Unity Lodge No. 146

Virginia Biography: Samuel Rolfe Millar

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume 5
Samuel Rolfe Millar
Samuel Rolfe Millar
Samuel Rolfe Millar. The Millar family is an old one in Virginia, and has given members to answer every call of patriotism or duty, Mr. Millar owning revolutionary descent through the service of his ancestors in that conflict. The Millar family settled near Front Royal in 1740, on land which Colonel Millar now owns. He is a grandson of Isaac Millar and a son of Samuel Richardson Millar, his father born at Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, May 31, 1817, died October 31, 1861. Samuel R. Millar was an attorney; married Susan Randolph, born in Cumberland county, Virginia, September 2, 1821, died March 9, 1882, daughter of General Thomas Beverly Randolph. Among the children of Samuel R. and Susan (Randolph) Millar was Samuel Rolfe, of whom further. Samuel Rolfe Millar was born in Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, May 21, 1857, and there attended the public schools. He afterward matriculated at Griswold College, Davenport, Iowa, and was there graduated. Journeying abroad, he there pursued advanced studies and in 1880 received a Ph. D. from the University of Heidelberg. His German residence and knowledge of the tongue and customs of that country were invaluable to him in his later incumbency of the consulship to Leipsic, Germany, and office to which he was appointed in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland, serving so until 1890. IN the latter year he returned to the United States. In his early life Mr. Millar became familiar with farm life, and at that time formed a liking for such pursuits that has never deserted him, although for long extended periods he has found it impossible to gratify his desires in that direction. He is now the owner of much land in the vicinity of his home, and as far as his journalistic duties will permit, gives his farms his personal attention. It is in every way probable that the method Mr. Millar would prefer would be to don overalls and to follow the season through, from plowing time to harvest, filling an active part in the cultivation of his lands, but duty decrees otherwise. He is lieutenant-colonel of the Second Virginia Regiment, National Guards, and is aide-de-camp of Governor Stuart; is president of the Front Royal Horse Show Association, and of the Front Royal Board of Trade, and president of the Warren Sentinel Publishing Company. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine, his lodge being Unity, No. 147, Free and Accepted Masons. His political allegiance is Democratic, and he is a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. Millar married, October 2, 1882, Bertha Riedel, born in Heidelbrg, Germany, December 25, 1857, daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Krahm) Riedel. Children of Samuel ROlfe and Bertha (Riedel) Millar: Susan Bertha, born May 1, 1884; Florence Millar, born in Leipsic, July 12, 1887; Samuel Rolfe, Jr., born in Leipsic, Germany, February 12, 1889, B. A. and B. L., Washington and Lee University; Bertha, born August 5, 1893. His daughters are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames, securing membership through the services of their ancestors in the Indian and Revolutionary wars.
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In the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume 5 from 1915, we find a member of Unity Lodge No. 146 – Samuel Rolfe Millar, who was the president of the Warren Sentinel Publishing Company, Front Royal Board of Trade, and Front Royal Horse Show Association.

BookEncyclopedia of Virginia Biography
VolumeV
PublisherLewis Historical Publishing Company, New York
Published1915
Pages811, photo
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