BIOS: Norman E. MILLER, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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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. 275

Norman E. MILLER.

Norman E. Miller, of Meyersdale, senior member of the firm of Miller & Collins, 
is a native of Summit Mills, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, born November 24, 
1853, son of Ephraim and Lydia (Miller) Miller, and grandson on the paternal 
side of Daniel Miller, and on the maternal side of Peter Miller, of Summit 
township. 
Ephriam Miller (father) born at Summit township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, 
January 20, 1820, on the Miller farm, which is now known as the Lichty farm. He 
devoted his time and attention to farming and merchantile pursuits, and at one 
time was the oldest postmaster in the state, serving in that capacity at Summit 
Mills.  He was straightforward and honest in all his transactions, enterprising 
and public-spirited, and therefore won the esteem of his fellow townsmen.  Mr. 
Miller married, about 1845, Lydia Berkley, who died about 1847, leaving one 
child, Simon B., born 1846, who married Lydia Pike, of Summit township, and they 
now reside in Iowa.  In 1851 Mr. Miller married for his second wife Lydia 
Miller, daughter of Peter Miller, aforementioned, and the following named 
children were the issue: Uriah M., born March 20, 1852; Norman E., November 24, 
1853, of whom later; Mary, October 17, 1856; Ellen, June 28, 1860; and Maggie, 
September 28, 1865. 
Norman E. Miller attended the public schools of Summit Mills until sixteen years 
of age, after which he clerked for D. H. Wolfsburg, of Rockwood, who conducted a 
restaurant and general store.  He then pursued a course of advanced studies at 
the California State Normal school, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and from 
1873 to 1877 was employed in the Keystone mines and general store.  In the 
latter named year he located in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, where he was employed 
as a salesman for different lines until 1883, when he opened a department store 
in partnership with G. W. Collins under the firm name of Miller & Collins, which 
they are conducting at the present time.  He is vice-president and director of 
the Second National Bank, and a stockholder in the Meyersdale Sheet Steel 
Company, one of the leading enterprises of that town.  He is a member of the 
Brethren church, and his politcal allegiance is given to the Republican party. 
Mr. Miller married, December 31, 1876, Fanny Schrock, daughter of the Rev. John 
C. Schrock, of Somerset, Pennsylvania.  Two children were the issue: Robert, 
born September 18, 1880, married, October 1, 1903, Margaret Bittner, daughter of 
Samuel Bittner, of Meyersdale.  Walter, Born June 10, 1886, died June 2, 1900.