BIOGRAPHIES:   William G. MILLER, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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William G. Miller, president and treasurer of the Miller, Olcott Lumber Co.,
owning a chain of lumber yards, with headquarters at Cumberland, was born at
Montrose, Minn., June 1, 1878, son of John F. and Catherine (Huser) Miller,
who brought him to Cumberland when he was two years old. He was educated in
the graded schools and in the high school, from which he was graduated in
1898. With this preparation he worked some two years for the company store of
the Beaver Dam Lumber Co., of which his father was one of the principal
owners. Then be started in the sawmill of the same company, first acting as
timekeeper, and gradually working his way up to the position of manager and
sales agent of the operating department. The last sawing was in 1910, and the
next year was partly spent in cleaning up and closing out the business. Then
Miller-Olcott Lumber Co., Inc., was organized and took over the retail
business of the Beaver Dam Lumber Co. Mr. Miller has since continued as
president and treasurer, Mr. Olcott as vice-president and H. S. Rose as
secretary. The company yards are located at Cumberland, Comstock, Barronett
and Trego. Mr. Miller has practically been brought up in the lumbering
business, he is a thorough master of all its details, and his experience and
business judgment are important factors in the success with which the company
has met. He stands high in the community, as an honored member of an honored
family, and he is faithfully upholding the family traditions. He has various
business holdings here and elsewhere, including stock in the Miller-Waterman
Mercantile Co., of which he is vice-president, and the Beaver Dam Lumber Co.
For some years he represented his ward on the county board. He is now serving
his community as clerk of the school board. Fraternally, he is a Chapter and a
Blue Lodge Mason and has been through the chairs of Cumberland Lodge, No. 223,
A. F. and A. M. Mr. Miller was married at Grand Forks, N. D., June 6, 1910, 
to Lillian D. McNeel, daughter of Milton and Jeanette (De Lane) McNeel, the
former of whom is a prominent insurance man of Hudson, Wis. Mr. and Mrs.
Miller have two bright children: Jeanette, born March 10, 1916; and
William, born Aug. 28, 1918.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg.  319.