BIOGRAPHY: Harry W. MILLER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 470-1
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HARRY W. MILLER, an enterprising merchant of East Conemaugh, this county, is a 
son of James M. and Barbara (McCoy) Miller, and was born near Blacklick, Indiana 
county, this State, April 6, 1861. His grandfather, Hugh Miller, was born in 
Indiana county, in 1804, being one of the old and substantial citizens of that 
county. He died in 1889. The father of Harry Miller was born in Indiana county, 
in 1834. He obtained a thorough preparatory education in the common schools and 
academies of his native county, and then took up the study of medicine. He then 
entered a medical college and graduated. He located in Indiana county, where he 
practiced for a time, when he removed to Bolivar, Westmoreland county, where he 
has practiced ever since. Dr. Miller takes a lively interest in everything 
pertaining to the advancement of his profession, belongs to a number of medical 
societies of a professional character, and has built up a large and appreciative 
clientele.
     The boyhood of Harry W. Miller was spent chiefly at Bolivar, where he 
attended the public schools and obtained a fair common-school education. When 
young he took a clerkship in one of the mercantile establishments of that place. 
In 1884, feeling he had sufficient knowledge of the business to warrant his 
entering upon a mercantile career on his own account, he founded an 
establishment of that kind in Bolivar, and remained there until 1892. He then, 
for one year, pursued a similar business at East Liberty, and then came to East 
Conemaugh, this county, where he has been ever since engaged in general 
mercantile pursuits. His store is centrally located, is well filled with 
everything usually found in a first-class mercantile establishment, and he has 
succeeded in building up a first-class trade. In 1882 he married Elizabeth, a 
daughter of Thomas Johnson, of Westmoreland county, and three children, Emma A., 
James M., and Charles, have been born to this union.