The World Wide Webb Miller
Description:
.0183a: typed letter to Alton Miller, Niles, MI, from Hugh Baillie, president of United Press Associations, enclosing Webb's last story.
.0183b: envelope to Alton MIller
.0183c: New York World—Telegram with headline: "Churchill takes war command;/M.P.'s shout down Chamberlain," by Webb Miller
Date:
1940, May
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—0012.0183a—c
Object Name:
Newspaper Article
People:
Miller, Webb
Search Terms:
World War II
Webb MIller
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