BIO: William Henry 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

387  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  WILLIAM HENRY MILLER (deceased) was born near Millerstown, Adams Co., 
Penn., January 15, 1820.  He attended the Pennsylvania College until 
about the age of eighteen, when his father moved to this county and 
bought the Cumberland Furnace, now owned by the Crane Iron Company.  He 
soon after entered the law office of Judge John Reed, and was admitted 
to the bar.  He married, May 30, 1843, Miss Jane Rebecca McDowell, who 
was born in Carlisle, Penn., a daughter of Andrew and Rebecca (Wilson) 
McDowell.  Mrs. Miller is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, of 
Carlisle.  Mr. McDowell was born near Pittsburgh, and clerked in 
Philadelphia when a young man.  He married in Perry County, Penn., and 
after that event came to this county.  He was a son of Alexander and 
Nancy (Archer) McDowell, the former of whom was a civil engineer, and a 
son of Andrew McDowell, a Scotchman, who married, in Pennsylvania, Miss 
Sarah Shankland, of Port Lewis, Del.  They settled in this county and 
became rich, owning iron works and a great many slaves.  Rebecca 
Wilson, mother of Mrs. William Henry Miller, was a daughter of Maj. 
James Armstrong Wilson (a major in the Revolutionary war), a graduate 
of the Princeton College, who was admitted to the bar at Easton, Penn., 
where he afterward practiced.  He was a large land owner and farmer of 
this county, where he was born.  He married Miss Margaret Miller, a 
native of Carlisle, Penn., and a 

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daughter of Robert Miller, a rich tanner.  His wife was Elizabeth 
Calhoon, a native of Juniata County, Penn.  Mr. William H. Miller died 
June 18, 1877, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle.
               "His place, in all the pomp that fills
                The circuit of the Summer hills,
                    Is that his grave is green."