Robert Hugh Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Hugh Miller

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1826

Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1911

Profession: publisher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Robert Hugh Miller (November 27, 1826 – February 14, 1911), founder and publisher of the Liberty Tribune, one of the oldest newspapers of continuous publication west of the Mississippi, was born in Richmond, Virginia on November 27, 1826.
Mr.
Miller, a gentleman of a wide range of information and extended experience, whose life for nearly forty years was devoted to chronicling the events of the world for the instruction and advancement of the people, established the Tribune in 1846 and edited continuously until 1886.Robert Miller, age 44 in 1870, typified the inhabitants of Clay County, Missouri in lineage.
His family migrated from Virginia to Kentucky when he was six, and to Missouri when he was 12.
As a teenager he was apprenticed first to the Columbia Patriot and then to the Missouri Statesman and in April 1846, with support from John B.
Williams of the Fulton Telegraph and encouraged by Dr.
William Jewell of Columbia, Miller ventured to Liberty on Missouri's western fringe.Miller, gifted with rare business acumen, was one of the rare few who made a fortune in the printing office.