OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 299 
A HUSBANDMAN FROM OXFORD 
116. Another representative of the Aberdeenshire Miller family 
that played so important a role in the Shorthorn and Clydesdale 
history during the formative days of Canadian agriculture was 
Mr. WILLIAM MILLER, nephew of Georce MILLER of Markham, 
Ontario, and brother of Mr. Joun Mitier (114). Mr. Miier’s 
father was also named WituiaM MILLER, and he was partner 
with Grorce MILLER in some of the early enterprises which intro- 
duced Scotch Shorthorns from the north of Caledon. WILLIAM 
MIL_eR, Jk., was born in 1834 near Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, 
Scotland. He was educated in the common schools of Canada 
and at Oxford University, gaining a training that gave him a 
most facile expression in later life. The rudiments of livestock 
were learned on his father’s farm, near Pickering, Ontario, to 
which place he came in 1839. During the period extending from 
1854 to 1861, numerous importations were made into Canada 
from the herd of RoBerT Syme of Redkirk, Dumfrieshire, by 
GeorcE and Wituiam MILuer. With the first lot Mr. MILLER 
brought over that showyard veteran, Simon BeEattiz. The original 
selections in large part were made by WILLIAM MILLER, Jr., then 
a young man making his first tour of the old country herds and 
flocks. Mr. MILLer selected the bull Redkirk 15138, a fine roan 
of medium size that was shown by Mr. Joun MILLER, and later 
sold into New York. In the spring of 1869, Mr. Witt1am MILLER 
imported the grand roan show heifer Ruberta, bred by the 
Messrs. GARNE of Broadmoor, Gloucestershire. This heifer was 
fed out for show by JoHN and Witiiam MILLER and successfully 
exhibited previous to being sold to M. H. Cocurane at Hillhurst. 
In 1881 he undertook the management of a farm owned by a 
Mr. Simpson, collector of customs in Montreal, but in 1884 went 
to Hillhurst. In the fall of 1886, Mr. LutHer Apams, Boston, 
Mass., secured a large farm at Storm Lake, Iowa, and commis- 
sioned WiLLIAM MILLER to stock it, and to secure a shipment of 
