BIO: Jacob H. MILLER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 969 & 970.
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  JACOB H. MILLER, who has been superintendent for the Clark Brothers Coal 
Mining Company, having charge of three mines, for the past seven years, is a 
representative citizen of Bigler township, and resides at Smoke Run.  He was 
born in 1869, in Lehigh county, Pa., and is a son of Phillip and Lydia (Meyer) 
Miller.
  Phillip Miller was a millwright and followed his trade in several sections of 
Pennsylvania.  Both he and his wife died at Philadelphia and are buried in Upper 
Milford township, Lehigh County, Pa.  They were members of the Evangelical 
church.  The following children were born to them:  Emma, widow of William 
Bower; Obediah; Catherine, widow of Joseph Kline; Sarah, widow of Manoa Trump; 
Thomas; Ellen, (Mrs. William F. Jacoby); Jacob H., and James.  Both grandfathers 
of the above family bore the name of Jacob.
  Jacob H. Miller attended the public schools in Lehigh county and at 
Philadelphia, after which he learned the art of telegraphy and worked as a 
telegrapher for fourteen years, during the most of this time for the Western 
Union Telegraph Company.  He then became connected with the electrical repair 
department of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, of New York city, and 
from there went to the Brush Electric Light Company of Philadelphia, having 
charge of the street lighting there for two years.  In 1901 Mr. Miller engaged 
with the Penn Colliery Company, coming then to Smoke Run as their electrician, 
and in 1904 he accepted his present position, one of large responsibility.  Mr. 
Miller had had a large amount of practical experience and has been considered a 
reliable and efficient man in every company with which he has been connected.
  In 1897 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Minnie G. Gillette, a daughter of 
Thomas and Elmira (Shindler) Gillette, residents of Jersey City, N. J.  Formerly 
Mr. Gillette was a telegrapher.  Mrs. Miller has had two sisters and three 
brothers:  Mary, who is the wife of L. W. Freeman; Grace, who is the wife of H. 
W. Heinbach; Robert W., Thomas, and George, who is deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Miller have one daughter, Edna Hilda, who was born in April, 1904.  They attend 
the Methodist Episcopal church.  He is a Republican in politics but has never 
sought any public office.  He is identified with the Masons at Osceola; the 
Knights of Pythias at Philadelphia, and the P. O. S. of A. at Madera, he being 
president of this organization of District No. 3, Clearfield county.