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by lightning and the second conflagration was 

 believed to be the work of an incendiary. Ulti- 

 mately he disposed of all his Herefords, and 

 sold the Beecher property. 



In order to escape the cold winters of the 

 North, the last years of his life were spent in 

 Florida. An indefatigable worker always, his 

 energies were by no means confined to looking 

 after his farm and the breeding of cattle. He 

 became the mainstay of the church at Beecher 

 and of its pastor at. a time when the little com- 

 munity was too poor to provide for their own 



A FARM SALE. 



Movable amphitheater. Weavergrace Farm of T. F. B. 

 Sotham. 



religious requirements. But his religious activ- 

 ities did not consist solely in giving liberal 

 financial support, for both in Chicago and 

 Beecher he was ever a regular and earnest Sun- 

 day school teacher. No stress of weather or bad- 

 ness of roads sufficed to keep him and his 

 faithful wife whom he always found an able 

 seconder in all his plans from his work in 

 connection with the church. He contributed 

 largely to the agricultural press, and eventually 

 himself established a printing office and ran a 

 newspaper mainly in the interest of Herefords 

 for some years, and to which he subsequently 

 added a monthly publication. It was also at 

 Beecher, under his own editorship, much of the 

 work being done by his own hands, that he 

 started the "American Herd Book of Hereford 

 Cattle," and continued until the work became 

 too large to be carried on by private enterprise, 

 and was therefore transferred to the manage- 

 ment of the society in Chicago. 



Altogether he was a fine specimen of the 

 type of men who have made the United States 

 the great and prosperous and progressive nation 

 that it is to-day. A man of strong will and 

 untiring energy, he put his hand to many 



things, and to none without some measure of 

 success. At an age when most men are content 

 to rest, he was still strenuously working, and 

 the last work of his life, a task which he had 

 only just completed when he met with his fatal 

 accident, was to write a "History of Hereford 

 Cattle," thus showing that his old interest in 

 the "white faces" had not abated. Of him it 

 may truly be said, as Chas. Dickens once said 

 of himself, "that he never put one hand to 

 anything, on which he could not throw his 

 whole self." Hereford (Eng.) Times. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Unanimously adopted by a rising vote of 

 the American Hereford Cattle* Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation at Chicago, December 5, 1901 : 



WHEREAS, Through the mysterious working 

 of a Divine Providence, one of the most promi- 

 nent and enterprising of the pioneer members 

 of this association, Mr. T. L. Miller, has been 

 summoned to other fields; therefore, be it re- 

 solved by this association, in Annual Conven- 

 tion assembled : 



First. That we freely and unhesitatingly 

 accord to him the position of originator and 

 leader in the propaganda of the Hereford in 

 America. 



Second. That to his enterprise and courage 

 is largely due the position the Herefords have 

 attained in this country. 



Third. That as a breeder of Herefords and 

 a citizen, we commend him and deplore his 

 loss. 



Fourth. That we condole with his family 

 in their bereavement and sympathize with them 

 in their affliction. 



Fifth. That this association appropriate 

 the sum of $500 to ereet a monument as a 

 tribute to his memory. 



Sixth. That these resolutions be spread 

 upon the minutes of this meeting. 



CHARLES GUDGELL, 

 W. S. VAN NATTA, 

 T. F. B. SOTHAM, 



Committee. 



Chicago, 111., December 5, 1901. 



DEATH OF T. L. MILLER. 



Mr. T. L. Miller died on Thursday, March 

 15, 1900, at De Funiak Springs, Fla., at the 

 ripe age of 83 years. To the cattle breeding 

 world he was universally known as T. L. Miller, 

 of Beecher, 111., and his Highland Stock Farm 

 was the Mecca of all admirers of Hereford 

 cattle for manv vears. 



