BIO: William M. MILLER, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 413-414.
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  DR. WILLIAM M. MILLER, who has an established reputation as a physician and
  surgeon, is a successful practitioner at Hookstown, Green township, Beaver
  county, Pa. His family is one of the old and highly respected families of
  Hancock county, West Virginia, where he was born October 5, 1863, and he is a
  son of John and Margaret A. (Campbell) Miller.
  
  David Miller, the grandfather of William M., was born in County Tyrone,
  Ireland, and in 1775 came to this country, first locating near Pittsburg,
  Pennsylvania. He afterwards removed to Hancock county, West Virginia, buying
  a tract of land east of the village of Fairview, where he lived until the
  Indian outbreak in that locality. He was then driven away and moved to
  Chartiers, Pa., remaining until peace was finally restored. Upon returning to
  his former home, he followed farming until his death, in 1848, having almost
  reached the remarkable age of one hundred years. He married Abigail Martin,
  and among their offspring was one John P., the father of the subject hereof.
  
  John P. Miller was born on the old homestead, in Hancock county, West
  Virginia, in 1832, and there he has always resided. He has a fine farm under
  a high state of cultivation, and has conducted it in a very successful
  manner. There are gas wells upon it, and at
  
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  one time he supplied the city of East Liverpool, Ohio, with gas. He is also
  quite an extensive fruit raiser. In politics he is a Republican. Religiously,
  he is a member of the Presbyterian church. He formed a matrimonial alliance
  with Margaret A. Campbell, and they had the following issue: Joseph,
  deceased; Elmer A., who now does the farming on the old homestead; Dr.
  William M., whose name heads this sketch; Robert S. and Benjamin S., twins,
  the former a farmer in Iowa, and the latter in Hancock county, West Virginia;
  Margaret Ellen, the wife of Lawrence Stewart, who lives near the home farm;
  Mary Jane, the wife of Frank Mayhew, a farmer, of Hancock county; and Henry
  O., who is living at home.
  
  Dr. William M. Miller received a common school education, and worked upon the
  home farm until he reached the age of fifteen years, when he learned the trade
  of a painter and paper hanger. After continuing thus for a period of four
  years, he was clerk in a store at Fairview for three years; he then taught
  school four years, in the meantime taking up the study of medicine. In 1887
  he entered the medical department of Wooster University, now known as the
  College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cleveland, Ohio. Being graduated in the
  spring of 1890, he entered upon a successful practice at Shiloh, Ohio, where
  he remained until 1894. Wishing a wider field in which to follow his
  profession, he wisely, and with good foresight, saw the many advantages
  offered in Beaver county, and as a result located at Hookstown, Green
  township. He rapidly acquired a good paying practice, and now has the
  patronage of the leading class of citizens of the district. Thus he has
  worked his way up in life from the lowly position of a day laborer to a
  prominent professional status, in which he ranks as one of the most skilled
  practitioners in this region. He was ever ambitious and energetic, and his
  advancement is the result solely of individual effort.
  
  In 1885 Dr. Miller was joined in wedlock with Ama Moore, of Fairview, West
  Virginia, and three children have been born to them: Cecil E.; John M.; and
  Edna. In political affiliations, he is a strong Republican. Religiously, he
  is a faithful member of the U. P. church.