BIOS: Karl Albert MILLER, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 274

Karl Albert MILLER.

Karl Albert Miller, a prominent business man of Meyersdale, Somerset county, 
Pennsylvania, was born in Northampton township, June 13, 1876, son of John H. 
and Mary A. (Trimpse) Miller, and grandson of Henry W. and Anna (Reuker) Miller. 
Henry W. Miller was a native of Anersbach, Germany, and came to this country 
when a young man.  He married Anna Reuker, of Anersbach, and they had two 
children; Henry W. and Anna B.
Henry W. Miller (father) was born in Northampton township, Somerset county, July 
16, 1853, and was for many years a merchant of Johnsburg.  He was a justice of 
the peace of Northampton township for twenty-five years, and was for the same 
period of time school director and postmaster of Johnsburg.  He married, in 
1873, Mary A. Trimpse, a daughter of John B. Trimpse, of Oldenburg, Germany. 
Their children: Matilda, Karl Albert, of whom later; William H., Frank B., 
Irving C., Clarence G., Emma E., and Walter G.
Karl Albert Miller obtained his initial education in the common schools of his 
native place, and later spent two years in the University of Pennsylvania.  He 
taught school in Southampton township, Mountain school, Elk Lick, Meyersdale, 
and Northampton township.  He took a one year course in Pierce's Business 
College at Philadelphia, and there laid an excellent foundation for a future 
business career.  From 1902 until 1904 he had charge of the department of 
mathematics in the Meyersdale high school, and then associated himself in the 
grocery business with Mr. J. H. Pfaler.  October 15, 1904, he discontinued this 
connection and started in business on his own account, in which he has since 
been very successfully and profitably engaged.  He is also interested in various 
other enterprises, among them being the Second National Bank of Meyersdale and 
the Meyersdale Sheet Steel Company.  He is a Republican in politics, and in 
church connectins a Lutheran.  Fraternally he is a member of the F. and A. M., 
No. 554; Hebron, No. 272.
He married, May 18, 1904, Edna, a daughter of Edgar Kyle, ex-sheriff of 
Meyersdale.  One child, John Kyle, born May 5, 1905.