[p. 656] a physician who is in active practice at New Castle and is also proprietor of the Avenue Hotel, was born in this city in 1871, and is a son of the late Joseph D. and Caroline N. (Long) Miller, a daughter of John Long, one of the pioneers of Lawrence County.
Joseph D. Miller was born in 1844, at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and came to New Castle in 1858 and spent the remainder of his life here with the exception of four years during which he operated a hotel at Port Huron Michigan. He was interested in the manufacture of glass at New Castle. In 1905 he took charge of the Avenue Hotel and conducted the same until the time of his death, in June, 1908. He was a stanch Democrat in his political convictions.
Walter E. Miller went from the New Castle public schools to Oberlin College, Ohio, where he was a student for two years and then entered the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in the class of 1894. He immediately located in his native city, where he has practiced his profession ever since. Since the death of his father he has had the management of the Avenue Hotel and he is interested as a stockholder, in a number of the city's successful business enterprises.
Dr. Miller married Miss Katherine Essinger, of Massilon, Ohio. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Association and he belongs to the Elks and to other fraternal organizations.
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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