BIOGRAPHY: Dr. E. L. 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. 94-5
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DR. E. L. MILLER, one of Johnstown's leading young physicians, is a son of Rev. 
J. K. and Charlotte Henrietta (Ziegler) Miller, and was born July 15, 1859, in 
Friedens, Somerset county, Pennsylvania.
     He was educated at Centre Hall, Centre county, Pennsylvania. For about four 
and one-half years he was with his father and brother John in the drug business 
at Centre Hall. He clerked for a time in A. A. Kerlin's general merchandise 
store at Stone Mills, Centre county, then went into the lumber business for 
about a year and a half. Later he studied medicine under Dr. W. A. Jacobs, of 
Centre Hill, and entering the University of Maryland, graduated in 1884. He 
first practiced in Philipsburg, Centre county, for three months, then for three 
and a half years at Unionville, Centre county, and in December, 1887, came of 
Johnstown, where he has remained ever since, a general practitioner of merit.
     He is a member of the Centre County Medical society, of the Pennsylvania 
State Medical society, and of the Cambria County Medical society, of which body 
he has served both as vice president and as secretary. His fraternal 
affiliations are with the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a republican.
     October 30, 1884, Mr. Miller married Joanna E. Atherton, a daughter of 
Nelson Atherton, and has two children. The oldest, Elvira May, was born February 
1, 1886; the second, Clarence A., was born July 18, 1888. The authentic family 
history of Dr. Miller, on the paternal side, begins with his grandfather, 
Charles Miller, a native of Maryland, who emigrated, living successively in 
York, Cambria, Centre and Bedford counties. In the latter county he established 
himself at Bedford as a cigar maker, following this trade until the last twenty 
years of his life, when he became a paralytic.
     A sketch of the life of the father of our subject forms a very interesting 
portion of the family history. Born in Manchester, Maryland, 1823, he learned 
the trade of a cigar maker, but, being dissatisfied with is attainments, 
determined to make his way through Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania. This he did, overcoming difficulties which would have disheartened 
a less brave spirit, and graduated in 1850. In this college, a Lutheran 
institution, he took the full classical and theological course, requiring seven 
long years of hard study. He was then ordained to the Lutheran ministry, and 
served in that relation the remainder of his life, dying at Loganton, Clinton 
county, where he had been living, September, 1887. He was a thoughtful, 
suggestive preacher and a scholarly man, who always took an active, earnest part 
in church and educational work. He was for a number of years a trustee of 
Pennsylvania college, and was also the second county superintendent of the 
schools of Somerset county. Having had dyspeptic tendencies, he was induced to 
take the latter position on account of his health. He was a constant reader, and 
sought in all his preaching to pour light upon all great public questions, 
meanwhile uttering truths which lay at the heart of all ages.
     He was a man of keen sympathies and human instincts, who has been held in 
the kindest remembrance by many who knew him. He was a pioneer preacher of great 
religious influence, who yearned to carry to others the charities of a Christian 
faith. Being likewise an eloquent, forcible, convincing speaker, he was an 
acknowledged leader in the conventions of his church.
     In addition to these high qualifications, he was a business man of no mean 
ability, as is evidenced by important real-estate deals in Illinois and in Adams 
county, Pennsylvania, which he put through with honorable success. Politically 
he was a whig, but became a democrat. His first wife, and mother of our subject, 
was born in 1832. Their family consisted of ten children: Charles A., who died 
at Centre Hall, at the age of twenty-two years, a young man of fine education 
and high Christian character; John C., a traveling merchant for the drug firm of 
J. A. Williamson, Frederick, Maryland; Eugene, of Lorain, Ohio, in the employ of 
the Johnson company; Dr. Miller, our subject; Jacob K., of Johnstown, an 
employee of the Cambria Iron company; with his brother John C.; Mary Grace, wife 
of Frank Singer, of Johnsonburg, Elk county,   Pennsylvania, manager of a paper 
mill; Annie Gertrude, of Johnstown; Maggie, who died at Chambersburg, a child of 
two and a half years; Charlotte H., wife of C. H. Morris, druggist, of Millheim, 
Centre county; and William, who died in infancy.
     The father of our subject was married the second time to Barbara Ellen 
Lonebarger, of Centre county, and to this union was born one child, Nellie M., 
book-keeper for the hardware firm of Goodfellow, Melvin Co., of Altoona, 
Pennsylvania. Few families, it may be said, have been more fortunate than that 
of the Rev. J. K. Miller's in having the example of a noble father.