Essex County NJ Archives Biographies.....J. Wickliff MILLER, 1840 - 1915
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

MILLER, J. Wickliff,
Business Man.

  There is no positive rule for achieving success, and yet in the life of the
successful man there are always lessons which might well be followed. The man
who gains prosperity is he who can see and utilize the opportunities that come
into his path. The essential conditions of human life are ever the same, the
surroundings of individuals differing but slightly, and when one man passes
others on the highway of life and reaches the goal of prosperity before those
who perhaps started out before him, it is because he has the power to use
advantages which properly encompassed his fellows as well as himself, but were
either not seen, or neglected, by them. The qualities of keen discrimination,
sound judgment, and executive ability, entered very largely into the make-up of
the late J. Wickliff Miller, of Orange, New Jersey, and were contributing
elements to the material success which came to him. He was a descendant of one
of the old families of the State, Millerstown being named in their honor, this
being the present town of Union, Essex county, New Jersey.

  (I) John Miller, first known ancestor of the line herein followed, settled
first at Lynn, Massachusetts, and later, in 1649, at East Hampton, Long Island,
where he spent the remainder of his days. He married a Miss Pierson, of Suffolk
county, New York, a daughter of the Rev. Abraham Pierson, whose son Abram was
first president of Yale College, serving as such from 1701 to 1707. Abraham
Pierson was born in Massachusetts, 1641, died 1707, scholar and educator. The
sons of John Miller emigrated to New Jersey and settled in Elizabeth.

   (II) William Miller, son of John and ______ (Pierson) Miller, was a resident
of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and died in September, 1711. He married Hannah ____,
who died in 1711.

  (III) Samuel Miller, son of William and Hannah Miller, was born in 1674, died
March 14, 1759. He married Elizabeth Thompson, born in 1675, died November 13,
1747, daughter of Thomas and Mary Thompson.

  (IV) Enoch Miller, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Miller, was born in
1708, died December 1, 1756. He married Hannah Baker, born in 1712, daughter of
Jacobus Baker (or Backer, as the name was then spelled) and Margaret
(Stuyvesant) Baker, a half-sister of Governor Peter Stuyvesant, of New York.

  (V) Enoch (2) Miller, son of Enoch (1) and Hannah (Baker) Miller, was born in
1733, died January 10, 1813. He married Eliza Ross, daughter of John Ross.

  (VI) Enoch (3) Miller, son of Enoch (2) and Eliza (Ross) Miller, was born May
17, 1761, died April 21, 1841. He served gallantly as a soldier from the spring
of 1777 to the autumn of 1781 in the War of the Revolution. Pension was given
his widow. He married Keziah Stites Ross, May 25, 1783. She was born August 17,
1767, died December 1, 1851, daughter of David Ross, who was one of the jury
that tried and convicted Morgan, who shot Caldwell.

  (VII) Josiah Miller, son of Enoch (3) and Keziah Stites (Ross) Miller, was a
farmer by occupation. By diligence and thrift he was enabled to provide a
comfortable home for his family. He married Lucy Ann Jeffries.

  (VIII) J. Wickliff Miller, son of Josiah and Lucy Ann (Jeffries) Miller, was
born in the town of Union, Essex county, New Jersey, 1840, and died in 1915, at
Goshen, New York, where he had gone in order to restore his shattered health. He
was a very young child when his parents removed to the State of Iowa, and in
that section of the country he acquired his education and grew to manhood. After
some years he returned to the State in which he was born and there settled in
Orange, which remained his place of residence until his death, the last fifteen
years of his life being spent at the home of his only daughter, Mrs. Charles
Berg. He established himself in business as a hatter, with which line of work he
had been practically identified for some time, and followed this successfully
until he retired from active business responsibilities. He was a man of quiet,
gentle manner, earnest and steadfast in all he undertook, and won the confidence
of numerous friends as well as that of his business associates. In political
opinion he was a Democrat, and his religious membership was with the Orange
Baptist Church. His fraternal affiliation was with Corinthian Lodge, No. 57,
Free and Accepted Masons.

  Mr. Miller married, in Orange, New Jersey, Jane Burnett, born in Springfield,
Essex county, New Jersey, a daughter of Aaron Halsey and Martha C. (Bradbury)
Burnett; she died seven years after her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had
children: 1. Charles H., now a resident of California; married Bertha Dolbier
and has a son, Herbert W. 2. Wilbur N., who died September 12, 1916. 3. Lucy
May, who became the wife of Charles Berg and they were the parents of a
daughter, Anna Janet, who died at the age of fourteen years; and a son, Charles
Frederic; Mr. and Mrs. Berg reside at No. 215 Highland avenue, Orange, New Jersey.

  The Millers are connected by marriage or otherwise with many of the old
leading families of Elizabeth and Westfield, New Jersey, and through the
services in the Revolutionary War of Enoch Miller and Joseph Acken are eligible
to membership in the Revolutionary Societies.


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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN

VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK,  NEW JERSEY
1917


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