H. J. MILLER

MILLER, RAY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/19/2017 at 22:02:39

H. J. Miller is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born in Philadelphia in 1840 and received his education in the public schools of that city. When eighteen years of age, he started out to "see the world," as he puts it, traveling in Ohio and Kentucky. In 1870 he went to Colorado, where he engaged in plumbing and gas fitting for a business. Soon after, he received an appointment as mail agent, and subsequently was transferred to Iowa, to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, & Northern railway line, where he remained until 1881, and then engaged in the hardware business at Dows, under the firm name of Fisher & Co. He was married in 1870, to Anna M. Ray, who was born in Wisconsin in 1848. They have two children — Howard R. and Walter. H J. Mr. Miller is a member of the Masonic fraternity at Dows, of which he is worthy master.

History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa; Springfield, Ill. Union Publishing Co., 1883, Chapter 26, page 476.