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Merton L Miller

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Name
  
Merton Miller


Died
  
January 25, 1953

Alma mater
  
Colby College, University of Chicago

Merton Leland Miller is a former professor of the University of Chicago who also served as the acting chief of the Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands. He is the one who discovered and studied the burial jars found on the island of Camiguin in 1910.

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Education

Graduated from Colby College in 1890 and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1897.

Career

Acting Chief of The Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands. President of the Mindinao Estates Co., a hemp farm organized in Manila, Philippines, in 1904. Involved in tax litigation in 1942 regarding dividends received from the Balatoc Mining Company (now Benguet Corporation).

Published works

  • The Non-Christian people of Ambos Camarines, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1911
  • The burial mounds of Camiguin Island, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1911
  • The Mangyans of Mindoro, Merton L. Miller, Bureau of Printing, 1912

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