Dr. Charles Zollman MILLER, son of Horatio Thompson and Elizabeth (ZOLLMAN) MILLER, was born June 4, 1876, Ringgold County, Iowa, and spent all of his early life, in Ringgold County. In June 1900, he was graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Missouri, and located for his practice, soon after, at Huntsville, Alabama, where he remained until his death, which occurred October 10, 1901, at Huntsville, after a six weeks' illness, with typhoid fever, in the 26th year of his age. His death is sad, not only in the ending of a happy and worthy existence, or in the grief bro't to his relatives and friends, but in the bright hopes cut down. He was shortly to have returned to the north, and gone into partnership with his brother at Centerville. He was also to have been married,in the month in which his death occurred, to Miss Beatrice HARRISON, an estimable young lady of Huntsville, a cousin of the late President HARRISON. Miss HARRISON, and her sister, Mrs. Carrie MARTIN, and ther bro'-in-law, P. R. HUNT, accompanied the remains to his home, at Redding [Iowa], with his father, H. T. MILLER, and his brother-in-law, R[ichard] J. LOUTZENHISER, and his brother, Dr. Wm. B. MILLER, of Centerville, who attended him in his last illness.

Dr. MILLER came of sturdy Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock. He was robust in health, vigorous in intellect, full of energy that compels success, and morally pure. He had long been spiritually earnest. When he became a Christian, he did so, fully, and performed all his Christian duties; leading the church prayer meeting, to the profit of older Christians. During four long weeks, he looked death in the face, and was not afraid. He put all aside, when God called him. At Kirksville, he was a never-failing attendent on church, and Sabbath school. Locating in Huntsville, he united with the Presbyterian church. His pastor paid high tribute to him, saying in part: "Since the day he came among us, he has conducted himself as a moral, clean, studious, manly, man. Tho' one thousand miles from home, he found no time to sow wild oats. Manhood was his birthright, and he did not sell it for a mess of pottage. A northern man by birth, he did not run against the prejudices of his southern neighbors. He was too manly for such pettiness. Nor did he make war upon the Old School physicians, some of whom were the most sincere mourners at his bier. What was the cause of the popular interest so marked in the young stranger? It was the recognition of the worth of character. We are a busy people but we have time to stand uncovered before a finished life."

SOURCES:RAILEY, Clementine Brown. History of the House of Ochiltree of Ayrshire, Scotland, Pp. 173-74. Bulletin Printing Co. Sterling, Kansas. 1936.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2009