Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....MILLER, Peter G. 1852 - living in 1899
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  PETER G. MILLER, a wholesale and retail dealer in coal and wood located at No.
  861 Market street, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pa., and one of the most
  enterprising and prosperous citizens of that town, was born at Pittston, Luzerne
  County, Pa., October 11, 1863, and is a son of Jacob Miller, also a native of
  Luzerne County.
  
     Our subject was educated in the public schools of Pittston and in 1887 he
  removed to Bloomsburg and engaged in the tobacco and cigar business on Market
  street, where J. Moyer now resides. He discontinued that business one year later
  and rented the old Jacoby coal yards which he conducted for two years; at the
  expiration of that time he purchased the yards and built new stables, icehouses,
  an office, and two dwellings, one of which is a handsome brick structure and is
  the home of our subject. Mr. Miller operates the largest coal and wood yards in
  Columbia County. His coal is delivered to him by canal-boats and he owns a
  storage-dock which has a capacity of four thousand tons.
  
    Mr. Miller was united in the bonds of matrimony to Margaret Jacoby, a daughter
  of Oliver and Eliza (Hartman) Jacoby, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth
  (Weikle) Jacoby. John Jacoby was born in Hillstown, Bucks County, Pa., and his
  wife was a native of Coopersburg, Pa.; soon after their marriage, they moved to
  Bloomsburg, where he followed his trade as a wheelwright. They were the parents
  of the following children: Melvina; Maria; Oliver A.; Arminda; Enos; and Martha
  M. He died young and his wife passed from this life aged eighty-four years.
  Oliver A. Jacoby, the father of our subject's wife, was born near the city of
  Philadelphia, October 12, 1820, and died in 1890. He was a very successful man
  in business and succeeded in accumulating a comfortable fortune. He was wedded
  to Eliza Hartman who bore him the following children: Leonora, wife of G. A.
  McKelvey; George, deceased; Jennie, also deceased; and Margaret, wife of our
  subject. Mr. Jacoby was a strong Republican in politics, was a member of the I.
  O. O. F. of Bloomsburg, and served as a school director several years.
  Religiously he was a member of the Lutheran Church.
  
    To Mr. and Mrs. Miller has been born one child, Edward J. In political views,
  our subject firmly supports the Republican party. Mr. Miller is in the prime of
  life, prosperous, and surrounded by many warm friends. He is a wide-awake and
  energetic business man and has given aid and comfort to numerous enterprises
  other than business ones.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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