WI BIO - Dane Co - MILLER, George P.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 587-588

George P. MILLER, president of the Miller Lumber Company, Madison [Dane 
County], Wisconsin, a young man of more than ordinary business ability and 
enterprise, was born in Glenbeulah, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, 18 February 
1868, son of Philip and Mary Josephine (DOHOGNE) MILLER. His father, a 
native of Germany, came to America when only a year old, and his mother, who 
was born in Marseilles, France, came to this country at the age of twenty 
years. They were early settlers of Milwaukee, Grandfather MILLER at one time 
having owned the greater part of the present site of that city. Philip 
MILLER was a lumberman and merchant. He and his wife had three children, two 
sons and a daughter. William Joseph is engaged in farming at Austin [Mower 
County], Minnesota. Marion is the wife of E. H. STERLING, is also a resident 
of Austin. The parents reside there too.

George P. MILLER received his early education in the public schools of his 
native city. He graduated in the high school at Sheboygan Falls [Sheboygan 
County, WI] in 1882, and then, at the age of fourteen, entered Ripon College. 
In 1884 he left college and taught school one year at Waldo [Sheboygan 
County], Wisconsin. He afterward returned and completed his junior year in 
the modern classical course. This was in 1887. Then he was employed as 
traveling salesman for Radford Brothers & Company, of Oshkosh [Winnebago 
County], Wisconsin, selling lumber, sash, doors and blinds, [p 588] and 
followed this business two years and a half, the last year being located at 
Wichita [Sedgwick County], Kansas, as manager of a branch house. After that 
he went to Stevens Point [Portage County], WI, and purchased a third interest 
in the Keller Lumber Company, and was made vice president of the same. The 
business of the company was afterward moved to Rhinelander [Oneida County], 
Wisconsin, and in April 1892, he severed his relation with it. Immediately 
thereafter he organized the Miller Lumber Company, of which he was made 
president, and which is now doing a wholesale business throughout the North 
and West.

George P. MILLER was married 11 January 1892, to Anna LEE, of Waupaca 
[Waupaca County], Wisconsin. She was born in England, and remained there 
until her eighteenth year. Mr. MILLER affiliates with the Republican party.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly