BIO: Victor Davis MILLER, M.D., Mason and Dixon, 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 379
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VICTOR DAVIS MILLER, M. D.
1838-1916

  Victor D. Miller was born March 6, 1838, near Williamsport, Md., the son of 
Albertus A. and Harriet (Davis) Miller.  He attended Pennsylvania College, 
Gettysburg, and then studied medicine with Dr. Charles Michaels in Greencastle, 
Pa.  After the usual course of study he was graduated M. D. in 1861 from 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

  Dr. Miller served during the Civil War as Assistant Surgeon of the 78th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  In 1865 Dr. Miller located at Mason 
and Dixon, Pa., where he continuously engaged in the general practice of 
medicine until the time of his death in 1916.  He was a member of the Washington 
County (Md.) Medical Society.

  In 1866 he married Alice Jane Rench of Washington County, Md.  Three sons of 
Dr. and Mrs. Miller became physicians.