SIDNEY TROWBRIDGE MILLER In a profession that was signally honored and dignified by the life and services of his father, the late Sidney T. Miller, it has been given the subject of this review to gain for himself a secure position as one of the representative members of the bar of his native city, where he is well upholding the prestige of the family name, which has been identified with Michigan history since the territorial epoch. The only surviving child of the late Sidney T, and Katherine (Trowbridge) Miller. Sidney Trowbridge Miller was born in the family homestead on Jefferson avenue, Detroit, on the 4th of January. 1864. To the excellent schools of his native city he is indebted for his preliminary educational discipline, and here he thereafter pursued Ins preparatory colleginte studies in Drown Academy, an excellent private school of the day. In 1881 he entered historic old Trinity College, at Hartford. Connecticut, in which be was graduated as a member of the class of 1*85 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 18SS his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. In 1885-6 Mr. Miller prosecuted the study of law under the effective preceptorship of his father, and he then entered the law school of Harvard University, where he continued his studies for one year. In 1887 he was admitted to the Michigan Bar, upon examination before the supreme court of the state, and later he was admitted to practice in the federal courts. He initiated the practical work of hia profession in Detroit, where he built up a large and representative business in his chosen vocation and where he devotes special attention to corporation law, in connection with which he has gained marked success and authoritative position. He is known also as a resourceful and versatile trial lawyer and as a close and appreciative student along professional as well as academic lines. He holds membership in the American Hnr Association and the International Law Association, as well as those of Michigan. Wayne county and Detroit, and his close observance of the ethical code of his profession has gained and retained to him the confidence and high regard of his confreres. Mr. Miller accords unswerving allegiance to the Democratic party, in whose faith he was reared, but he has never been animated by aught of aspiration for political office of any description. He is a director in and counsel for a number of important industrial and financial corporations in Detroit. He is likewise a number of the directorate of the Wyandotte Savings bank, at Wyandotte, a suburb of Detroit, and he succeeded his father in the presidency of the Detroit College of Medicine, of which office be is serving as vestryman. Besides which he is a member of the standing committer of the diocese. Of the more representative civic organizations in Detroit with which he is identified may Ik' mentioned the Detroit Club, the Country Club, the Yondotega Club, the University Club, the Raquet Club, and the Detroit Boat Club, and he is also affiliated with the Delta Psi college fraternity. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are prominent and popular figures in the leading social activities of their home city and their attractive residence is a center of gracious hospitality in this connection. On the Fourth of November 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Lucy T. Robinson, daughter of Hon. Henry C. Robinson, a representative citizen of Hartford, Connecticut, and they have two children — Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Jr., and Elizaheth Trowbridge Miller. The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922; By Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller