Freeman Edwin Miller

Freeman Edwin Miller (May 19, 1864 – July 8, 1951) was an American poet, lawyer, newspaper editor, professor, and district court judge.

Early life Freeman Edwin Miller was born May 19, 1864, near Newtown, Indiana. Miller began teaching at the age of 16 while attending university courses. He received his Master of Arts in 1890, and relocated to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Miller was an English literature professor from 1894 to 1898 and 1915 to 1916 at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma, then called the Agricultural and Mechanical College. He chaired the English department beginning in 1894. and the Knickerbocker Press published Songs from the Southwest Country in 1898. He performed his poetry at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. His poem "The Builders" was read by the clerk at the Oklahoma state constitutional convention.

Legal career In 1889 Miller was elected district attorney for Texas' 31st Judicial District in Canadian, Texas. A proponent of alcohol prohibition, in 1892 Miller was president of the Stillwater branch of the Christian Temperance Union, and upon statehood helped to write the Oklahoma's Prohibition Enforcement Act. In 1932 Oklahoma Governor William H. Murray appointed him district judge for Oklahoma's 11th District Court, and he served until 1936. He died on July 8, 1951, at the age of 87.

Works Oklahoma and Other Poems C. W. Moulton. 1895. Songs from the Southwest Country The Knickerbocker Press. 1898. Oklahoma Sunshine The Advance Printing Company. 1905. The Founding of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Hinkel & Sons. 1928.