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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [250-251]

               HENRY L. MILLER, whose parents were natives of Bavaria,
            Germany, was born at Buffalo, March 12, 1836. He is one of the
            pioneer engineers of Buffalo harbor, having thirty-four issues
            of license, and, like the average German-American, his life and
	    habits have been very steady, so that today, although at the
	    age when most men retire from daily labor, he is still able and
	    hearty enough not to give that question any  serious attention.
	       MR. MILLER obtained all the schooling it was his privilege
	    to enjoy before the age of twelve, for at that time he com-
	    menced work for a DR. NEUMAN as office boy, remaining there
	    about two years. He then engaged with GEORGE W. REES as a
	    printer's "devil," which employment he tired of after a year,
	    when he went to work running a small engine for a whip
	    manufacturing concern, being so employed about another
	    year. When about seventeen he began his sailing career as
	    porter on the Queen of the Lakes and Mount Vernon, remaining on
	    each a season. He then went into DAVID BELL's machine shop to
	    learn the machinist's trade, which he did in the course of
	    three years, continuing in the same place as a journeyman for
	    another year and a half. Next we find him filling the berth of
	    second engineer of the City of Buffalo for the season of 1860,
	    and during one year of the war he was on the supply boat A. C.
	    Steinar as her chief, plying around Virginia and Washington.
	    After this service he again went on the lakes as second of the
	    Neptune for two seasons and the Potomac for three seasons;
	    was then second on the Tonawanda for one season, and the fol-
	    lowing season became her chief, continuing as such until she
	    was sunk off Sturgeon Point, Lake Erie. His next employment was
	    a service of five seasons as chief of the old Mohawk, which
	    burned while laid up in the Erie basin at Buffalo. He was then
	    chief of the Oneida for two seasons and the Annie Young for
	    the three succeeding seasons, after which he fitted and brought
	    out new the steamer Lycoming, running her three seasons, which
	    (in 1885) closed his experience on the lakes. Having accepted
	    the position of chief engineer of Weyand's brewery, he remained
	    there about four years and then embarked in the tailoring
	    business with his son, a year later engaging with the Case &
	    Bayne Refrigerator Co., for whom he put up the sixty-five-ton
	    ice machine in Lang's brewery. At this time he went to Cleve-
	    land and put in three machines, and to Erie, Penn., where he
	    remained a year, running two refrigerating machines. Returning
	    to Buffalo he ran a like machine for the Empire brewery, re-
	    maining a year with them, and then engaged with the Arctic Ice
	    & Cold Storage Co. to run an ice machine, continuing in that
	    position six months. At the end of that time he accepted his
	    present position as chief engineer of the Clinton Co-operative
	    Brewing Company, which he has since retained.
	       MR. MILLER was married in 1860 to MISS MARY ANNA HUCK, and
	    of the children born to this union the following are living:
	    AUGUST H., senior member of the firm of MILLER & PATRIDGE,
	    prominent tailors, located at No. 60 Main street, Buffalo;
	    JOSEPHINE, wife of F. P. MANHARDT, a printer; HARRY, LOUIS,
	    HARRIET, MAMIE, ELIZABETH and BLANCHE. The family residence is
	    at No. 475 Ellicott street, Buffalo.

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