[p. 990] member of the prominent general contracting firm of J. H. & M. E. Miller, at New Castle, is one of the city's old and reliable business men and representative citizens. He was born in 1849, in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of the late John E. Miller.
John E. Miller was born in 1813 in North Beaver Township, where his father, Robert Miller was one of the very earliest settlers. Both became large landowners and extensive farmers.
J. H. Miller was educated in the country schools and at New Castle and during early manhood he taught school, in all about thirteen years. In the meanwhile he prepared himself for work as a civil engineer, and from 1886 until 1895 he was city engineer of New Castle. From this city he went to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was employed with the late Colonel George E. Waring in engineering work during one summer, after which he was engaged by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as resident engineer in charge of the construction of the round house and shops at New Castle Junction, which contract required two years. Since the completion of that work he has continued as a general contractor, doing paving and sewer work, and his time has been fully taken up with contracts of every kind. Mr. Miller built the first section of macadamized road in Lawrence County, since then doing a large amount of the same work together with paving, which during the last two years aggregated each 2,000,000 brick. His prosperous outlook promises that his firm will exceed this limit in the coming year. The thoroughness of this firm's work has been fully tested and found altogether satisfactory. Mr. Miller holds to the old-time honesty of his profession and reaps his reward in the confidence placed in him by his fellow citizens.
In 1884 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Nancy Stunkard, of Hickory Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Olive. Mr. and Mrs. Miller attend the Second United Presbyterian Church at New Castle. In politics he is a Democrat and he takes a good citizen's interest in public matters.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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