Elijah Miller

Miller was born on April 11, 1772. He was the son of Josiah Miller (1749–1817). He became a lawyer, and then a Judge in Cayuga County, New York. In 1817, he was a judge in Cattaraugus County, New York.{{cite book |last1=Chester |first1=Alden |last2=Williams |first2=Edwin Melvin |title=Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609-1925 |date=2005 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |isbn=9781584774242 |page=1284 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07IF9RMUR2IC&pg=PA1284 |accessdate=13 June 2019 |language=en}} In 1816, he helped found the Auburn State Prison with business partners John H. Beach and James Glover, since Miller was also an investor in local real estate.{{cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Robin |date=2024 |title=Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |page=12-13}}

William H. Seward, the future U.S. Secretary of State, was a junior partner in Miller's law practice.{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/william-h-seward |title=William H. Seward: Biography and Much More from Answers.com |access-date=July 8, 2007 |publisher=Answers.com }}

In 1800, Miller was married to Hannah Foote (1784–1811), who was born in Colchester in New London County, Connecticut. Together, they were the parents of:{{cite book |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Mary Mason |title=Emma Willard and Her Pupils: Or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872 |date=1898 |publisher=Mrs. R. Sage |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030634921/page/n111 82] |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924030634921 |accessdate=13 June 2019 |language=en}}

• Frances Adeline Miller (1805–1865), who married William H. Seward (1801–1872) in 1824. Miller granted permission for Seward to marry his daughter under the condition that they live in his South Street home with him.{{cite web |url=http://www.sewardhouse.org/biography/ |title=Seward House – Biography |access-date=July 8, 2007 |publisher=Seward House |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215200423/http://www.sewardhouse.org/biography/ |archive-date=February 15, 2009 }}Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) {{ISBN|0-684-82490-6}}
• Lazette Miller (1805–1875), who married Alvah Worden (1797–1856), a New York Assemblyman who was a delegate to the Constitutional convention.{{cite book |last1=Hough |first1=Franklin Benjamin |title=The New York Civil List: Containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time |date=1858 |publisher=Weed, Parsons and Co. |page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog/page/n160 134] |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog |accessdate=13 June 2019 |language=en}}

Miller died on November 13, 1851. After his death, he was the first person buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, a cemetery he was responsible for creating.{{cite book |last1=Rosell |first1=Lydia J. |title=Auburn's Fort Hill Cemetery |date=2001 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9780738509570 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3Ow93vwkAoC |accessdate=13 June 2019 |language=en}}

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