Bio: Miller, Hon. Henry (1849 - 19??)

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Surnames: Miller, Brueckel, Althen, Sherman, Mathews, Plumer

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Miller, Hon. Henry (19 February 1849 - 19??)

Hon. Henry Miller, who is well known to bench and bar in Marathon county and has also been a factor in political life, has been a resident of Wausau for forty years. He was born in Hesse-Dann Stadt, Germany, February 19, 1849, a son of John and Christina (Brueckel) Miller. His mother, who was the first wife, died when he was ten months old, and his father married again, when Henry Miller was six years of age. Four sons were born to the first and five children to the second union. The youngest born of his father's first marriage, Henry was reared by his stepmother and remained in Germany until 1868, when, in company with his oldest brother, John Miller, he came to the United States. They separated, John coming directly to Wausau, while Henry went to the home of an uncle, Conrad Miller, who lived in Allegany County, N. Y. From 1868 until September, 1872, when he came to Wausau, he worked at different places in New York, and afterward became a clerk for James McCrossin. Later he began to teach school and taught for six winters in Marathon County, in the meanwhile making many friends, and in 1875 he was elected city clerk of Wausau, an office he satisfactorily filled for three years, being employed at the same time as a clerk in the store of Conrad Althen. In the fall of 1878 he was elected county clerk of Marathon County, a position he held for eight years or four terms, and in the fall of 1886 was elected a member of the General Assembly, serving as such two years. In the meantime he had become interested in merchandising and conducted a store on Third Street, Wausau. In 1890 he was elected municipal judge of Marathon County and honorably filled that office for twelve years. In 1894 he was appointed county judge in place of John J. Sherman, who had resigned, and served sixteen years in that position, retiring from the bench in 1910. In politics Judge Miller is a Democrat. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs also to the O. D. S. H., of which he was grand president.

In August, 1872, Judge Miller was married in Allegany County, N. Y., to Miss Helen A. Mathews, of Friendship, N. Y., and they have had eight children, three of whom died when young. Harry L. the eldest born, is superintendent of the Power Mining and Machinery Company of Milwaukee; Leon C. is bookkeeper in the pattern department of the above company at Cudahy, Wis.; Nina V., who is gifted musically, is a teacher of music, both vocal and instrumental. Amy E. is private stenographer for D. L. Plumer, president of the First National Bank at Wausau. Edwin C. is a machinist in the employ of the Power Mining and Machinery Company. Judge Miller's family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.