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GEORGE MILLER, tube-welder, McKeesport, was born in New York city, Sept. 16, 1844, a son of Nathaniel and Jane (Smullen) Miller, natives, respectively, of England and Ireland. He was reared in his native city and Butler county, Pa., and received a limited education in the common schools. During the civil war he served nine months in Co. K, 134th P. V. I., and two years in Co. H, 102d P. V. I.; was wounded in the left hip at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., and honorably discharged at the close of the war. In 1868 he located in Pittsburgh, and learned the tube-welder’s trade. He came to McKeesport in 1875, where he has since resided, employed in the welding department of the National Tube-works, and is one of the first-class workmen in that department. He married, in August, 1866, Sarah J., daughter of William J. and Mary (Aker) Campbell, of Butler county, Pa., and by her has had nine children: Mary (Mrs. Frank Wheeler), John (deceased), William, Jennie, Emma, Grace, Ada, George (deceased) and Frank. Mr. Miller is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of the A. O. K. of M. C., K. of P. and I. O. H. He is a republican.