BIOGRAPHY: Maurice 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. 218-9
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MAURICE MILLER, the leading merchant tailor of Johnstown, Cambria county, is the 
son of Samuel and Eliza (Leopold) Miller, and was born in Pottstown, Montgomery 
county, Pennsylvania, on December 22, 1869. His father is a native of Germany, 
but before emigrating to this country he resided in England for a period of ten 
years. He came to the United States in 1859, and located for a short time in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1865 he removed to Pottstown, where he still 
resides. He is engaged in the merchant tailoring business, and conducts a large 
store at that place.
     In 1864 he married Eliza Leopold, a native of Germany, who came to this 
country with her parents and located in the State of Indiana.
     Mr. Miller was reared in his native town and received his education in the 
private and public schools of the same place. He went to Philadelphia, where he 
learned the trade of a cutter, and at the early age of eighteen years, such was 
the confidence placed in him by his father, that he was put in charge of a large 
merchant tailoring establishment by the latter, which he successfully managed a 
number of years. In 1891 he came to Johnstown, and opened a merchant tailoring 
establishment. He carries the finest piece-goods in the city, and attends 
personally to the cutting of fine garments, thus insuring perfection in style. 
Mr. Miller is not only successful as a business man, but prominent in social 
circles as well, and is a member of several social clubs, among which are the 
following: President of the Progress Club, a member of the Amicus Club and the 
M. S. Club.