BIO: Samuel J. MILLER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 62.
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  SAMUEL J. MILLER, officer in charge of the Brush department, Pennsylvania 
Industrial Reformatory, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Miller township, 
Huntingdon county, April 26, 1861.  He is a son of Samuel, a farmer, and 
Elizabeth (Cunningham) Miller, both also natives of Miller township, and 
among its life-long residents.  The parents had three children:  David G., 
born April 25, 1857, is a surveyor in government service, and resides in 
Denver, Col.; Samantha A.; and Samuel J.  The father of the family died 
March 15, 1861, about a month before the birth of his younger son; his wife 
survives him, and, with her daughter, has her home in Huntingdon.
  Samuel J. Miller spent his boyhood and received his education in his 
native township, a pupil in its common schools.  There, too, he was actively 
engaged in tilling the ground until, in his twenty-fifth year, he acted on 
the memorable advice of Horace Greeley, and "went west."  For four years he 
was in the gentlemen's furnishing business, in Dodge City, Kan.  In 1889 Mr. 
Miller returned to Huntingdon county, and has ever since held his present 
important position, in charge of the leading industry of a most humane and 
serviceable institution.  He is one of the oldest officers of the 
Reformatory.  Mr. Miller is a Democrat.  He has for three years been 
secretary of the Smithfield township school board.
  Samuel J. Miller was married in Philadelphia, January 4, 1884, to Louisa 
H.E., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gibbs Harvey, Their children are:  
Elizabeth Gibbs; Dorothea; Charles Seely; Alice; and Frances Margaret.  Mr. 
Miller attends the Methodist Episcopal church.