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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
The History of the City of Dayton
and
The Montgomery County, Ohio.
by Rev. A. W. Drury
1909
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JOHN A. McMAHON
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 24 |
Dr. George W. Miller |
GEORGE
W. MILLER, M. D. Dr. George W. Miller,
practicing medicine with ability that has brought him
prominently into public notice, was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, Mar. 18, 1870, his parents being Charles H. and
Hannah C. (Combs) Miller reprehensive of old families of
Cincinnati. The former was a son of George C.
Miller, who established his home in Cincinnati when it
contains only about three thousand population. He had
previously been a resident of New Jersey and came of
Revolutionary stock. He established from first
carriage factory west of the Allegheny mountains and his
output included the first iron-tired buggy manufactured in
this section of the country, the tires being forged by hand
from scraps of iron. On his retirement from business
at an advanced age he was succeeded by his two sons.
His labors, however, were an indispensable factor in the
early growth and progress of the city. He not only
contributed to its industrial development but was also one
of the founders of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati and as
advancement there. His son, Charles H. Miller,
father of Dr. Miller was for some time engaged in the
manufacture of plows and carriages in Cincinnati, so that
the family was long associated with industrial life.
He was the father of five children.
Pursuing his education in the public schools, Dr.
Miller eventually became a high school student and thus
completed his literary course. Later he pursued a
commercial course and in 1887 entered Pulte Medical College,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1891.
Dr. Miller began practice n Cincinnati and a year later
was called to the chair of anatomy in Pulte Medical College,
being thus identified with educational interests for two
years. He has practiced continuously in Dayton since
1893, in which year he became a partner of Dr. Joseph E.
Lowes. His practice has constantly increased, for
he has given proof of his ability to cope with intricate
problems of the profession. HE is now a member of the
Miami Valley Homeopathic Medical Society, the Montgomery
County Homeopathic Medical Society and the Ohio State
Homeopathic Medical Society.
In November, 1897, Mr. Miller was joined in
wedlock, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Miss Jennie D.
Tuttle, a daughter of Lucius Tuttle, president of
the Boston & Maine and the Maine Central Railroads.
They have two children, Mary and Ruth.
In his political views Dr. Miller is a republican but
not an active worker in the party ranks. He belongs to
he Dayton Bicycle Club and is a member of the First
Presbyterian church, in the work of which he is helpfully
interested. He is also a representative of the Masonic
Lodge, the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and is a most genial gentleman,
whose good will is manifest in deference for the opinions of
others, kindliness and unfailing courtesy.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 528 |
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GEORGE
W. MILLER, a most enterprising and prosperous
agriculturist of Jackson township, is numbered among the
worthy native sons of Montgomery county, has birth having
occurred in Madison township on the 29th of February, 1864.
His parents, the Rev. George and Catherine (Wampler)
Miller, celebrated their marriage in 1853, the ceremony
taking place in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. The
paternal grandparents were Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Bowser) Miller while the mother of our subject was a
daughter of Philip and Catherine (Royer) Wampler.
George W. Miller, of this review, is one of a family
of ten children, the others being as follows:
Benjamin, Philip, Anna, William, Edward, Jesse, Ira, Ezra
and Lizzie.
On the 15th of February, 1891, George W. Miller
was married to Miss Carrie Calhoun, a daughter of
Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Kuns) Calhoun, of Madison
township. By this union there are three children,
namely: Edith, born in 1893; Hugh, whose birth
occurred in 1894; and Russell, who was born in 1898.
Throughout his entire business career Mr. Miller
has been identified with the pursuit of general farming and
by reason of his untiring industry and unremitting energy
has gained a measure of success that entitles him to
recognition among the most substantial, progressive and
representative citizens of the community. He has an
extensive circle of warm friends in the county where he has
always resided, for the principles that have actuated his
life have been such as to win for him the highest esteem and
god will of his fellow townsmen.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 765 |
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LUCIUS
O. MILLER of Dayton, general church treasurer of the
United Brethren church of the United States, is a native son
of Ohio, his birth having occurred in St. Johns, Auglaize
county, Apr. 19, 1856. His grandfather, Daniel
Miller, was a native of Maryland and in his boyhood days
went with his parents to Fairfield county, Ohio, the family
being there established during the pioneer epoch in the
history of this state. Daniel Miller followed
the occupation of farming as a life work. His son, the
Rev. Daniel R. Miller, was born on the old home farm
in Fairfield county, June 13, 1835, and in 1860 became
actively identified with the ministry of the United Brethren
church. He has since devoted his time and energies to
the work of upbuilding the denomination in all of its varied
activities for the promotion of the cause of Christianity,
and his influence has been of no restricted order. He
is now a resident of Bloomdale, Ohio.
As the father's ministerial labors called him to
various points, Lucius O. Miller was reared in
different towns where he attended the public schools until
1873, when he entered Otterbein University at Westerville,
Ohio, remaining for three years a student in that
institution. He afterward entered the Farmers Bank at
Marion, Ohio, in the capacity of bookkeeper, occupying that
position for three years, when he became bookkeeper in a
wholesale men's furnishing goods house at West Liberty,
Ohio. He was for two years employed there and on the
15th of August, 1881, came to Dayton where he entered the
United Brethren publishing house as shipping and bill clerk.
His enterprise, diligence and capability won him promotion
to the position of cashier on the 1st of January, 1882, and
served in that capacity until the 1st of July, 1905, when he
assumed the duties of the general church treasurer to which
he had been elected by the general conference of the United
Brethren church for a term of four years. He is a man
of good business ability, manifesting keen insight as well
as capable control and moreover his industry is unflagging
and his resolution unfaltering. In this capacity he
has charge of the finances of the home missions, foreign
missions, general Sunday-school, general conference expense,
the Union Biblical Seminary, ministerial education and
church erection.
On the 6th of September, 1877, Mr. Miller was
married in Westerville, Ohio to Miss Lida J. Haywood,
a daughter of John and Sylvia (Carpenter) Haywood,
the former professor of mathematics in Otterbein University.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born six children:
John Daniel Miller; Sylvia Grace, the wife of
Richard Campion; Winton Leroy; Lucius Haywood; Edna Elaine;
and Marjory Mae.
In his political views Mr. Miller is a
republican interested in the growth and success of his party
because of his belief in its principles, yet without
aspiration for political preferment. He has served as
a member of the board of education and at all times is
interested in intellectual progress. He is a member of
the Present Day Club of Dayton and of the United Brethren
church, manifesting active support of all the different
branches of church work. Alert and energetic with a
thorough preliminary business training, he is well qualified
for the complex and onerous duties which devolve upon him in
his present connection.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 258 |
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SAMUEL
MILLER, successfully carrying on agricultural
pursuits in Madison township, is the owner of a fine farm of
one hundred and thirty-six acres situated about one mile
south of the Wolf Creek pike and three and a half miles
southwest of Trotwood. It was on this place that his
birth occurred on the 7th of July, 1853, his parents being
David and Anna (Shock) Miller. The paternal
grandparents were David and Hannah (Pfoutz) Miller,
the former the first representative of the Miller family
to come to this county, the date of his arrival being 1808.
In 1812, he took up the tract of land which is now the
property of our subject and there carried on general farming
until the time of his demise, being buried by the side of
his wife on the farm of John Garber in Perry
township, Montgomery county. His wife lived to be
ninety-one years of age and was one of the oldest settlers
in this part of the county.
David Miller, the father of our subject, was but
a small child when he accompanied his parents on their
removal from Augusta county, Virginia, to this part of the
state, which at that early day was still covered with
timber. He was connected with agricultural interests
throughout his active business career and was well known
throughout the community as one of its most highly esteemed
and enterprising citizens. He was twice married and by
his first wife, Miss Lida Souders, had two children:
Ephraim; and Mary, deceased. By
his second wife, who bore her maiden name of Anna Shock,
he had nine children, namely: John, Susanna, Hannah
and David, all of whom have passed away; Amos;
Rachel; Samuel, of this review; Aaron; and
Catharine.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 975 |
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SAMUEL
HARRISON MILLER, who as secretary of the Harshman
Improvement Company, has charge of the firm's land in
Montgomery county and also the supervision of the Miller
estate - a large tract located in Greene, Clark and
Champaign counties, Ohio - was born Oct. 22, 1843, in
Lebanon, Ohio, the son of Abraham and Susannah (Downey)
Miller. The father's parents were of German
descent and came to Ohio from Virginia. In the latter
state Abraham Miller was born received his
education, and was married, though he was still a young man
he came to Ohio. He was a mechanic by trade and
settled near Lebanon.
Samuel Harrison Miller was the seventh in a
family of twelve children, his brothers being Hamilton,
Jacob, William, George, John and Lewis. He
began his education in the school of Lebanon but after the
death of his parents were to Cincinnati, where he finished
his schooling. For his first business experience he
went to Pendleton, Ohio, where he engaged in railroading up
to the outbreak of the Civil war, when he responded to the
call for men to uphold the Union and enlisted in the Twelfth
Ohio Infantry. He served in the one hundred days'
service with the Army of the Potomac and through the latter
part of the war, and it was always with honor and credit to
himself, his company and his nation. Before the close
of the war he went south, where he engaged in the United
States military railroad business. Returning some time
later to Ohio, he took a course in Nelson College, after
which he again engaged in railroading, his run being between
Dayton and Sandusky. A few years later he entered the
employ of the Wabash Railway and made St. Louis his
headquarters. From there he went to New Mexico, where,
seeing so many opportunities at hand, he engaged in the
cattle business, which demanded all his attention for the
space of five years. Then again he returned to the
railroad business, this time in Iowa, where he remained for
eight years or until he came to Harshman, which he has made
his home since 1898.
On the 16th of April, 1878, Mr. Miller and Miss
Alice Harshman were united in marriage. Mrs.
Miller is the daughter of George W. and Virginia
(Rober) Harshman, well known in this county. This
union has been blessed with five children: Virginia;
Susan, the wife of Dr. H. Lyons Hunt, of New
York; Josephine; Alice, the wife of Dr. W. C.
Tobey, of Pyrmont, Ohio; and Warner, who is still
attending school and is taking a course that looks to a
commercial career. The family are members of the
Episcopal church of Dayton and are intimately identified
with its work.
Mr. Miller is a respected member of the
community where he lives and in whose welfare he takes an
especially deep interest. He served one year on the
board of education, but on account of his other business had
to resign, although much interested in educational matters.
His record as a soldier is a constant inspiration to youths
with whom he comes in contact so frequently. His
duties as manager of the Harshman Improvement Company are
not slight, yet they are assured and fulfilled with ability
and to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 699 |
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WILLIAM MILLER, who is
now living retired in the enjoyment of well earned and well
merited rest, but in former years was closely and
successfully associated with commercial interests as a
leaf-tobacco merchant of Dayton, was born in Emmettsburg,
Maryland, in the year 1846. The first nine years of
his life were there passed and in 1855, he accompanied his
parents on their removal to Ohio, the family home being
established in Fairfield. Later they went to Midway,
Ohio, and in 1867, Mr. Miller came to Dayton, where
for forty-two years he has now made his home. He had
previously acquainted himself with cigarmaking and in this
city began to work at his trade, which he followed in the
employ of others for about five years. Throughout this
period, however, he was stimulated by a hope and desire of
one day engaging in business for himself and when his
earnings and careful expenditure had brought him sufficient
capital, he began dealing in leaf tobacco, remaining in
active connection with the trade from 1872 until Mach, 1909.
In the intervening thirty-seven years, he had built up an
extensive business and had derived therefrom a handsome
competence which now enables him to live retired without
recourse to labor.
Mr. Miller is a respected and exemplary member
of the Odd Fellows society belonging to Wayne Lodge of
Dayton. In politics he is a democrat, but has never
taken any active part in the work of the organization.
Through many years his energies were concentrated upon his
business affairs and his close application was one of the
salient features of his success.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton and
Montgomery Co., Ohio by Rev. A. W. Drury - Publ. 1909 - Vol.
II - Page 1058 |
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