20th Century History of New Castle and
Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens

M. E. MILLER,

[p. 989] member of the firm of J. H. & M. E. Miller, general contractors in paving and sewer building, is one of New Castle's most highly esteemed citizens and representative business men. He was born in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1858, and is a son of John E. Miller.

John E. Miller, father of the brothers who make up the above firm, was born in 1813, in Lawrence County, where his father, Robert Miller, was a pioneer settler. For years the Millers have been representative people in the county, their women noted for their virtue and thrift and their men for sterling integrity and good citizenship.

M. E. Miller was reared on a farm and obtained his education in the country schools near his home. When twenty-two years of age he came to New Castle, where he worked in lumber yards for three years, and then turned his attention to civil engineer work, forming a partnership with his brother, J. H. Miller, and continued in the same until 1902, when the general contracting business was started. New Castle owes much of its beauty and utility to the fine paving and sewer work done by the firm of J. H. & M. E. Miller, work that has caused favorable comment from all those having a knowledge of what is being done in this line in other cities. Among the big contracts that the firm at present has on hand is the paving and sewer work for the Pennsylvania Railroad at New Brighton.

In 1888 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Rilla M. Fullerton, who was born and reared at New Castle and is a daughter of the late John Fullerton.

Mr. Miller is a member of the First United Presbyterian Church at New Castle and is a member of its board of elders. He belongs to the beneficiary order of the Protected Home Circle.


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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