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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

1869 to 1896, except two years. 'Squire Shaffer is a member and trustee of Mt. Carmel United Brethren church, and ranks as one of the oldest and more representative citizens of his section of the county.     On May 7, 1857, Squire Shaffer married Elizabeth Strayer, a daughter of Jacob P. Strayer, of Yoder township. To 'Squire and Mrs. Shaffer have been born eight children: Anna Matilda, wife of William Giffin, a farmer of Adams township; Charles, who died young; George W., who died April 1, 1894, aged thirty-two years; William B. F.; Mary E., wife of Edward H. Boytes, of near Somerset, Somerset county; Ellen, who married A. C. Rively, of Richland township; Effie Etta, wife of Harry Gilman, a farmer; and Robert H., who is at home with his parents. One died in infancy. The Shaffer family is one among the old families of the western part of the State, while its members have always been known as respectable and reliable people. DR. E. L. MILLER, one of Johnstown's leading young physicians, is a son of Rev. J. K. and Charlotte Henrietta (Ziegler) Miller, and was born July 15, 1859, in Friedens, Somerset county, Pennsylvania.     He was educated at Centre Hall, Centre county, Pennsylvania. For about four and one-half years he was with his father and brother John in the drug business at Centre Hall. He clerked for a time in A. A. Kerlin's general merchandise store at Stone Mills, Centre county, then went into the lumber business for about a year and a half. Later he studied medicine under Dr. W. A. Jacobs, of Centre Hill, and entering the University of Maryland, graduated in 1884. He first practiced in Philipsburg, Centre county, for three months, then for three and a half years at

Unionville, Centre county, and in December, 1887, came of Johnstown, where he has remained ever since, a general practioner of merit.     He is a member of the Centre County Medical society, of the Pennsylvania State Medical society, and of the Cambria County Medical society, of which body he has served both as vice president and as secretary. His fraternal affiliations are with the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a republican.     October 30, 1884, Mr. Miller married Joanna E. Atherton, a daughter of Nelson Atherton, and has two children. The oldest, Elvira May, was born February 1, 1886; the second, Clarence A., was born July 18, 1888. The authentic family history of Dr. Miller, on the paternal side, begins with his grandfather, Charles Miller, a native of Maryland, who emigrated, living successively in York, Cambria, Centre and Bedford counties. In the latter county he established himself at Bedford as a cigar maker, following this trade until the last twenty years of his life, when he became a paralytic.     A sketch of the life of the father of our subject forms a very interesting portion of the family history. Born in Manchester, Maryland, 1823, he learned the trade of a cigar maker, but, being dissatisfied with is attainments, determined to make his way through Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This he did, overcoming difficulties which would have disheartened a less brave spirit, and graduated in 1850. In this college, a Lutheran institution, he took the full classical and theological course, requiring seven long years of hard study. He was then ordained to the Lutheran ministry, and served in that relation the remainder of his life, dying at Loganton, Clinton county, where he had

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