L. D. Miller

As printed in 1915

L. D. MILLER.

L. D. Miller is the secretary and treasurer of the Crystal Ice & Fuel Company and as such occupies a creditable position in the business circles of Waterloo, in which city he has made his home for a quarter of a century. Attractive personal qualities as well as business enterprise have made him widely and favorably known and he has a large circle of warm friends here. For forty-six years he has lived in Black Hawk county, being but an infant when his parents left their home in Cook county, Illinois, where he was born, and brought their family to Black Hawk county. He is a son of Christ and Elizabeth (Welter) Miller, who arrived in this section of the state in 1867, after which the father was for many years actively engaged in business at Gilbertville, where he passed away several years ago. His wife died about five or six years ago.

L. D. Miller was reared at Gilbertville and was employed in his father's store until about twenty years of age, when he came to Waterloo and entered the employ of the Smith, Lichty & Hillman Company, wholesale grocers, with whom he was connected for about twenty years. He entered their employ as driver of one of the wagons, later was advanced to the position of shipping clerk, and in 1893 went upon the road as traveling representative of the house. From the beginning he thoroughly mastered every task assigned to him and thus developed the power and ability to meet the increased responsibilities which came with promotion. He remained with the firm until 1906 and then after twenty years' connection with the house resigned, to the deep regret of his employers. He was, however, ambitious to engage in business on his own account and having been, in 1901, one of the organizers of the Waterloo Ice & Fuel Company, he in 1906, in connection with J. F. Simpson, bought out the interests of the other stockholders in the concern. The business had been reorganized the previous year under the name of the Crystal Ice & Fuel Company and since 1907 Mr. Miller has been the secretary and treasurer. This business now has a liberal patronage, its annual sales of both ice and fuel reaching a creditable and gratifying figure. Aside from his interests therein Mr. Miller is a stockholder in the Commercial National Bank of Waterloo.

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Mr. Miller and his family are communicants of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church and he holds membership in die Knights of Columbus, the Foresters and the Elks. Diligence and determination have been the basic elements in his business career, winning for him the success which he now enjoys. Practically his entire life has been spent in Black Hawk county, where he is well known, and the twenty-five years of his residence in Waterloo have established him as a resourceful, enterprising and representative business man.

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.