many.

On February 17, 1899, Lewis Miller died in a hospital in New York where
he had been taken to undergo an operation from which he failed to rally.
He was seventy years of age and had given his whole heart and the best
of his life to Chautauqua. But for Lewis Miller there would have been no
Chautauqua, though there might have been an Assembly under some other
name. He had chosen the place, had urged the location, and in its
inception had aided in its plans, had supervised its business interests,
and had contributed generously to its needs. At the opening of the "Old
First Night" service in August, 1899, the white lilies bloomed in his
honor, but instead of being waved, were held in solemn stillness for a
full minute, and then slowly lowered, and this memorial has been
observed on every "Old First Night" since. The names of Lewis Miller
and John H. Vincent stand together in equal honor as the two Founders of
Chautauqua. Next to these Founders we remember on "Old First Night" two
of the Vice-Presidents of the Board of Trustees, the late Francis H.
Root of Buffalo, and Clem. Studebaker of South Bend, Indiana, both wise
counsellors and generous givers to Chautauqua.

During the session of 1899, Theodore Roosevelt was for the third time
the guest of Chautauqua. The war with Spain had come and gone; he had
been Colonel of the Rough Riders, and was now Governor of New York. One
of those Rough Riders was young Theodore Miller, the son of the Founder
of Chautauqua, and the only Yale student to lay down his life in that
campaign. His memory is preserved by the Miller Gate on the University
campus. Another Governor was with us that summer, Robert L. Taylor of
Tennessee. The two brothers Taylor were the heads respectively of the
two political parties in their State, were candidates opposed to each
other, stumped the State together, slept together every night, played
the violin together at their meetings, and then after the concert, made
their speeches against one another. The writer of these pages may claim
a humble part in their careers, for both of them as boys, and also an
older brother, were students under his teaching in 1864 and '65 in
Pennington Seminary, New Jersey. We could tell some stories about those
three Taylor boys, but we refrain. I think that the Republican Taylor,
Alfred, is even now (1920) the Governor of Tennessee, as his brother was
its Democratic Governor in 1899.

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