George Sloan Miller
History of Montana, 1894
US Genweb Montana Archives

George Sloan Miller, a resident of Deer Lodge Montana 
may properly be classed with the pioneers of the State 
he having come across the plains with his parents when a 
boy of nine years in 1864.Mr. Miller was born in St. 
Joseph Missouri, March 17, 1856, son of Finis Barnet 
Miller, an honored pioneer mention of whom will be 
found elsewhere in this work.  At the time the Miller 
family immigrated to Montana, George S. was at an age 
to appreciate the novelty of such a journey and yet not 
realize the dangers, which attended it.  Mary emigrants 
who went before and came after them were murdered by 
hostile Indians and the safe arrival at their destination 
of this family Mr. Miller attribute to the loving care of 
a Heavenly Father.In Helena and Deer Lodge, George S. 
attended school and after the removal of the family to 
California he took a course in the State University at 
Oakland.  He also attended Heald's Business College, 
San Francisco of which he is a graduate.  After 
completing his commercial course, he returned to Deer 
Lodge and engaged in mercantile business as an employee 
of W.W. Higgins with whom he remained some time.  Later 
he engaged in banking and still later worked for Bonner 
and Company, a number of years.  Then he became a 
stockholder and secretary of the Lyon Mining Company 
and at the same time bookkeeper and secretary of the 
N.J. Bielenberg Company in which he still continues.  
He is interested in both placer and quartz mining.  
For the past thirteen years he has also done an 
insurance business, represented some of the largest 
companies in the world, among them the Royal of 
Liverpool England.Mr. Miller was married April 27, 
1881 to Miss Eva J. Fox, of Minneapolis Minnesota 
and they have three children-Guy E., Orofino and 
George S. Jr.

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