Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Miller, James Sullivan April 10, 1833

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JAMES SULLIVAN MILLER, M. D., was a resident of Derry and a physician of
thirty-five years continuous and successful practice.

    He was a son of Dr. M. L. and Hannah (Simpson) Miller and was born at
Perryopolis, Indiana county, Pa., April 10, 1833. His paternal grandparents came
from Ireland and settled in this State during the first half of the present
century. His father, Dr. M. L. Miller, read medicine and engaged in active
practice about 1828. He met with good success at the different points at which
he located. After sixty years of continuous practice he retired from his chosen
profession and is passing the evening of a well-spent life at Blairsville, Pa.
He married Hannah Simpson and reared a family.

    Dr. James S. Miller attended the common schools and in 1847 entered Elders
Ridge academy, from which excellent educational institution he was graduated in
1849. He read medicine with his father, attended lectures at Jefferson Medical
college, Philadelphia, and was graduated from that celebrated institution March
10, 1855. After graduation he located at New Derry, where he practiced
continuously until 1884. In that year he removed to Derry station on the
Pennsylvania railroad, where he remained in the active practice of his
profession until his death in 1890.

    In 1855 Dr. Miller united in marriage with Emily J. Spicer of Akron, Ohio.
To their union were born six children: of these are  Rev. Charles M., who
graduated at Allegheny college, spent four years in India, where he had charge
of the Seamen’s Home in Calcutta and performed other missionary work under the
auspices of a Board of Missions, and is now the popular and able pastor of
Trinity M. E. church, Pittsburg, Pa.; Harry M., Laura L., Noble J., who died at
three years of age, and Frank W. Mrs. Miller is a daughter of Minor and Doranda
Spicer, who were natives of Connecticut and removed to Ohio, where the former
died about 1890 and the latter passed away in 1869.

   Dr. J. S. Miller was successful in his career as a physician, had a large
practice and was surgeon for one division of the Pennsylvania Central railroad.

   On Monday, April 7, 1890, the inhabitants of Derry were surprised and shocked
to hear that Dr. James S. Miller had suddenly died that day about 3 o’clock in
the afternoon, His loss was deeply felt by a wide circle of sorrowing friends
and the surrounding community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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