Homer A. MILLER

MILLER, WHITLOCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/18/2015 at 15:43:04

November 13, 1860 --- September 15, 1932

Homer A. Miller was born in La Porte, Indiana, November 13, 1860, and died in Beverly Hills, California, September 15, 1932. His parents were Benjamin F. and Rebecca (Whitlock) Miller. The family removed to Webster City, Iowa, in 1867 where the father established the first bank in that town. Homer passed through the public schools there, read law two years in the office of Wesley Martin, but gave up its further study and entered his father's bank. In 1882 be established a private bank at Eagle Grove under the name of B. F. Miller & Son. In 1886 it was changed to the First National Bank of Eagle Grove with Homer A. Miller as president. It was claimed he was the youngest national bank president in the United States. He remained its president until 1899, but from 1893 to 1899 he was also bank examiner under State Auditor McCarthy. In 1899 he removed to Des Moines and became cashier of the Des Moines Savings Bank. In 1907 it was taken over by the Iowa National Bank and not long thereafter Mr. Miller became its president. In 1917 the Iowa National also took over the Citizens National Bank. Mr. Miller remained president of the Iowa National until his retirement in 1928 when he removed to California. He was president of the State Banker's Association in 1903. He had interests in several other banks in the state, and had more than a state reputation as an able banker. He was a director of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, of the Northwest Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, was financially interested in several other business enterprises in Des Moines and was one of its foremost citizens. He was a Republican in politics and affiliated with the Unitarian church.

"Homer A. Miller." The Annals of Iowa 18 (1933), 638-639.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol18/iss8/13