John Franklin Miller, 80, Pittsburgh industrialist, died at Goshen, NY, succumbing after a long illness. Mr. Miller was vice chairman of the board at Westinghouse Airbrake Company and an official of other Pittsburgh concerns.
Funeral services were held at Goshen, and the body interred temporarily at Woodlawn cemetery, New York City. In addition to his Westinghouse position, Mr. Miller was chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Company, chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, and a director of Fidelity Trust Company, as well as others. But his activities were not confined to business. Fifteen years of interest in the Kast Borough council of Boy Scouts, and an urge to travel occupied his spare time. Mr. Miller was the son of a pioneer family that moved to Port Perry in 1832. After attending the old Newells and Wilkinsburg academies, he entered Wooster College, Wooster. Schooling palled when he finished his junior year, so he left college supposedly temporary to travel abroad. To earn money for the trip he took a job as station agent at Port Perry for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Once back from Europe he was so interested in business that he never returned to college. Wooster, however, awarded him an A. B. degree in 1921 40 years later. He became a district agent for the Philadelphia Company, later joininh Westinghouse and worked his way to presidency of Westinghouse Airbrake, which he held between 1916 and 1919. En route up, between 1889 and 1899, he was manager of the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company and thus became the "father" of East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding. From 1906 to 1909 he was burgess of Edgeworth, to which community he had moved his home at 222 Hawthorne Street. He was a charter member of the Edgeworth Presbyterian Church. In 1888 he married Mary Louise Paull of Blairsville, and in April of 1937 he married a second time, Mrs. Clara L. Westinghouse, whose home is in Goshen, widow of Henry Herman Westinghouse. He had one daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Allen S. Davison.
Funeral services were held at Goshen, and the body interred temporarily at Woodlawn cemetery, New York City. In addition to his Westinghouse position, Mr. Miller was chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Company, chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, and a director of Fidelity Trust Company, as well as others. But his activities were not confined to business. Fifteen years of interest in the Kast Borough council of Boy Scouts, and an urge to travel occupied his spare time. Mr. Miller was the son of a pioneer family that moved to Port Perry in 1832. After attending the old Newells and Wilkinsburg academies, he entered Wooster College, Wooster. Schooling palled when he finished his junior year, so he left college supposedly temporary to travel abroad. To earn money for the trip he took a job as station agent at Port Perry for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Once back from Europe he was so interested in business that he never returned to college. Wooster, however, awarded him an A. B. degree in 1921 40 years later. He became a district agent for the Philadelphia Company, later joininh Westinghouse and worked his way to presidency of Westinghouse Airbrake, which he held between 1916 and 1919. En route up, between 1889 and 1899, he was manager of the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company and thus became the "father" of East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding. From 1906 to 1909 he was burgess of Edgeworth, to which community he had moved his home at 222 Hawthorne Street. He was a charter member of the Edgeworth Presbyterian Church. In 1888 he married Mary Louise Paull of Blairsville, and in April of 1937 he married a second time, Mrs. Clara L. Westinghouse, whose home is in Goshen, widow of Henry Herman Westinghouse. He had one daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Allen S. Davison.
John Franklin Miller, 80, Pittsburgh industrialist, died at Goshen, NY, succumbing after a long illness. Mr. Miller was vice chairman of the board at Westinghouse Airbrake Company and an official of other Pittsburgh concerns.
Funeral services were held at Goshen, and the body interred temporarily at Woodlawn cemetery, New York City. In addition to his Westinghouse position, Mr. Miller was chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Company, chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, and a director of Fidelity Trust Company, as well as others. But his activities were not confined to business. Fifteen years of interest in the Kast Borough council of Boy Scouts, and an urge to travel occupied his spare time. Mr. Miller was the son of a pioneer family that moved to Port Perry in 1832. After attending the old Newells and Wilkinsburg academies, he entered Wooster College, Wooster. Schooling palled when he finished his junior year, so he left college supposedly temporary to travel abroad. To earn money for the trip he took a job as station agent at Port Perry for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Once back from Europe he was so interested in business that he never returned to college. Wooster, however, awarded him an A. B. degree in 1921 40 years later. He became a district agent for the Philadelphia Company, later joininh Westinghouse and worked his way to presidency of Westinghouse Airbrake, which he held between 1916 and 1919. En route up, between 1889 and 1899, he was manager of the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company and thus became the "father" of East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding. From 1906 to 1909 he was burgess of Edgeworth, to which community he had moved his home at 222 Hawthorne Street. He was a charter member of the Edgeworth Presbyterian Church. In 1888 he married Mary Louise Paull of Blairsville, and in April of 1937 he married a second time, Mrs. Clara L. Westinghouse, whose home is in Goshen, widow of Henry Herman Westinghouse. He had one daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Allen S. Davison.
Funeral services were held at Goshen, and the body interred temporarily at Woodlawn cemetery, New York City. In addition to his Westinghouse position, Mr. Miller was chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Company, chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, and a director of Fidelity Trust Company, as well as others. But his activities were not confined to business. Fifteen years of interest in the Kast Borough council of Boy Scouts, and an urge to travel occupied his spare time. Mr. Miller was the son of a pioneer family that moved to Port Perry in 1832. After attending the old Newells and Wilkinsburg academies, he entered Wooster College, Wooster. Schooling palled when he finished his junior year, so he left college supposedly temporary to travel abroad. To earn money for the trip he took a job as station agent at Port Perry for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Once back from Europe he was so interested in business that he never returned to college. Wooster, however, awarded him an A. B. degree in 1921 40 years later. He became a district agent for the Philadelphia Company, later joininh Westinghouse and worked his way to presidency of Westinghouse Airbrake, which he held between 1916 and 1919. En route up, between 1889 and 1899, he was manager of the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company and thus became the "father" of East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding. From 1906 to 1909 he was burgess of Edgeworth, to which community he had moved his home at 222 Hawthorne Street. He was a charter member of the Edgeworth Presbyterian Church. In 1888 he married Mary Louise Paull of Blairsville, and in April of 1937 he married a second time, Mrs. Clara L. Westinghouse, whose home is in Goshen, widow of Henry Herman Westinghouse. He had one daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Allen S. Davison.
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