Merritt F. Miller papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4583

Scope and content

Tape recording of reminiscences of rural life in Missouri, 1900-1920. Scrapbook album containing pictures and memorabilia from Cornell 1900-1901. Contains trick photographs taken by Miller. Also materials relating to undergraduate time at Ohio State University. Photograph of Alice Miller, program from 1901 Cornell vs Princeton baseball game, campus and dorm photographs, fencing program, Alpha Zeta fraternity material, Cornell Pennsylvania 1901 regatta program, Pan-American Exposition program, O.S.U. Glee Club programs, Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations materials, Song Ying Lo Chicago menu, materials relating to Missouri.

Dates

1900-1907, 1965.

Creator

Miller, M. F. (Merritt Finley), 1875-1965. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Merritt Finley Miller was born on July 7, 1875 in Grove City, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Ohio State University in 1900 and a Master of Agricultural Science from Cornell University in 1901. Miller spent two years studying in Germany at the University of Gottingen, 1910-1911, and at the University of Munich, 1933-1934. He received honorary doctorates from Kansas State University in 1938 and Ohio State University in 1939. After a year as a soil surveyor with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and two years as an instructor in agronomy at Ohio State, Miller began his long career with the University of Missouri. He was a professor of agronomy from 1904-1914, professor of soils from 1914-1938, and dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in Columbia Missouri from 1938 to 1945, after which he spent many years as professor emeritus. His son was Robert Demorest Miller who served as dean of the faculty at Cornell University.