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native home, when he again resumed a mercantile life. Mr.
Miller was elected school commissioner for Petersville district
when that office was elective, and held it until the law was
repealed and made appointive by the judges. He was appointed
postmaster at Knoxville, and served four years under President
Harrison's administration. Mr. Miller married Miss Mann, of
Virginia, in 1866. He is a member of the Lutheran Church,
being a member of the church council, and frequently repre-
sented the charge in the Maryland Synod, and has often
represented the Maryland Synod in the General Synod of the
United States at its conventions held in Carthage, Illinois, Omaha,
Nebraska, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland.
Mr. Miller is a prominent Mason. He was a member of the
legislature of 1874 from Frederick county.

He is a member of the committee on claims, on education, on
. railroads and canals.

John R. Rouzer.

John R. Rouzer, Republican, was born near Thurmont, form-
erly Mechanicstown, Frederick county, Md., May 7, 1839. He
was educated in the public schools and at the Mechanicstown
Academy. He learned the trade of saddle and harness maker,
and carried on business in Mechanicstown up to the time he
enlisted in the civil war. Mr. Rouzer cast his first vote for Bell
and Everett. Since that time he has voted the republican ticket.
He enlisted in the Union army August 19, 1862, and Gov. A.
W. Bradford commissioned him first lieutenant of Company D,.
Sixth Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infantry. In May, 1863, he
was promoted captain of company B of the same regiment. He
was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness and was a prisoner
of war four months in Libby, Danville and Salisbury prisons.
At the close of the war he was breveted major and lieutenant-
colonel for gallant and meritorious services. In 1866 he was
elected on the Union ticket to represent Frederick county in the
Legislature. In 1869 Postmaster-General John A. J. Creswell
appointed him postmaster at Mechanicstown, which office he
resigned after he was nominated by his party for register of
wills. He was elected to that office and served until the expira-
tion of his full term. He was a member of the House of Dele-
gates during the session of the Legislature of 1894, and voted
for the assessment bill and free school books.

Col. Rouzer was one of Senator Wellington's strongest sup-
porters for the Senatorial nomination. He is a fearless advocate
of whatever he believes in.

He is a member of committee on organization, chairman of
Committee on militia, on manufactures, on corporations.