Draft:Asher Miller

Asher Miller (1752 – December 24, 1821)^[1]^[2] was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (now known as the Connecticut Supreme Court) from 1793 to 1794 and from 1806 to 1807.^[3]

Born in Middlefield, Connecticut, Miller graduated from Yale College in 1778,^[2]^[4] with a class that was "distinguished for the talent of its members",^[2] including Noah Webster, Oliver Wolcott, and Uriah Tracy,^[5]

He ranked well in this class, and after he left college he acquired a proficiency in geology, mineralogy, and chemistry. He became a lawyer in Middletown, and was highly esteemed and honored by the people of that town. He probably commenced the practice of his profession about 1780, and in 1785 he was elected a representative in the Legislature. He was elected many times afterward, and so highly was he esteemed for his legal knowledge and his integrity that he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court in 1793, but resigned in 1795. He was long an assistant, and during many years presiding judge of the County Court and judge of Probate. On the death of Colonel Hamlin, in 1791, he was elected mayor of the city, and he held this position, with his two judgeships, till his death, in December 1821.

The Hon. Asher Miller Esq, Mayor of the City of Middletown, Chief Justice of the Co. Court for the Co. of Middlesex, and Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown, died Dec. 24th, 1821, in the 69th year of his age.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Samuel G. Drake, ed., "Epitaphs in Middletown, Ct.", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1861), p. 166.
^ ^a ^b ^c History of Middlesex County, Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men (1884), p. 32.
^ Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the state of Connecticut. Hudson and Goodwin. p. viii.
^ The Religious Intelligencer, Vol. 10 (1825). p. 341.
^ Yale Alumni Weekly, Volume 18 (1908), p. 96.