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CHARLES H. MILLER
Since coming here in 1914, Charles
H. Miller has done his full share in the upbuilding of Stockton in his
high-grade work as a brick contractor, thereby contributing to the permanency
of the city’s development. Mr. Miller is
a native of North Carolina, born in Davidson County, April 14, 1883. He learned the trade of brickmason in his
home neighborhood and followed it in his native state, then in Tennessee and
Missouri. In 1913 he came to Los
Angeles, California, and for a year was with the F. O. Eckstrom Company,
contractors, coming to Stockton in the fall of 1914, where he entered the
employ of Cowell & Son, brick contractors.
While with them he worked on the brick work of many of the large
buildings in Stockton, including the Belding Building, the new Weber school,
the Lincoln school, and many others.
In 1917 Mr. Miller started in
business for himself as a brick contractor and among the buildings on which he
has done the brick work are the following:
Elmwood school, Greenwood school, Everett school, Georges Building,
Hobbs-Parsons Building, Deneen Block, French Laundry Building,
Davis Iron Works, Superior Manufacturing Company’s Building at Lodi; ten tile
houses in Modesto, the Nobel Block on North Hunter Street, Stockton, Parisian
Cleaning and Dyeing Plant, Black Package Company Block on East Weber, C. G.
Call Block, Clay Street Methodist Church, Armanino
apartment house, an addition to the Smith Building in Tracy, Pennant Cleaners
on South El Dorado, and a cottage for Gardella on
Sierra Nevada. In Sonora he did the
brick work on a store building and apartment house, and he has made a specialty
of artistic mantels and fireplaces, installing them in many of the fine homes
of Stockton, his work being of the highest honor.
Mr. Miller was married on October
12, 1905, at Lexington, North Carolina, to Miss Ellen E. Yarbrough, also a
native of North Carolina, and they are the parents of four children: Hubert D., Viola Veigh,
W. Franklin and Charles H. Jr. In
fraternal life Mr. Miller is a Modern Woodman and since settling in Stockton he
has taken an active interest in all movements for the city’s improvement.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1416. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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