CLYDE W. MILLER DIES

WAS A MEMBER OF NOTED KAN-
_S$AS. RANCH FAMILY.

For Twenty-five Years He Had
Been in the Insttrance Busi-
“ness in Topeka—Active in
G: O;.P. Politics.

. OPEKA BUREAU
‘THE KANSAS CITY STAR

(By.a Member of The Star’s Staff.)
Topeka, April 16.—Clyde W. Miller,
one of the best. known political and | |
business leaders of Kansas, died in a
Topeka hospital tonight. He under-
went a second operation at the hos-

pital Monday and failed to rally.
‘Clyde Miller was born June 30, >
1875, at Osage City and grew up in
Osage City and at Miller, the home
point of the great Miller ranch in
Lyon and Osage counties. The land
_ holdings of the Miller family in the
ranch properties were near 12,000

acres.
The late Senator H. B. Miller and
his brother, W. W. Miller, came ‘to
Kansas in the early days of the state
and purehased large acreages of land
in the Elm creek and Marais des
Cygnes river bottoms and adjoining
pastures, : ea a :
COUSIN OF WILL J. MILLER/

H. B. Miller was the father of
Clyde Miller and W. W. Miller was
the father of Will J. Miller, long
associated with Clyde Miller in the
ranch and insurance business. Will
J. Miller now is state livestock sani-
tary commissioner, —

For many years the Miller brothers
were the largest land owners, stock
yaiser's, cattle feeders and taxpayers
in Lyon and Osage counties. The
ranch was situated at what was
known as Condell’s Crossing of Elm
‘Creek in the days of the Santa Fe
trail. When the Missouri Pacific
built its Colorado line, it established
the station of Miller at the ranch.
Clyde Miller ‘attended the College
of Emporia and was gaa of
the law school of the. University: of
Kansas but he did not engage ac-
tively in the practice of law. He
helped in the management of the
ranch, then became interested in the
“Insurance business with occasional
participation in politics. _ ioe

ON LIVESTOCK BOARD.

He was a member of the board of |-
directors of the Kansas Livestock
association for many ‘years and
served as mayor of Osage City be-.
fore he came to Topeka and estab-
lished his insurance companies. He-
served as chairman of the Re-
publican County committee in Osage
County, as chairman of .the fourth
district congressional committee and.
for four years was secretary of the
Republican state committee. He ran
Congress in the fourth district in
1916 and was defeated. He was one
of the original boosters for Landon
for the 1936 presidential nomination.
- For the last twenty-five years he
had been the active head of a large
insurance agency, and president of
the Preferred Risk Fire Insurance
company. He also was president of
the old: Gosmopolitan Life Insurance :
company. is
~ Clyde Miller married Miss Grace
Colwell of Lawrence. They have
four daughters, Mrs. Ned Fleming of
Topeka; Mrs. Preston Alexander and
Mrs. William W. Payne of Dallas
and Mrs. J. K. Kline of Miller, Kas.
~ Funeral services will be Friday, —