Marion County, West Virginia          Biography of George Robert MILLER, M.D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume ll.
pg. 120


George Robert Miller, M.D.  The community of Fairview, Marion County, 
expresses its appreciation of Doctor Miller not only by saying that he 
is the oldest physican in the town in point of years of service, but 
likewise has special qualifications for his profession and is never 
behind in the exercise of public spirit when something needs to be 
done requiring the co-operation of all local citizens.

Doctor Miller after completing his medical education returned to what 
is practically his home neighborhood. He was born on a farm in Lincoln 
District, about six miles from Fairview, on December 34, 1871, and except
when away to school has kept quite constantly in touch with old friends
and neighbors there, His father, a son of John Miller, was born on a farm 
at Boothsville in Marion County in 1838 and the duties of agriculture 
engaged him until his death in 1873. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Mary Prichard Miller, mother of Doctor Miller, was born
on the old Prichard homestead in Lincoln District in 1841, daughter of
John Prichard and representative of a pioneer family. She died in 1912.

George Robert Miller, was only two years old when his father died. He 
spent his boyhood on the farm, alternating between his duties and his 
lessons in the district schools. For three years he supplemented this 
early education in the Fairmont State Normal School. Teaching was his 
first active service for humanity, and the five years he worked in the
district schools of his home county  also furbished him part of the
capital needed to gain his medical education.

While teaching, he likewise carried private studies that furnished the 
equivalent of preparatory work for college. Doctor Miller graduated M.D.
from the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati in 1901. Following a year
of practice at Blacksville, West Virginia, he returned to his home district,
and his continued work here, besides being highly successful, has made him 
the oldest physican in years of practice at Fairview.

He keeps in touch with his profession through membership in the Marion County,
West Virginia State and American Medical Associations and also in the National
EcLectic Medical Association. His public spirit has led him to assume the 
responsibility of service on the town council. He is a thirty-second Degree 
Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Masonic Club of Fairview, the Knight of
Pythias, and on the Board of Trustees of the Fairview Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1900 Doctor Miller married Harriett Phillips, a native of Greene County, 
Pennsylvania, and daughter of Lindsey and Ellen (Fordyce) Phillips. Doctor 
and Mrs. Miller have three sons and a daughter: Thomas Bryon, born in 1902,
now a high school student; Aldene, born in 1903, now teaching in the public
schools of Granttown; George Robert Jr., born in 1906, in high school; and 
William Edward, born in 1910.