Carroll Miller and Mary Emma Guffey
Husband Carroll Miller 1 2
Born: 1875 - Richmond, Chesterfield Co, VA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William Gardner Miller ( - ) 2 Mother: Emma Haseltine Wigelsworth ( - ) 2
Marriage: 28 Oct 1902 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
Wife Mary Emma Guffey 1 2
Born: - Guffey Station, Westmoreland Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: "Sheriff" John Guffey (1833-1900) 2 3 4 Mother: Barbaretta Hough ( -1906) 1 2 4
Children
1 M William Gardner Miller III 2
Born: 1905 - Osaka, Japan 5 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M John Guffey Miller 2
Born: 1908 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 5 Christened: Died: Buried: Status: Twin
3 M Carroll Miller, Jr. 2
Born: 1908 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 5 Christened: Died: Buried: Status: Twin
4 M Joseph F. Miller 2
Born: 1912 - Providence, RI 5 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Carroll Miller
He was carefully reared in private schools of his native city, and he spent one year at Richmond College in preparation for Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from which he was graduated in the class of 1896, with the degree of Mechanical Engineer.
After leaving college Mr. Miller was with the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago for a time, and then went to London, England, with Humphreys & Glasgow. He returned to America in 1898, and then became connected with the United Gas Improvement Company, first at Fall River, Massachusetts, and then in Newark, New Jersey. In 1901, he went to Chicago as a consulting engineer, and in that capacity made several trips to Japan building and establishing the Osaka Gas Company. In 1907 he returned to the United States and opened an office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1909 he went to Providence, Rhode Island, as engineer of the Providence Gas Company. In 1914, he went to Aurora, Illinois, as general manager of the Western United Gas and Electric Company. In 1918, he came to Pittsburgh as general manager of the Philadelphia Company. In 1919 he resigned that position in order to engage in the oil, gas and carbon business. He had numerous vested interests, and among them was vice-president of the Thermatomic Carbon Company, whose offices were at No. 108 Ferry Street, Pittsburgh.
He was a member of the American Gas Association, New England Association of Gas Engineers, the Guild of Gas Managers, the Society of Gas Lighting, the Natural Gas Association, the American Mining Congress, the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh. He belonged to the Beta Theta Pi and the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. His clubs were the Pittsburgh, Duquesne, and University of Pittsburgh, the Engineers of New York and the University of Providence, Rhode Island. He attended the Protestant Episcopal Church. Although a Democrat in his political faith, he did not aspire to public office.
For some years Mr. Miller lived on a farm in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, with his family, during the summer, and there took a lively interest in raising fine stock and poultry. It was known as "Wolf Creek Farm", so named because a large part of the property was encircled by the well-known stream of that name.
An expert on gas production, and plant construction, he executed important missions in Europe and the Orient, and in the United States his reputation as a mechanical engineer, with special reference to the gas industry, was second to none. The oil and carbon business also claimed a large proportion of his trained application. Recognition of his high station in the gas world was accorded him from three continents, and his knowledge of the subject found expression, in part, in cordially accepted articles prepared for deliverance before gas associations, and which appeared in journals devoted to the gas industry.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Emma Guffey
She attended the public schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and was prepared for college at the Alinda Preparatory School of Pittsburgh. She entered Bryn Mawr College, from which she was graduated in the class of 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After she left college she taught for one year, and then made an extensive tour of Japan and China. It was during her stay in the Orient that she met Mr. Miller, who was in Japan executing a commission as engineer for the Osaka Gas Company, an important corporation organized for the purpose of supplying the city of Osaka with gas for illumination and manufactories. Following their marriage in Pittsburgh, in 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Miller returned to Japan, in 1904, and remained in that country for three years. Their eldest son was born in Osaka in 1905, and after their return to the United States, in 1908, twin sons arrived at their Pittsburgh home, and after their removal to Providence, Rhode Island, a fourth son was born in 1912.
Despite the coming of the children to the family circle, Mrs. Miller maintained her close touch with people and their affairs, since she was a firm believer in the truth that a mother to be successful as such in the performance of her exacting duties, must have more than a cursory knowledge of conditions as they exist outside the home. While living in Rhode Island she espoused the cause of woman suffrage, and became an ardent worker in that progressive movement. She also was a member of the legislative committee of the Consumers League, and in that capacity was actively engaged in the bringing about of the passage of laws alleviating the working conditions of women and children. Upon the removal of the family to Aurora, Illinois, in 1915, Mrs. Miller entered with great zeal the work of the Parent-Teacher movement in the public schools. During the World War she did her bit as a member of the Navy League.
On the return of the family to Pittsburgh, in 1918, she rose to local prominence as an intelligent and indefatigable worker in the Democratic Party and as an after-dinner and campaign speaker. She was also in great demand as a speaker on historical and other subjects of intimate interest to the people. She was made vice-chairman of her ward organization in Pittsburgh, and her activities soon found expression as a member of state and county committees of her party. Her crowning achievement, at that time, came when she was chosen to participate in the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention in the historic Madison Square Garden, New York City. She was a conspicuous and inspiring figure in that gathering, and her championship of the candidacy of Governor Smith for the presidential nomination was one of the principal features of the convention. Her keynote of religious tolerance, sounded on the issue of so-called bigotry in the clogging of the convention machinery, struck a sympathetic chord with a large body of the delegates and with the campaign managers, who had the speech printed for use as a forceful argument in favor of the party's candidate. When she herself was made the recipient of a vote for President in the making of nominations, she was accorded the premier honor of being the first woman to be thus distinguished since women were granted the franchise. While the convention was in session the newspapers of the metropolis did their part well, spreading throughout the country reviews of Mrs. Miller's career and printing her photograph. From that time she was a national figure in the councils of the Democratic Party.
Mrs. Miller's social alliances were numerous and of consequence. She was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society, historian of Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and was a member of the College Club, Twentieth Century Club, Congress of Clubs, City Club of Pittsburgh, and the Embassy Club of New York. She was reared under the Calvinistic influence of the Presbyterian faith, but became an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Her religious views in later years, took on an elastic quality, which by some would have been termed liberal and by others the "modernist" type.
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 340.
2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 139.
3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 338.
4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1234.
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George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 140.
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