BIOS: Karl Albert MILLER, Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Roth Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 274 Karl Albert MILLER. Karl Albert Miller, a prominent business man of Meyersdale, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was born in Northampton township, June 13, 1876, son of John H. and Mary A. (Trimpse) Miller, and grandson of Henry W. and Anna (Reuker) Miller. Henry W. Miller was a native of Anersbach, Germany, and came to this country when a young man. He married Anna Reuker, of Anersbach, and they had two children; Henry W. and Anna B. Henry W. Miller (father) was born in Northampton township, Somerset county, July 16, 1853, and was for many years a merchant of Johnsburg. He was a justice of the peace of Northampton township for twenty-five years, and was for the same period of time school director and postmaster of Johnsburg. He married, in 1873, Mary A. Trimpse, a daughter of John B. Trimpse, of Oldenburg, Germany. Their children: Matilda, Karl Albert, of whom later; William H., Frank B., Irving C., Clarence G., Emma E., and Walter G. Karl Albert Miller obtained his initial education in the common schools of his native place, and later spent two years in the University of Pennsylvania. He taught school in Southampton township, Mountain school, Elk Lick, Meyersdale, and Northampton township. He took a one year course in Pierce's Business College at Philadelphia, and there laid an excellent foundation for a future business career. From 1902 until 1904 he had charge of the department of mathematics in the Meyersdale high school, and then associated himself in the grocery business with Mr. J. H. Pfaler. October 15, 1904, he discontinued this connection and started in business on his own account, in which he has since been very successfully and profitably engaged. He is also interested in various other enterprises, among them being the Second National Bank of Meyersdale and the Meyersdale Sheet Steel Company. He is a Republican in politics, and in church connectins a Lutheran. Fraternally he is a member of the F. and A. M., No. 554; Hebron, No. 272. He married, May 18, 1904, Edna, a daughter of Edgar Kyle, ex-sheriff of Meyersdale. One child, John Kyle, born May 5, 1905.