Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....MILLER, William E. 1855 - living in 1899
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  WILLIAM E. MILLER, one of Forksville's most enterprising business-men, conducts
  a blacksmith shop at the end of Bridge street and is proprietor of the old stone
  grist-mill, which was built by Mr. Black many years ago. He is a son of Francis
  and Elizabeth (Davidson) Miller, and was born in Monroe township, Bradford
  County, Pa., December 12, 1855.
  
    Francis Miller, father of our subject, was born in Germany and after learning
  the trade of a blacksmith, he came to America, locating in Towanda, Pa., where
  he worked at his trade for several years. Removing to Forksville he purchased a
  blacksmith shop and remained in that business about thirty years. He then bought
  a farm now known as the Burgess farm, upon which he built a new house, barns,
  and made other improvements, and became one of the leading agriculturists of
  that section. He was without means when he started out .on his own account, but
  through his industry he accumulated a comfortable property. He died in 1889,
  aged sixty-one years, but his wife survives him, residing at Overton, Pa. They
  became the parents of seven children, namely: Orvilla Jane, the wife of W. H.
  Denorl of Waverly, N. Y.; William E., the subject of this record; Charles, a
  resident of Hoytville, who married Ella Brewer; Moses C., who married Kate
  Cadden and resides in Ringdale; Mary, the wife of G. W. Collins of Waverly, N.
  Y.; John of Elkland township, who married Marion White; and Henry of Forksville,
  who married Nellie Warren. Mr. Miller was a Democrat and after moving to
  Forksville served in the town council and held minor township offices.
  
    William E. Miller attended the public schools after which he learned the trade
  of a blacksmith with his father and has followed it ever since, with the
  exception of a period of four years, when he took the farm and conducted it
  until it was sold. He was for several years located at the Laporte tannery,
  having charge of the blacksmithing department, and later moved to Forksville,
  where he built his present shop and has since been engaged in business. He is a
  skilled mechanic and besides the various branches of his business in which he is
  engaged he is the only dealer in agricultural implements, wagons, etc., in the
  borough, and has a large trade. In 1897 he purchased of O. W. Mather the old
  grist-mill and carries on a large business. He is a thorough business man, of
  shrewd and unerring judgment, and has been very successful. He resides in the
  old Brown residence which he bought and he is one of the hustling men of the
  borough.
  
    Our subject was united in marriage with Alma Bird, a daughter of George C.
  Bird, and they are the parents of three children: Jennie May; George Francis;
  and Clarence Lamont. Politically he is a Republican and has served as member of
  the town council, and school director, and is treasurer of the borough. In
  religious belief he and his family are adherents of the Methodist Church. He is
  a member and past master of Sullivan Lodge, No. 522, I. O. O. F.; and a member
  of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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