BIO: Solomon Miller, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

569  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  SOLOMON MILLER, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg, was born in the house in 
which he resides, in this township, May 18, 1850, the son of Moses and 
Hannah (Mohler) Miller, who were residents of Cumberland County fifty-
eight years.  His great-great-grandfather, Ludwick Mohler, came, with 
his family, from Switzerland in 1730, settling near Germantown, and was 
the father of Henry, the father of John, the father of Daniel, who was 
the father of Hannah Miller, the mother of our subject.  On the 
father's side the great-grandfather, Michael Miller, also came from 
Switzerland, and settled in Lancaster County, Penn., 

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in 1722.  He begat George, who begat Henry, who begat Moses Miller, the 
father of our subject.  George Klein, the great-great-grandfather on 
the father's side, was a native of Zweibrucken, Germany, born October 
9, 1715.  The Mohlers were one of the first families in this county, 
and many of the residents of this township trace their origin to this 
name.  Solomon Miller, our subject, married Miss Hettie Hertzler, a 
daughter of Rudolph and Mary (Shoop) Hertzler, both born in Lancaster 
County.  [For a sketch of Rudolph and Mary Hertzler, see sketch of 
Henry Hertzler, page 568.]  On her twenty-second birthday, October 16, 
1873, the ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Moses Miller, 
an elder in the German Baptist Church.  Two sons, Clarence H. and Elmer 
R., have blessed their union.  Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
Solomon Miller have resided on the farm where he was born.