Robert L. Miller Gas Transmission Company, based in Gabe in Green County, Kentucky. Miller was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Campbellsville and a trustee of Methodist-affiliated Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia in Adair County. He was active in Gideons International, a religious group which distributes Bibles to schools, hotel rooms, and other public places. Miller was a benefactor of the Boy Scouts of America, which awarded him its Silver Beaver Award. On August 31, 1947, Miller married Bernice Chapman (July 28, 1931 – December 1, 2000). The couple had a son and two daughters, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Beecher's Bibles throughout Kansas. The Beecher family was among the foremost abolitionist families in the country; Henry Ward's sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, had in 1852 written the anti-slavery classic "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Beecher's Bibles "Beecher's Bibles" was the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery combatants in Kansas. The name "Beecher's Bibles" in reference to Sharps carbines and rifles was inspired by the comments and activities of the abolitionist New England minister Henry Ward Beecher, of the New England Emigrant Aid Society, of whom it was written in a February 8, 1856, article in the