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C.E. Miller
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C. E. MILLER, shoe merchant at Butler, conducting a large business with well appointed quarters at No. 215 South Main Street, has been a resident of this city for
twenty-two years and in that time has built up a business that covers the whole county. He was born March 17, 1867, in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, but was taken by his parents to Armstrong County when a child. Mr. Miller attended school in the country near his father's farm and later took a commercial course in Duff's Business College at Pittsburg, where he was graduated in 1887. He gained his first experience in the shoe trade as a clerk in John Bickel's store at Butler, where he remained three years, after which he was with B. Hinnnelrich & Co., at Pittsburg, for more than a year, after that taking charge of the shoe department in a store at New Kensington, where he continued until 1893. Mr. Miller settled then at Butler, where he put in a good shoe stock, not more however than he, with the assistance of one clerk, could manage, and from that beginning the business has expanded until he now has the largest shoe store in the city and the biggest trade in his line in the county. He requires nine assistants and employs three wrapping girls and keeps three shoemakers busy. Honest goods and fair dealing have been Mr. Miller's assets, and their worth has been appreciated. In addition to this business, Mr. Miller is interested in oil production and is a stockholder in two banks. In politics, Mr. Miller is affiliated with the Republican party. Fraternally he belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Elks, and socially is a member of the Sterling Club. Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 625-626. |
