Charles Willet Miller

Male 1844 - 1920  (75 years)


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  • Name Charles Willet Miller 
    Born 20 Nov 1844  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 1 Oct 1920  Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I3337  Kreider Moyer
    Last Modified 5 Jan 2024 

    Father Stephen Hahn Miller,   b. 1819,   d. 1891  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Lavina Kline,   b. 21 Jul 1813, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1883  (Age 70 years) 
    Family ID F1284  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Cora Lavinia Eshleman,   b. 11 Apr 1847, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Aug 1913, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 11 Oct 1866  [1
    Last Modified 5 Jan 2024 
    Family ID F1308  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 20 Nov 1844 - Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 1 Oct 1920 - Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Son of Stephen H Miller & Lavina Kline, he married Cora L. Eschleman on 11 Oct 1866.

      They were the parents of the following children:
      Annie
      Vida
      Charles W
      Frank E
      Stephen
      Gertrude
      Cora

      He was an attorney at law when he died at age 75 of a strangulated hernia. [1]
    • CHARLES W. MILLER, attorney, Bloomsburg, was born at Mifflinville November 20, 1844, a son of Stephen H. and Lavina (Kline) Miller. He graduated at the State normal school, Millersville, and registered in the office of William G. Hurley, of Bloomsburg, as a law student, in 1865; in 1867 was admitted to the bar, and the same year began to practice at Bloomsburg. He is a Democrat, politically, and has served Bloomsburg in the council and school board. In addition to his legal business, Mr. Miller has been identified with the various improvements in the place, one of the organizers of the Water, Gas & Steam Company, and School-Desk Company. He is secretary of the Gas Company and also a member of the Board of Trade. Mr. Miller married Miss Cora L. Eshleman, of Schuylkill County. He is a member of the Knight Templars; F. & A. M.; I. O. O. F., and of the Presbyterian Church. He is also a member of the board of directors of the State normal school and has been for twelve or fifteen years and was largely instrumental in securing the sewage and telephone system to Bloomsburg.

      His grandfather, Isaac Kline, was an early settler of Columbia County; was a prominent man and served in the Pennsylvania Legislature; his son, Hiram R. Kline, was also a member of the Legislature. Abraham and Anna Charity (Kramer) Kline, the great-grandparents of Mr. J Miller, lived to be upward of ninety years of age.
      They came from New Jersey up the West Branch to Milton, and then cut their way to the end of Knob Mountain. They had five sons and one daughter, and settled two miles north of Orangeville on the left; bank of Fishing creek, where they built a frame house, which was occupied by three generations of their descendants, and is still standing.
      Their younger son, Isaac, the grandfather of Mr. Miller, married Mary Willitt, whose mother's maiden name was Britton. Mr. and Mrs. Kline had seven daughters and three sons, all of whom married and lived to middle age. Lavina married Stephen H. Miller, and they became the parents of our subject. Elmira married M. C. Vance, whose grand-parents, George and Martha Vance, came from Donegal, Ireland in 1804, and settled in Bloomsburg, and later moved to the banks of Fishing creek west of Orangeville.
      John Vance, their eldest son, married Effie Patterson, whose parents came from Scot-Land about 1800. George Vance erected a house that is now occupied by M. C. Vance, the third generation. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S38] Find A Grave database.

    2. [S7] History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennslvania, Battle, J. H., (A. Warner & Co., 1887).