Miller, Joseph T. (of Urbana, IL)

Born: 1830-02-05 Butler County, Ohio

Died: 1912-11-12 Canton, Ohio

Flourished: 1853 to 1911 Urbana, Illinois

Joseph T. Miller, physician, moved with his family from Ohio to Indiana as a child and was raised on the family farm. He was educated at local schools then briefly studied at Wabash College. Miller moved to Urbana in 1853, and following the completion of his medical education at Rush Medical College in the academic year of 1856 to 1857, enjoyed a long career as a physician in that city. In 1859 he was one of the organizers of the Champaign County Medical Society. During the Civil War Miller served as a surgeon in the Sixtieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry until poor health forced him to retire from the role. He subsequently served as examining surgeon for the Seventh Illinois District of the Board of Recruitment. In politics, Miller was a Republican. He married Charlotte V. Radebaugh in 1862 and the pair had two children. At the time of his death Miller was a member of a Universalist church.

Charles B. Johnson, Medicine in Champaign County: A Historical Sketch (Champaign, IL: Gazette Press, 1909), 35-36, 53, 76; Seventeenth Triennial Catalogue of the Rush Medical College (Chicago: Rogers & Wells, [1895]), 24; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Fountain County, IN, 12; Urbana Union (IL), 14 January 1858, 4:7; 22 July 1858, 2:4; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Urbana, Champaign County, IL, 600; The Ford County Journal (Paxton, IL), 26 April 1860, 2:4; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Champaign County, 2 April 1862, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Champaign Daily Gazette (IL), 12 November 1912, 1:7; 14 November 1912, 1:4; The Champaign Daily News (IL), 13 November 1912, 7:3; Gravestone, Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, IL.