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The Suprême Court of Wisconsin.

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ara campaign of 1814. The family, at one time holding a large landed estate, were greatly reduced in circumstances by the depression and pecuniary disaster following the war. The subject of this sketch was the ANDREW GALBRAITH MILLER, of Penn sylvania, was appointed to succeed Judge eldest of ten children. After primary in Frazer, by President Van Buren, November struction in the best schools then available, he entered an academy in 1813. In 1815 8th, 1838. He was born at Carlisle, Cum berland County, Pennsylvania, September he was in Dickinson College, Carlisle; after

wards he studied at 1 8, 180 1, of Scotch Washington College, Presbyterian stock. at Washington, Penn His mother's ances sylvania, and gradu tors in this country ated thence with came from England, honors in 1819. The and located in Penn's same year he began settlement at Phila the study of law in delphia. The Millers the office of Andrew settled in Pennsyl Caruthers, Esq., a vania, the grandfather lawyer of high pro when young purchas fessional character ing a large tract from and personal worth. William Penn, the In 1822, Miller was proprietary governor. admitted to the bar, The maternal grand having resolved never father, Andrew Galto hold an office of braith, on coming of profit outside of his age, purchased a tract profession. During of land in Cumber sixteen years he prac land County, then ticed law in Cumber still on the border. land County. His Upon hearing of the father dying about the Declaration of Inde time he came to the pendence, Andrew ANDRF.W C. MILLER. bar, young Miller Galbraith promptly raised a company, and was commissioned became virtually the head of the family. major of his regiment. He participated in In 1827 he married Caroline E. Kurtz, the gallant defense of Fort Washington on daughter of Benjamin Kurtz, of Harrisburg, the Hudson, November 16, 1776, and being a gentleman descended from one of the taken prisoner, was confined in the prison founders of the Lutheran Church in Amer ships in New York Harbor. The horrors of ica. When twenty-one years of age, upon this confinement fastened upon him a disease his admission to the bar, he became part of which he died soon after peace was de ner with his preceptor. He subsequently removed to Gettysburg, and there practiced clared. The paternal ancestors of Judge Miller his profession until his appointment to the also shared in the perils and honors of the vacant judgeship in Wisconsin. On receiving the appointment, he came Revolution. His father was an officer of militia in the arduous, if not glorious, Niag- to Wisconsin, and, on the lOthdayofDe

defects in the indictment. On a second trial he was acquitted, and lived many years afterwards.