BIO:  George F. Miller, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 179

GEORGE F. MILLER, son of Samuel and Mary (Fishel) Miller, of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, respectively, was born in Shrewsbury Township December 19, 1843.  He was 
the second son and fifth child in a family of eight children, and was reared on the 
farm, receiving a common school education.  He taught school one winter, and then 
engaged in droving and butchering, which he followed up to 1883.  January 10, 1867, 
he was married, at Shrewsbury, to Leah Koller, daughter of J. P. Koller, of that 
place, and had eight children:  Ida, Clinton, Elsie, Harvey, John, Luly, Samuel and 
Mary.  In 1871 he removed to Maryland, where he carried on the butchering and 
droving.  In 1882 he purchased a tract of land, heavily timbered, near New Freedom, 
on which he erected a steam saw-mill, and converted the timber into lumber, 
employing from eight to fifteen men.  Mr. Miller belongs to the Evangelical 
Association, is a Granger, and for ten years was a school trustee in Maryland.  His 
father still lives in Shrewsbury Township, aged seventy years, and his mother sixty-
five years.  He is a trustee of the church, an active worker and exhorter, and has 
been superintendent of Ruhl’s Sabbath-school for eight years.  He is still living in 
Baltimore County, Md., but keeps part of his family in York County, at the saw-mill, 
where he keeps a boarding house for the hands.  His eldest daughter, now sixteen, 
attends to the work here.