Hon. Samuel H. Miller and Elizabeth Rogers

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Husband Hon. Samuel H. Miller ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Apr 1840 - Coolspring Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Miller (      -Bef 1888) 2 3
         Mother: Nancy Rambell (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1866 4

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   Other Spouse: Annette D. Zahn (      -      ) 4 - 8 Aug 1906 - Girard, Erie Co, PA 4

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Wife Elizabeth Rogers ⁴

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         Father: James P. Rogers (      -1883) 5
         Mother: Margaret H. Foster (1809-Aft 1888) 5

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Children

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1 F Marian Miller ⁶

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         Spouse: Lyle W. Orr (1867-      ) 4 7 8
           Marr: 1893 6

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2 M W. R. Miller ⁴

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3 F [Unk] Miller

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         Spouse: H. O. White (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Samuel H. Miller

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He attended the common schools of his native township until he was twelve years of age, when he entered Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, from which institution he was graduated in 1860. He became the owner of the Mercer Dispatch in 1862, and edited and published that journal until 1870. He read law with Hon. Samuel Griffith, and was admitted to the Mercer bar in the fall of 1870. He at once entered upon the practice of his chosen pro-fession. He was elected in 1880 as Congressman for the Twenty-sixth Penn-sylvania District, composed of Mercer, Butler and Crawford Counties, and served in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eight Congresses, from 1881 to March 4, 1885. [HMC 1888, 686]

Giving early evidence of a brilliant mind, he eagerly seized the educational opportunities offered by the schools of Cool Spring Township and Mercer. He continued his education at Westminster College, from which he graduated in 1860. His business career began with the publication of a Republican newspaper in Mercer, which he edited from 1862 to 1870. During this period he was quietly preparing himself for the profession of law, and he was admitted to Mercer County bar in 1870. He represented Mercer, Crawford, and Butler counties in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth congresses. In 1894 he was elected judge of the Thirty-fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and served until 1905. Next he was unanimously nominated and elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, to which he would doubtless have been reelected but for his refusal to accept the nomination on account of ill health. During all these years, except when he was thus serving the public in office, he was practising law. In his busy life he found time to act as president of the Mercer County Trust Company, as director in the First National Bank of Mercer, as president of the water company and a director of the gas company. He was a trustee of Polk Institute, and of Grove City College, from which he received a degree. He was a Mason, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. To the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member and member of the session, his long service as trustee was a constant source of strength.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 686, 967.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 39.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 967.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 40.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 252.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 534.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 690.

8 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 533.