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been living, September, 1887. He was a thoughtful, suggestive preacher and a scholarly man, who always took an active, earnest part in church and educational work. He was for a number of years a trustee of Pennsylvania college, and was also the second county superintendent of the schools of Somerset county. Having had dyspeptic tendencies, he was induced to take the latter position on account of his health. He was a constant reader, and sought in all his preaching to pour light upon all great public questions, meanwhile uttering truths which lay at the heart of all ages. He was a man of keen sympathies and human instincts, who has been held in the kindest remembrance by many who knew him. He was a pioneer preacher of great religious influence, who yearned to carry to others the charities of a Christian faith. Being likewise an eloquent, forcible, convincing speaker, he was an acknowledged leader in the conventions of his church. In addition to these high qualifications, he was a business man of no mean ability, as is evidenced by important real-estate deals in Illinois and in Adams county, Pennsylvania, which he put through with honorable success. Politically he was a whig, but became a democrat. His first wife, and mother of our subject, was born in 1832. Their family consisted of ten children: Charles A., who died at Centre Hall, at the age of twenty-two years, a young man of fine education and high Christian character; John C., a traveling merchant for the drug firm of J. A. Williamson, Frederick, Maryland; Eugene, of Lorain, Ohio, in the employ of the Johnson company; Dr. Miller, our subject; Jacob K., of Johnstown, an employee of the Cambria Iron company; with his brother John C.; Mary Grace, wife of Frank Singer, of Johnsonburg, Elk county, |
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Pennsylvania, manager of a paper mill; Annie Gertrude, of Johnstown; Maggie, who died at Chambersburg, a child of two and a half years; Charlotte H., wife of C. H. Morris, druggist, of Millheim, Centre county; and William, who died in infancy. The father of our subject was married the second time to Barbara Ellen Lonebarger, of Centre county, and to this union was born one child, Nellie M., book-keeper for the hardware firm of Goodfellow, Melvin Co., of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Few families, it may be said, have been more fortunate than that of the Rev. J. K. Miller's in having the example of a noble father.
JOHN C. MILLER, a brother of Dr. E. L. Miller, and a traveling salesman residing in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born February 18, 1854, at Friedens, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He received a high-school education, and learned the trade of a printer, serving a full apprenticeship. He went west later, and, after traveling over a number of western States, came back to Centre Hall, and between 1873 and 1879 was engaged in the drug business with his father. For eight years thereafter he was in the lumber business. This was followed by a year as a clerk, and then he embarked in the grocery business in Johnstown, continuing in it for about three years. Since that time he has been a traveling salesman in the drug business, first for the Physicians' Pharmaceutical company, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, until 1895, when they went out of business; now for a Frederick, Maryland, firm as before stated. |
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