BIO: Isaac MILLER, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  ISAAC MILLER, a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Bellefonte, 
is a native son of Centre county, born in Spring township, August 23, 
1839. His parents, Robert V. and Elizabeth (Lytle) Miller, were natives 
of Chester and Centre counties, Penn., respectively, the form born in 
1795, and the latter in 1807. In Chester county, the paternal 
grandfather, Reuben Miller, who was of English descent, spent their 
entire life, while the maternal grandfather was born in Centre county, 
but passed his last days in Clearfield county.
  Robert V. Miller was a nephew of the Valentines of Bellefonte, in 
which place he made his home for some time, working in the iron mills 
until 1833, when he removed to a farm four miles east of the city, and 
operated the same until 1858. In that year he became a resident of 
Pleasant Gap, where his death occurred in 1863; his wife departed this 
life in 1869. For five years before his death he was totally blind. He 
was a loyal, patriotic citizen, devoted to the interests of his 
country, and always supported the party whose principles he thought 
would best advance its interests, being at different times an 
Abolitionist, Know-Nothing and Republican. A conscientious, earnest 
Christian, he was a faithful member of the Society of Friends, and a 
just, upright man in all things.
  In Spring township Isaac Miller grew to manhood, assisting his father 
in the work of the farm and learning to "read, write and cipher" in the 
district schools of the neighborhood. He remained upon the home farm 
until his marriage, January 17, 1865, to Miss Catherine Pennington, who 
was born in Penn's Valley, May 2, 1841. Four children have been born to 
this union: Elizabeth L., wife of Ed P. Moore, of Tyrone, Penn., by 
whom she has one child - Catherine P.; Isaac P., who is clerking in a 
dry-goods 

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house in Philadelphia; Annie, who was born in 1869, and died in 1871; 
and Mordecai, at home. The wife and mother has served as toll-gate 
keeper since October, 1891.
  For some time after his marriage, Mr. Miller was interested in the 
coal business, later owned and operated a threshing machine, and ran a 
delivery wagon for the Valentine store, Bellefonte. He then became a 
puddler in an iron furnace, where he is still employed. In 1865, during 
the Civil war, he was drafted for service, but hostilities had ceased 
before his company was called upon for duty. He is an ardent Republican 
in politics, and a worthy member of the Society of Friends. Enjoying 
the esteem, confidence and respect of the whole community, Mr. Miller 
may well be classed among the prominent and representative citizens of 
Centre county. He is a man of the strictest integrity and honor, and 
assuredly merits the high regard in which he is universally held.