BIO: Solomon Metz MILLER, M.D., Marion, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 304
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SOLOMON METZ MILLER, M. D.

  S. M. Miller was born at Marion, this county, on January 26, 1866, a son of 
John Franklin and Martha (Metz) Miller.  He attended the common schools and for 
several terms the Cumberland Valley State Normal School at Shippensburg.  He 
taught for three years in the public schools at Marion and then studied 
Pharmacy, graduating Ph. G. in 1890 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

  In January, 1891, Dr. Miller was appointed Pharmacist in the State Hospital 
for Insane at Norristown, serving until 1902 when he was graduated M. D. from 
Jefferson Medical College and became at once Assistant Physician in the 
Hospital, and since has held successively the positions of Chief Resident 
Physician, Assistant Superintendent, Acting Superintendent, and now is 
Superintendent of this institution, the largest of the kind in the State.  In 
January, 1926, the Board of Directors of the Hospital gave Dr. Miller a public 
testimonial for his thirty-five years continuous service in the work of the 
Hospital.

  Dr. Miller specializes in mental diseases and is a member of various Medical 
Societies and Associations.  He is a member of the Reformed Church and of the 
Masonic Fraternity and is a Republican in politics.  He married in 1908, 
Katheryn Law Brooks.