John D. Miller

John Donnell Miller (December 2, 1840 – March 18, 1898) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from February 25, 1891, to January 2, 1893.

Biography John Miller was born in Clarksburg, Indiana to George Miller (originally from Western Virginia) and Margaret Jane Miller (née Donnell, born near Kingston, Indiana).

In 1859, Miller began attending Hanover College, but left school in 1861 to enlist following the outbreak of the Civil War. Part of Company G of the 7th Indiana Infantry Regiment, which was sent to fight in Virginia and West Virginia. Miller reportedly served in twenty battles as a private (including many famous battles such as the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Battle of the Wilderness, and Gettysburg) and (from 1862 to 1864) as a clerk to an adjutant.

After the end of the war, Miller studied law at the firm of Overstreet & Hunter in Franklin. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and moved to Greensburg. From 1868 to 1873, he ran a private law practice in Greensburg in partnership with Colonel Frank E. Gavin. Miller served as Greensburg's City Clerk from 1866 to 1867 and City Attorney in 1871. In 1872, Miller was elected to represent Decatur and Rush counties in the General Assembly. Miller was a Republican.

Miller married Mary Jane Stevens in Greensburg in 1869. Mary died in 1891. They had three children together, all daughters.

In 1894, he would be elected judge of Indiana's 8th Circuit Court, a position he would hold until he died in 1898.