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- 1869 – Tobacconist, merchant, and railroad investor Samuel Miller died at his residence in Campbell county, VA (aged 76). Born from poverty in Albemarle County, he later lived in the outskirts of Lynchburg and quietly amassed his fortune to become one of the wealthiest men in the antebellum South. Considered a miser during his lifetime, but a generous philanthropist after death, Miller bequeathed both funds and land. His educational endowments today help support the University of Virginia and two institutions that bear his name: The Miller School of Albemarle, a boarding school for orphaned children, and the Miller Home for Girls of Lynchburg. Found in 1878, the Miller Manual-Labor School was a pioneer in combining the value of hands on labor with a liberal arts education.