GEORGE E. MILLER

Source: The History of West Virginia, Old and New
	Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
	Chicago and New York, Volume III

pg. 145
Kanawha
GEORGE E. MILLER, a resident of Charleston, came to
West Virginia over twenty years ago, bringing with him
a long and thorough experience in the oil industry, and in
this state he has had a prominent share in the oil and gas
production in the various fields.

Mr. Miller was born at Spartansburg, Crawford County,
Pennsylvania, in the very heart of the original oil fields
of America. His boyhood was spent in the atmosphere of
oil production, and from that environment he undoubtedly
discovered what has been his main business in life. As a
boy he learned telegraphy. He was appointed agent and
telegraph operator at Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, in the
heart of the old oil fields. Petroleum Center was a famous
oil town and a large one in its early days, though now
hardly anything remains to show its former glory. After
two years as agent for the railway company there he entered
the service of the National Transit Company on a pump
station in Clarion County. From there he came to West
Virginia in 1900, and since then has been continuously en-
gaged in the oil industry here.

His first location was at Fairview in Marion County,
where he was associated with the South Penn Oil Company
of Pittsburgh. He was with that corporation ten years, and
then engaged in the oil and gas business for himself. While
his interests have included oil and gas production, for a
number of years his chief activities have been the handling
of royalties and oil and gas leases in the West Virginia
field. He established his home in Charleston in 1916. He
and his family have become prominent members of the
social and business interests of the capital city. He is
public spirited in all his attitudes and relationship and is a
member of the Kiwanis Club, a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Bite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner.

Mr. Miller married Miss Cordelia Griffith, of Maryland.
Their two children are George E., Jr., and Miss Ruth.
George E. Miller, Jr., is a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin and is now an engineer with the State Road
Commission of West Virginia. Ruth is a graduate of the
New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, and is now
instructor in music at Coker College, Huntsville, South
Carolina.

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