OBIT: Edgar Holmes MILLER, 1940, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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EDGAR HOLMES MILLER

  Edgar Holmes Miller, a resident of Salisbury from 1900 until about 1926, died 
in the Presbyterian Hospital, in Pittsburgh, Friday, Sept. 25th, at the age of 
63 years, following a surgical operation for the removal of an internal cancer.
  He had been in poor health, but being an energetic and very successful 
casualty insurance agent for some years, stuck to his duties in his office until 
about two weeks before he died.  A surgical operation was deemed to be the only 
course to pursue; but apparently the operation was performed too late, and death 
soon followed.
  Mr. Miller came to Salisbury some time during the year 1900, and established 
himself in the drug business in the building now occupied by William J. Diehl 
and family, and had associated with him in business a Mr. Shaler.  The firm was 
known as Miller and Shaler, but was dissolved about a year later, when Mr. 
Miller became the sole owner, and not long thereafter he purchased the brick 
building on the southeast corner of Grant and Ord streets, which is now owned by 
Stanley M. Thomas, and used by him as a residence, and also for his undertaking 
business.
  He was a very energetic businessman, and did a very lucrative drug business, 
and later purchased two very good farms in Elk Lick Township, one at that time 
being known as the F. S. Bissel farm near Compton's Mill and the other at that 
time known as the Frank O. Livengood farm, near Boynton, the latter being 
underlayed with several seams of coal.
  Mr. Miller soon sold the Bissell farm, and had a tenant on his other farm.  
For a time he also operated several small coal mines, and was also engaged in 
the sawmilling business for about two years.
  In 1914 he sold his stock of drugs and fixtures to Daniel W. Livengood, in 
order to give more time to his other lines of business. Some of his investments 
later proved unprofitable and like many other businessmen he suffered heavy 
financial reverses, which caused him to leave here about the year 1926 and all 
his financial interests in this vicinity were disposed of to others.
  Mr. Miller also having had experience in the insurance business, decided to 
give that business his entire attention, and soon built up a lucrative business 
in that line.  Since leaving here, he and Mrs. Miller have resided in 
Pittsburgh.  However, before locating there, he and his family resided for some 
time at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where they were among the victims of a tornado, 
floods which rendered many people homeless in some of the boom towns of that 
state.
  Mr. Miller is survived by his faithful wife, Mary (Sawhill) Miller, and four 
sons, namely, Edgar of Chicago; Darrel of Harrisburg, Pa.; George of Pittsburgh, 
and Darby of New York City.
  Deceased is also survived by two grandchildren and by two sisters who reside 
with their mother at Claysville, Washington County, Pa., where deceased was born 
and reared.
  Full funeral details seem to be unknown to any of the numerous persons in 
Salisbury who were numbered among the friends and acquaintances of Mr. Miller 
when he resided in Salisbury, and who always admired his pluck and energy, and 
for his refusal to consider himself beaten when financial loss and worries came 
to him.
  They only seem to know that his body reposed at the Miller home in 
Wilkinsburg, where he and Mrs. Miller resided at the time of his death, and that 
his burial took place at Claysville, last Monday.

Meyersdale Republican, October 3, 1940