California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


HENRY C. MILLER.� A veteran of the Civil War, Henry C. Miller 
was born at Upton, Worcester County, Mass., September 10, 1841, removing 
with his parents to Monroe, Greene County, Wis., in 1855. He received a 
good education in the public schools of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, 
and in September, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifth Wisconsin Light Artillery, 
McKnights Battery, serving under General Pope, then under General Rosen- 
cranz until he was honorably discharged August 11, 1862, when he returned 
home. He then became associated with his father, Levi B. Miller, in the 
mercantile business in Monroe. They had a tannery, manufactured leather 
which in turn they manufactured into boots and shoes and had a retail shoe 
store. Afterward Henry Miller attended Oberlin College and there learned 
the hook-binding business, becoming the foreman of the book-binding de- 
partment of the Adventist Publishing House in Battle Creek, Mich., a posi- 
tion he filled for a period of eleven years resigning to engage in business for 
himself, having his own book-binding establishment in Battle Creek until 
1890 when he sold out and located in Burrough Valley, Fresno County, and 
where he owns fifty acres devoted to farming and raising fruits. 

In Battle Creek, Mr. Miller was married to Martha A. Baker, who was 
born in Plattsburg, N. Y., and they had five children: William H., died in 
1911; George resides in Glendale ; Edith is Mrs. Law, a missionary to Nan- 
king. China; Jesse O. is operating the home place; and Letha, is Mrs. Mitch- 
ell of Marysville, Cal. ; Jesse Orlo, who is in charge of the home farm, was 
born in Battle Creek, Mich., July 12. 1879. coining to California in 1890. He 
finished his education at Healdsburg College. In 1898 he enlisted in the 
United States Navy for service in the Spanish-American War for four years, 
serving on the U. S. S. Solace, then U. S. S. Don Juan de Austria, and was 
afterward transferred to the U. S. S. Helena, and then to the U. S. S. Oregon 
and again back to the Helena, and from that to the U. S. S. New Orleans on 
which he returned to San Francisco and was honorably discharged in 1902. 
During his service he was in the Hospital Corps of the United States Navy. 
For a time he was employed with the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company as a 
nurse in their hospital, but finally gave it up to engage in farming. He has 
a homestead of 320 acres in Burrough Valley and is also operating his 
father's farm, is intensely interested in stock-raising and is gradually build- 
ing up a high grade herd of Herfords. Henry C. Miller is a member of the 
Seventh Day Adventist Church. In politics, he is an Independent.