A. Q. MILLER

A. Q. MILLER is a native Kansan, having been born in Washington county, February 7, 1874. After completing his schooling at Clifton, Kan., he took a business course in the Alamo City Business College, of San Antonio, Tex. He was married in 1896 to Martha L. Patterson, at Clifton, Kan., and to this union were born five children.

After several years' apprenticeship in the Clifton News office, under various managements, he bought the newspaper, when twenty years of age, successfully conducting it for two years. Selling the Clifton News to advantage, he bought and conducted the Riley Regent for three years, when he sold out to go to Victor, Colo., to become business manager of the Victor Daily Record, for a stock company of which he became a stockholder. During the three years he was connected in a business capacity with this stock company it purchased and consolidated three newspapers in the Cripple Creek district, hitting the high-water mark in circulation and business for this gold-mining camp. In 1904 he purchased the Belleville Telescope, later consolidating with it the Belleville Freeman and Munden Progress. He recently purchased and is publishing from the Telescope office the Agenda Times.

Mr. Miller has always taken an active interest in public affairs and politics, putting his newspaper behind many community enterprises. He was secretary of the Belleville Commercial Club five years, which he helped to organize, and was secretary of the Republican county committee five years. He was sergeant-at-arms in the last Republican national convention at Chicago, and was one of the ten presidential electors of Kansas in 1912. In 1916 he was one of the speakers at the Kansas Day Club banquet at Topeka, his subject being "Preparedness and the Republican Party." Always active in the fraternity side of newspaper life, he has been recording secretary of the Kansas Editorial Association and first president of the Fifth District Editorial Association.

When the Meridian Road was organized at Salina, Kan., Mr. Miller was one of the organizers and first treasurer. Likewise when the Rock Island Highway Association came into existence the meeting was held at Belleville at the invitation of Mr. Miller. He presided at the meeting and was elected secretary-treasurer, later organizing the first trip over the road from St. Joseph to Denver. When the Rock Island Highway was merged, as the Kansas link, into the national highway known as the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, at St. Joseph, Mr. Miller presided at the meeting, appointed the various committees, and was elected first vice president of the national organization. He is at present first vice president of the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, treasurer of the Kansas Division Meridian Road, secretary-treasurer of the Rock Island Highway, executive committee-man Kansas Good Roads Association, councilor Kansas Division National Highways Association.

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