Phineas Timothy Miller
Encyclopedia
Phineas Timothy Miller Was an American physician and a founding member of Yale
's Skull and Bones
Society.
, was born on May 3, 1810.
, he helped to found Skull and Bones
in 1832.
In 1841 he was made the Director of the New Haven Hospital.
He continued to practice his profession as a physician until 1849, with the exception of a short time spent operating an apothecary in New York City.
In January, 1849, he sailed from this city in the schooner Montague with a company bound for California. While in the mining region he was seized with chronic dysentery, and after being much enfeebled he embarked for home on the ship Clarissa Perkins. He died on shipboard, on February 21, 1850, in his 40th year, and was buried at sea.
, on August 31, 1836, Elvira, daughter of Henry and Anna (Butler) Whitmore, who survived him. Their children were three daughters and a son. The son and one daughter died in infancy.
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's Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....
Society.
Early life
Phineas Timothy Miller, son of Samuel and Mary (Gilbert) Miller, of Middletown, ConnecticutMiddletown, Connecticut
Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name, Mattabeseck. It received its present name in 1653. In 1784, the central...
, was born on May 3, 1810.
Career
He remained in New Haven after graduation, for study in the Yale Medical School, where he received his degree in medicine in 1835, And along with notable classmates such as Alphonso TaftAlphonso Taft
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, he helped to found Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....
in 1832.
In 1841 he was made the Director of the New Haven Hospital.
He continued to practice his profession as a physician until 1849, with the exception of a short time spent operating an apothecary in New York City.
In January, 1849, he sailed from this city in the schooner Montague with a company bound for California. While in the mining region he was seized with chronic dysentery, and after being much enfeebled he embarked for home on the ship Clarissa Perkins. He died on shipboard, on February 21, 1850, in his 40th year, and was buried at sea.
Family
He married, in Rocky Hill parish, in Wethersfield, ConnecticutWethersfield, Connecticut
Wethersfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. Many records from colonial times spell the name Weathersfield, while Native Americans called it Pyquag...
, on August 31, 1836, Elvira, daughter of Henry and Anna (Butler) Whitmore, who survived him. Their children were three daughters and a son. The son and one daughter died in infancy.