Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Miller, William C. M.D.
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WILLIAM C. MILLER, M.D., the leading physician and surgeon 
of Hyndman, Pa., and the present Representative from Bedford 
County to the State legislature, was born January 3, 1868, 
in Neosho, Mo., a son of James H. and Eliza (Colvin) Miller.
  James H. Miller was born in Huntingdon County, 
Pennsylvania, where he received the rudiments of his 
education.  In early life he taught school in Schellsburg, 
spending several years in Bedford County.  He served three 
years in the Civil War, being First Lieutenant of Company H, 
Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which formed a 
part of the Army of the Potomac, and with his regiment was 
engaged in many of the important battles of that time.  He 
subsequently became a lawyer, and practised his profession 
for a time in Newton County, Missouri, giving it up to 
accept the agency for the Navajo Indians at Fort Defiance, 
Ariz., a position to which he was appointed by President 
Grant.  On June 2, 1874, he was killed, losing his life 
while a comparatively young man through the treachery of the 
Indians.  His wife, formerly Eliza Colvin, of Bedford 
County, is now living in Schellsburg, Pa.
  William C. Miller was but four years of age when he came 
with his widowed mother to her former home at Schellsburg, 
Pa., in whose public schools he received his first knowledge 
of books. He afterward continued his studies at Woodbury, a 
nearby town, and at an early age entered Lafayette College, 
at Easton, Pa., a well-known institution of learning, in 
which he remained two years.  He subsequently attended the 
medical department of the University of Virginia for a year, 
and in 1888 was graduated from the University Medical 
College of New York City.  A few weeks later Dr. Miller 
settled in Chancyville, Pa., where he continued to practice 
a year.  Going thence to Everett, Bedford County, he 
remained there until 1890, when he removed to Hyndman, where 
by his professional skill he has built up an extensive and 
lucrative practice, having won in an eminent degree the 
confidence and good will of the entire community.
  He is a prominent member of the Bedford County Medical 
Society and of the Tri- State Medical Association, and is 
one of the Board of United States Pension Examiners for 
Bedford County.  Fraternally, he belongs to Hyndman Lodge, 
No. 589, F. & A.M., of which he is Past Master; to the Odd 
Fellows Lodge, of Everett, Pa.; and to the Knights of 
Pythias at Hyndman.  Politically, he is identified with the 
Republican party, which in November, 1898, elected him to 
the State legislature.  While living in Everett, Pa., Dr. 
Miller married Miss Carrie R., daughter of James A. Sill, 
who was formerly treasurer and commissioner for Bedford 
County.  The Doctor and Mrs. Miller have one child, William 
J. Miller.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa