Elijah Miller was a lawyer

Lawyer

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 and judge

Judge

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 in Auburn

Auburn, New York

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, New York

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. His daughter, Frances Adeline Miller Seward, married future U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward

William H. Seward

William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...

in 1824. Seward was a junior partner in Miller's law practice. Miller granted permission for Seward to marry his daughter under the condition that they live in his South Street home with him.

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