Kings County Biographies

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler


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WILLIAM H. MILLER, M. D.
 
Dr. Miller was educated in the common schools near his birthplace in Illinois 
and at Auburn, Ind., and was graduated from the medical department of the 
University of Illinois with the M. D. degree in 1886. After a year's practice in 
Chicago he went to Dakota, where he remained two years, until he came to 
California. He opened an office in Hanford in 1889 and has since built up a very 
successful general practice. He served as health officer of the city, and was 
surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad until he resigned because of the 
demands of his private practice. As a member of the California State Medical 
Society and through other affiliations he keeps in touch with the profession.
Inclination has led Dr. Miller to take an interest in ranching and in dairying, 
and during the past seven years he has developed thirty-five acres, six miles 
south of Hanford, into one of the most attractive homesteads in this part of the 
county. He has three hundred and twenty acres also on Mill creek, east and south 
of Hanford, between that city and Tulare, which is devoted to dairy purposes. It 
is irrigated by means of a twenty horsepower electric motor and two ten-inch 
wells which produce fifteen hundred gallons of water per minute. One hundred and 
sixty acres of the property is under alfalfa, and the rest is given over to 
grain. He has a dairy of forty-five Holstein cows. All in all, this is one of 
the best properties of its kind in the vicinity. Too busy otherwise to give 
personal attention to its management, he leases it on shares. His house in 
Hanford, which he erected in 1901 with a view to making it a suitable residence 
for this climate, is one of the model homes of that city. It is of brick, with 
double walls, separated by open spaces, and is surrounded by beautiful park-like 
grounds in which he has planted many trees.
Fraternally Dr. Miller affiliates with the Woodmen of the World, being a member 
of the Hanford lodge of that order. In a public-spirited way he has been a 
factor in the building up of the town, whose citizens recognize in him one 
willing, so far as he is able, to contribute to the general good.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp.  882-883