Charles W. Miller    

HON. CHARLES W. MILLER, merchant, Meadville, was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1837, and is a son of Ezra B. and Sophronia M. (Baldwin) Miller, natives of Connecticut, and of English descent; the former a carpenter and joiner by trade. They had three children, of whom Charles W. is the second. Our subject received his education chiefly at the academy at Orwell, Ohio. Early in life he was a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1869 he opened a general store in Espyville, Penn., which he continued until 1870, when’ he came to Meadville as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, which position he held four years, when he embarked in the drug business, in which he has since continued. He was married, in Espyville in 1862, to Mary E., daughter of James Espy, from whom Espyville took its name. They have three children now living: Agnes, Nettie and Marion. Mr. Miller is a Republican, and in 1884 received the nomination of that party for Congress. He has been a member of the Meadville Town Council for three years, and for two years Mayor of Meadville.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 753-754. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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