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Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.


     JOHN G. MILLER, of the firm of Miller & Reed livery and transfer business, Wenatchee, Chelan county, is a native of Pennsylvania.  He was born in Schuylkill county, June 2, 1866.  His father, Peter Miller, a German, came to the United States in 1848, and settled in Pennsylvania where he engaged in the coal mining business.  He at present lives with another son near Wenatchee.  The mother, Theresa (Schuster) Miller, also a native of Germany, died in Minnesota in 1895.
     Minnesota was the scene of our subject's earliest exploitations, where he was reared and educated, remaining with his parents until 1887, when he went to South Dakota.  One season there he worked on a farm, subsequently returning home.  He came to Wenatchee in 1889 to visit an uncle at that point, remaining there three months, going thence to Whatcom, Washington.  In May, 1891, he returned to Wenatchee where he has since resided, with the exception of occasional prospecting trips.  He now has mining interests in Peshastin county Washington, principally gold quartz.  Mr. Miller has been engaged in various mercantile enterprises, and has acted in the capacity of clerk in a number of Wenatchee stores.  On March 1, 1903, he associated himself with C. Will Reed in the livery business, which has proved quite a successful venture.  They own twenty head of horses, stable 50x80 feet in size, and run busses to all trains and boats.
     Our subject has three brothers, Joseph, Martin and George, residing near Malaga, engaged in the fruit and stock business.  His three sisters, Anna, Della and Mary, are living in the same vicinity.  He is unmarried.
     Fraternally he is a member of Wenatchee Lodge No. 157, I. 0. 0. F.  Mr. Miller is a popular business man, and one highly esteemed in the neighborhood.