San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, William H. February 6, 1860 - January 16, 1931
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page  122
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     WILLIAM H. MILLER was born at Centerville, California, February 6, 1860. 
For many years he was a prominent figure in the exporting business at San 
Francisco. However, the works of interest that made him most widely known were 
in his official relationship with the Native Sons of the Golden West, of which 
he was a past grand president.

     The Native Sons of the Golden West originated in 1875, and when the 
individual organizations were affiliated into a State Grand Parlor,
Mr. Miller had the great honor of being chosen one of the early grand
presidents in 1890. He organized the South San Francisco Parlor and
many other Parlors and officiated at the installation of many others, among
which was the Santa Rosa Parlor, and he was a charter member of the
Pacific Parlor. For years his greatest pleasure and delight was in officially 
sponsoring and helping organize new parlors. It was for this work and his 
constant devotion to his native state that his memory will be long
cherished.

     Mr. Miller was a son of William Henry and Magdalene Eleanor
(Korn) Miller. His father came from Scotland to California in 1849,
while his mother was a native of Alsace-Lorraine. When William H. Miller was 
two years of age his parents moved to San Francisco, in 1862.
A short time later they traded the site of the present Palace-Grand Hotel
for property at 1759 Sutter Street, where was erected the Miller residence, in 
which William H. Miller lived for sixty-eight years, until his death on 
January 16, 1931. The late Mr. Miller and his brothers were all obliged by 
their father to learn a trade. Mr. Miller himself took up work as a mechanic, 
but in his early manhood gave this up in order to go into the export business. 
Until the last days of his life he was head of an important business exporting 
cattle and shipping live stock to Honolulu and oriental countries. In earlier 
years he had been, identified with other activities, and until 1905 was 
interested in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. The export business is now 
being carried on by his niece, under the name of William H. Miller. Formerly 
Mr. Miller was associated with the Schuman Carriage Company of Honolulu, and 
this association was carried on up to the time of his death.

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