Robert Hugh Miller

{{short description|American publisher}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Hugh Miller

| image = Robert Hugh Miller, Founder of the Liberty Tribune.jpg

| alt = Portrait of Miller in 1877

| caption = Miller portrayed in 1877

| birth_date = {{birth date|1826|11|27}}

| birth_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|02|14|1826|11|27}}

| death_place = Liberty, Missouri, U.S.

| resting_place = Fairview Cemetery, Liberty, Missouri

| occupation = Publisher, journalist, editor

| party = Whig

| spouse = {{ubl

| {{marriage|Enfield "Enna" F. Peters|1846|1867|end=died}}

| {{marriage|Louise "Lulu" Clark Wilson|1871|1911}}

}}

| children = 10

}}

Robert Hugh Miller (November 27, 1826 – February 14, 1911), founder and publisher of the Liberty Tribune, one of the oldest newspapers of continuous publication west of the Mississippi, was born in Richmond, Virginia on November 27, 1826.{{cite book|title=The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men. Missouri Vol. 2|date=1878|publisher=United States Biographical Publishing Company|location=New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City|pages=321–322}} Miller established the Tribune in 1846 and edited it until 1886.{{cite book|title=Portrait and Biographical Record of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton and Linn Counties, Missouri|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitbiograph13chap|date=1893|publisher=Chapman Bros.|location=Chicago|pages=[https://archive.org/details/portraitbiograph13chap/page/184 184]–185}}

His family migrated from Virginia to Kentucky when he was six, and to Missouri when he was 12. As a teenager, he was apprenticed, first to the Columbia Patriot, and later to the Missouri Statesman. Encouraged by William Jewell of Columbia, Miller moved to Liberty, Missouri, where he founded the Tribune, which eventually became profitable.{{cite journal|last1=Potts|first1=Louis W.|title=Recollections and Reconstruction in Clay County, Missouri, 1870|journal=Kawsmouth, A Journal of Regional History|date=Summer–Autumn 2002|volume= 4|issue=1|page=70}}{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Walter|title=A History of Northwest Missouri, Vol. III|date=1915|publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company|location=Chicago, New York|pages=1316–1320}}