Miller School of Albemarle - Blue Ridge Blast Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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EIU i Qomuel miller iIFouuoer of the Qlhiller iarhooi rnho, when an Aahieftip poor boy, formto the unimrping purpoyie of higi rife, to huilo a School! mhrre, with ohunoant meanf ano rare eoutotionai fatiiitiegi, the pipecioi ohieiis of his rare rouio through aii time have opportunity, hope ano Iife, . W 'fEIji5 first Iboiumo r is mogit iouinglp oeoitareo hp those, nom grown to be men onoirnomen, whom . hii generougi forethought hieofieo ono fem out into the roorio 'to help othergi emo to 'oo honor to higi memory. 1

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Samuel Miller The f0'1llldC1' of the lllfilcr illmzzzal Labor School of Albemarle. BORN JUNE I, 1792. DIED NTARCI-I 27, 1869. I O one has ever done financially for the cause of education in Virginia as much as Samuel Miller. A No alumnus of the University of Virginia has ever done financially as much for his Alma Mater as Samuel Miller, who never enjoyed her benefits. I No one has ever done financially for female education in Virginia as much as Samuel Miller. No one has ever done for the cause of industrial education in Virginia as much as Samuel Miller. Now who is this great benefactor? Wfhere was he born? By what refining influences Was he surrounded in his early days that made him do so much? In what school was he educated that he received such an impulse for the cause of education? He was born in a log cabin with one room and a dirt floor and one glassless Window, on the summit of the Ragged Mountains in Albemarle, eight years after the coming of the Hessians from the Charlottesville jails. There was nofhiiig to commend his surroundings but the pure air and Water and the magnificent views. There is nothing to commend his mother except himself. His father was, While known, legally unknown. His grandfather and grandmother were the poorest of the poor and died about the time of his birth, and are buried near that cabin door. His mother's name was Ianeg she had tvvosisters, named Mary and Ann. Mary had a son named Jesse, who was a half brother to Samuel. jane had another son named John, older than Samuel, and his full brother. He and Johnand Jesse got all their education at the common school at Batesville. As they were poor boys their tuition was paid for by the State. This gives us some idea of the value of the schools in Virginia before the War. His mother and his aunt Mary are buried in the Miller School burying- ground, near the home of his mother, which her son prepared for her on the tract of land upon which he planned to build his famous school. She died in 1841. M 5