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Born 1872
From History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people (1915)
GEORGE B. MILLER.
George B. Miller is the president of the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company and as such is closely connected with one of the important productive industries of the city. He was born in Waterloo in 1872, a son of George W. Miller, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Black Hawk county when there were only three or four houses in the county seat. He walked the entire distance from Dubuque to this county and after reaching his destination followed the profession of civil engineering, laying out and surveying nearly all of Waterloo and the adjacent territory. He became closely associated with the pioneer development of this section of the state and was a most prominent, valued and influential citizen. After following civil engineering for a time he turned his attention to manufacturing interests and later engaged extensively in real-estate dealing, owning a large amount of property in Waterloo and its vicinity. His judgment was sound and his investments therefore judiciously made, so that he derived a substantial income from his activity in the real-estate field. His death occurred about the year 1897 and in his passing Black Hawk county lost a representative citizen.
George B. Miller was educated in the Waterloo high school and in the State University of Iowa, completing the course in the law department of that institution with the class of 1894. He then practiced law for five years, after which he turned his attention to the manufacture of gasoline engines, in which he was associated with his brother and others, his brother managing the business. In 1899 George B. Miller purchased his brother's and the others' interests in the factory and he has been in active management as president of the company for the past ten years. This is one of the most extensive and most important industries of the city. The main building is one thousand by one hundred and twenty feet, there are two other buildings fifty by one hundred and twenty feet each, and the foundry is one hundred and sixty by six hundred feet. The concern employs on an average seven hundred workmen and the output is extensive. The company manufactures gas engines, traction engines, spreaders, cream separators and a number of smaller articles. The plant is splendidly equipped with all the latest improved machinery and the business is most carefully systematized, so that maximum results are achieved at a minimum expenditure of time, labor and material — which is the source of all business success. Mr. Miller as president of the company is bending his efforts to administrative direction and executive control and his capability in correctly solving intricate business problems is manifest in his efficient management which is bringing to the company a most gratifying and substantial measure of prosperity. He is also interested in other business enterprises of importance in Waterloo and is the secretary of the Leavitt-Johnson- Miller Building Company.
In 1897 was celebrated the marriage of George B. Miller and Miss Myrtle L. Caldweld, a daughter of J. D. Caldweld. They now have one son, De Forrest, who is a high-school student in Waterloo. The parents are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Miller is serving as president of the board of trustees. He is a generous contributor to the support of the church and an active factor in various departments of its work. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree, and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. He likewise has membership with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and the nature of his interests is further indicated in the fact that he has membership in the Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club and the Waterloo Club. His activity in business has not only contributed to his individual success but has also been a factor in the development of the city and he is now accounted one of the foremost residents of Waterloo, controlling one of its most extensive and most important business enterprises.
As printed in History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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