Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . gua Inter-Oceanic Canal Survey in1872; surveyed portion of the Western Divide, andhad charge of the hydrographic work on the SanJuan River. He returned to Nicaragua in theautumn of 187-^ as secretary to the commission ap-pointed by the Inited States Government to deter-mine which was tlie best route for a ship canal acrossthe Isthmus ; after completing this work he was en-gaged in Washington in writing the report on theNicaragua Canal. In 1S75 he was ordered to the European squadronand served in the IMediterranean on board
Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . gua Inter-Oceanic Canal Survey in1872; surveyed portion of the Western Divide, andhad charge of the hydrographic work on the SanJuan River. He returned to Nicaragua in theautumn of 187-^ as secretary to the commission ap-pointed by the Inited States Government to deter-mine which was tlie best route for a ship canal acrossthe Isthmus ; after completing this work he was en-gaged in Washington in writing the report on theNicaragua Canal. In 1S75 he was ordered to the European squadronand served in the IMediterranean on board the Frank-lin. During the winter of 1877 and 1878 he was onboard the Vandalia when General Grant visited theLevant in the course of his celebrated trip around theworld. Having completed his three years of sea ser-vice in European waters, Mr. Miller was assigned toduty at the Naval Academy as instructor of ordnanceand gunnery, where he remained until 1881, when hewas ordered once more to sea, and made his last cruisein the U. S. S. Jamestown as her navigator from San. CAPTAIN J. W. MILLER. 71 Francisco to New York, when that vessel came to theAtlantic under sail. This was probably the last sail-ing man-of-war that went around Cape Horn. Afterreturning from this voj-age he left the Navy andwent to Kansas, where he became identified with rail-road interests, and was made vice-president and gen-eral manager of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & WichitaRailroad. He remained with this and other corpora-tions in the West until May, 1886, when he wastendered and accepted the position of general mana-ger of the Providence & Stonington Steamship Com-pan}-, and of the New York, Providence & BostonRailroad. In May, 18S9, he was elected president ofthe Providence & Stonington Steamship Compan} is also president of the Nicaragua Company andthe Newport and Wickford Railroad & SteamboatCompany-, and has other marine and railroad inter-ests. Mr. Miller took an active part in the develop-ment of th
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