Miley, John Henry & Cora (Brown)

Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 23, 1944 page 1

John H. Miley, Attorney Dies

John Henry Miley, 66, attorney, of 733 NE 19, former justice of the state supreme court and assistant attorney general of Oklahoma, died Sunday morning at the University hospital. He had been in failing health for a year, but had remained at his work until July.

Miley returned to private life in 1919. He specialized after discovery of the Oklahoma City field, in oil litigation and has acted as attorney for a number of corporations in Oklahoma City.

Probably his most important legal triumph was his successful defense of proration laws, especially as applied in the city field, against the attack of the Champlin Refining Co.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cora M. Miley, 733 NE 19; a daughter, Mrs. William Taylor Harney, Kansas City, Mo.; a son Lieut. William H. Miley, stationed in the judge advocate general's department at Washington, D. C.

Services will be in charge of the Guardian funeral home, awaiting the arrival of the son from Washington, D. C.

Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 20, 1950 page 6

Mrs. Miley's Funeral Rites To Be Friday

Services for Mrs. Cora Brown Miley, about 70 of 733 NE 19 will be at 10:30 Friday in Guardian funeral chapel. Burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery.

Mrs. Miley died Tuesday in her home of a heart condition. She had been ill two months.

Born in Arkadelphia, Ark., she came to Oklahoma before statehood settling first in Pauls Valley. In 1907 she married John H. Miley, a well known attorney and ____ member of the state Supreme Court. Miley died in 1944. She moved here in 1919.

Mrs. Miley, a graduate of _______ college, Arkadelphia, Ark., was instrumental in organizing a ____ of _____. ____ ___ as ____ of the Federation of ____ ____. She was interested in childhood education and was the _____ of a number of _____ _____ and books for children.

Survivors are a son, William M. New York City, and a daughter, Mrs. Taylor Harney, Kansas City, Mo.

Family Researcher: Kay Boyd mkdb1405@aol.com November 2003.

Contributed by Marti Graham, November 2003. Information posted as courtesy to researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

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