is 43 years old. Mr. Miller at 23 decided to go West, and reached Des Moines in 1861, selecting a farm in Saylor township, which he put to crop the same year. In July of that eventful year he put his name to Capt. Mitchell's enlistment roll, and in the succeeding February he re-enlisted for the war. His behavior at the siege of Corinth earned him his first commission. The succeeding three years were full of varied incident, illness, privation and advancement and in the summer of 1865 he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the 128th Indiana. He returned to Des Moines in 1866 and was married shortly after coming home. In 1869 he returned to his farm in Saylor. Afterward he became associated in business with Mr. R. C. Webb. As a citizen Col. Miller stands above reproach for honesty, morality and integrity. He is very unassuming, and aims never to encroach on others' rights while attending to his own affairs. In scholastic qualification the Colonel is amply qualified to discharge his official duties as well, and this the Republicans of Polk county certified to yesterday by nominating him by a unanimous vote for the important office of Treasurer.