BIO: J. S. 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, York Borough, Pg 36

J. S. MILLER, M. D., is a native of Hopewell Township, York County, where he was 
born in 1856.  His parents are David and Sarah (Winemiller) Miller, both natives 
of Hopewell Township, and descendants of old families of the county.  The father 
of our subject is a farmer, and his earlier years were passed as an assistant 
upon the old homestead.  He received a good education attending the Stewartstown 
Academy, and the York Collegiate Institute.  In 1876 he began the study of 
medicine, reading with Dr. Thomas M. Curran, of Cross Roads, York County.  He 
remained with his preceptor until 1880, in which year he graduated from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore.  He immediately located in 
Paradise, Springfield Township, where he practiced three years, subsequently 
traveling for six months, through the Middle and Western States.  He then 
entered John Hopkins University at Baltimore, as a student in biology and 
chemistry.  While in Baltimore he also took a special course under Dr. Clinton 
McSherry, on diseases of the heart, throat and lungs.  Dr. Miller located in 
York in July, 1884, where he is earnestly engaged in practice.  He is devoted to 
his profession, is a close student and a worthy young man.