The World Wide Webb Miller
Description:
Correspondence to Mrs. Miller:
Note from 'Barney' at United Press Associations re messges and letters they have received.
Letter to Mrs. Miller from G.B. Parker, Scripps—Howard Newspapers.
Letter to Mrs. Miller from Kent State University re scholarship created for Kenneth in honor of his father.
Letters to Mrs. Marie Miller from Ralph H.Turner and United Press Assns.
Letter to Hugh Baillie from Thos.Garren describing Webb's funeral near Dowagiac.
Date:
1940
Notes:
Webb Miller was born in 1891 in Sumnerville/Pokagon, graduated from Dowagiac High School around 1910, and went on to become a journalist in Chicago. He covered the Pancho Villa insurrection at the Mexican border in 1915 and landed a job at the United Press. He stayed with UP and covered World War I, Gandhi, Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, and came to head UP Europe. He died a mysterious death in 1940.
The collection came from the donor's niece, who received the collection from Webb Miller's daughter—in—law Helene MIller.
Object ID:
2007—0012.0198
Object Name:
Correspondence
People:
Miller, Webb
Search Terms:
Webb MIller
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