HENRY COOPER (nee HENRY EDGAR) MILLER (1873-1961) Henry Cooper Miller was born on October 28, 1873, in Hardin County, Kentucky. Reared on a farm four miles southwest of Glendale, he was christened in the Gilead Baptist Church near Glendale, Kentucky. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Kenyon College,
Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1898. After serving a term as County School Superintendent he represented Hardin County in the 1902 General Assembly. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the Bowling Green State Normal School and owned an insurance agency in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He married Lucy Colston Cloyd on October 27, 1908. They lived in Enid, Oklahoma, commencing in 1906, before moving to Huron, South Dakota, where he managed a hotel and their daughter, Alice Josephine, was born on August 5, 1914. The family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where their son, John Howard, was born on October 13, 1916. (John Howard who died in 2004 married Nancy Poindexter, 1922-2011). Henry worked in the insurance business until his retirement. Henry died on July 28, 1961, and he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City along with his wife, Lucy Cloyd Miller who died December 4, 1960.
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