Merton L. Miller
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About Merton L. Miller
Lived 1870 – 1953 (aged 82–83).
Merton Leland Miller was a professor of the University of Chicago who also served as the acting chief of the Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands. He is the one who discovered and studied the burial jars found on the island of Camiguin in 1910.
Education Graduated from Colby College in 1890 and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1897.
Career Acting Chief of The Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands. President of the Mindanao Estates Co., a hemp farm organized in Manila, Philippines, in 1904. Involved in tax litigation in 1942 regarding dividends received from the Balatoc Mining Company (now Benguet Corporation).
Published works The Non-Christian people of Ambos Camarines, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1911 The burial mounds of Camiguin Island, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1911 The Mangyans of Mindoro, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1912
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Who was Merton L. Miller?
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When was Merton L. Miller born?
Merton L. Miller was born in 1870 in Fairfield.
When did Merton L. Miller die?
Merton L. Miller died on 25 January 1953.
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