Sacramento County
Biographies
OSCAR H.
MILLER
OSCAR H. MILLER.--Prominently connected with important business interests in Sacramento, Oscar H. Miller, as manager and part owner of the Knox Lumber Company, has long been identified with the upbuilding and progress of the capital city of California. Laudable ambition, well directed energy and perseverance have brought to him a substantial measure of prosperity. Oscar H. Miller is a native son of California, born in Sacramento July 14, 1868, a son of P. A. and Johannah (Johnson) Miller. The parents were married in Galesburg, Ill., and came to the Golden State in 1862 and 1865 respectively. P. A. Miller was a building and street contractor and is now deceased, while the mother is still living in Sacramento. Oscar H. Miller attended grammar and high school and then took a course in a business college of his native city. At the age of eighteen he became connected with the Knox Lumber Company and was steadily advanced until he became manager; in 1918 he purchased an interest in the business and the volume of business is steadily increasing under his efficient management.
Mr. Miller’s marriage united him with Miss Lillie M. Klewe, also a native Californian, born at Colusa, and they are the parents of one son, Walter H. During the World War, Mr. Miller was active in all war work drives; in politics he is a Republican and fraternally is a member of the B. P. O. Elks No. 6, and Parlor No. 3 of the N. S. G. W. Of Sacramento; locally he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Del Paso Country Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 909.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.