BIO: Nevin N. MILLER, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, pages 38-39.
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  NEVIN N. MILLER is the leading and most prominent fuel and supply dealer 
in Tyrone and the foremost representative merchant in the building materials 
field in Central Pennsylvania, being president of the Tyrone Fuel and Supply 
Company.  He is an active and prominent citizen of Tyrone, is well known in 
banking and other financial fields, and in philanthropic and fraternal 
affairs.
  Nevin N. Miller was born in Martinsburg, Blair County, February 17, 1884, 
the son of Jeremiah Miller, a native of Martinsburg, who was a wealthy coal 
and grain dealer of that borough having been a partner of the concern of 
Skyles, Miller & Company, from which he retired in 1915, and Mary A. 
(Thatcher) Miller, who was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.  After he 
had received a common school education in Martinsburg, Nevin N. Miller 
entered the banking business, in which he remained but a short time.  He 
then became associated with his father's firm in Martinsburg, Skyles, Miller 
& Company, with which he remained until 1909, acquiring the experience in 
this firm that formed the basis of his present success.  In 1909 Mr. Miller 
and his brother, Harry R., a biography of whom follows, formed a 
partnership, with Nevin N. Miller as senior member, and bought out the 
Gardner Fuel and Supply Company, of Tyrone, a firm that had been in the 
grain and coal business since 1902, and gave it the new name of the Tyrone 
Fuel and Supply Company.  The two brothers operated the enterprise under the 
partnership until 1912, when they incorporated the business.  Nevin N. 
Miller, having been senior partner, became president and general manager, 
while Harry R. Miller became vice-president and treasurer.  The offices of 
the company are at No. 20 West Tenth Street, in Tyrone, while there is one 
yard at Washington Avenue and Thirteenth Street and another yard at 
Washington Avenue and Fourteenth Street.  The company handles a complete 
stock of building materials, ice and fuel.  It is the largest enterprise of 
its kind in Tyrone, while it leads in size and volume of business in the 
building materials field of all Central Pennsylvania.
  Nevin N. Miller is director in the First National Bank of Tyrone, in the 
Western Pennsylvania Building Supply Association, and he is a director and 
treasurer of the Methodist Home for the Aged, and a director in the Tyrone 
Chamber of Commerce.  In Methodist Church affairs he is exceedingly 
prominent, being a trustee and the secretary of the official board of the 
First Methodist Church of Tyrone.  Mr. Miller is a member of Tyrone Lodge 
and the Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the 
Chamber of Commerce of Tyrone and the United Commercial Travelers' 
Association.
  Of particular interest to those in the same business as the Miller 
Brothers is the fact that, unlike many others in the field, they operate 
mines at Mountaindale and a sand quarry at Bellwood, at both of which they 
produce coal and sand for their own use as well as for the general market.  
They employ forty to fifty persons, operate eight trucks and five teams, and 
do a most successful wholesale and retail business.
  Nevin N. Miller married Margaret Rumberger, a native of Warriors Mark, 
Huntingdon County, in 1907, and they have one son, Kenneth N. Miller.