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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
July 9, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 466-467
Cabell
GEORGE D. MILLER is one of the prominent young men
in the financial and business affairs of Huntington, and
a large group of important interests center in him. His
chief daily routine is in the First National Bank, of which
he is cashier. Mr. Miller was born at Huntington, Decem-
ber 20, 1887. His father, the late George F. Miller, came
to Huntington when a young man, and after his marriage
at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, settled here permanently. He
assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Hunting-
ton in 1884, and became its first cashier, holding that post
until his death. In the meantime he had done something
toward making this the largest bank in West Virginia in
point of capita] and resources. He was associated with the
group of men who really built up Huntington to an im-
portant city. He was a democrat, but in 1896 changed
politics on account of the free silver issue. He was an
active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
George F. Miller married Lucy McConnell, a native of
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, who died at Huntington. They
were the parents of three sons: James I. is a graduate of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and is
practicing medicine at Huntington. Charles I. is in the
wholesale dry goods business at Seattle, Washington.
George D. Miller, the youngest of the sons, was educated
in the public schools of Huntington, and attended pre-
paratory schools at Charlottsville and Alexandria, Virginia.
He left school at the age of twenty, and soon afterward
became bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Hunting-
ton. He was promoted to teller, again to assistant cashier,
and since April, 1920, has been cashier of this institution,
now housed in the magnificent twelve-story business block
that is the outstanding structure in the Huntington district.
Mr. Miller is also a director of the bank.
He is associated with his brothers in the ownership of
several business buildings in Huntington, and among the
other interests that claim a share of his active energies
are the Huntington Land Company, of which he is secretary,
Ohio River Land Company, Pea Bidge Land Company,
Kenova-Huntington Land Company, and the Enslow Park
Realty Company, all of which he is treasurer, and he is
president of the Miller-Hunt Homes Company.
Mr. Miller votes as an independent. He is affiliated
with Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Huntington Rotary Club, Guyandotte
Club of Huntington, Huntington Country Club and West
Side Country Club. During the war he exerted himself in
behalf of all the patriotic causes, and was particularly
valuable in leading and insuring the success of the Liberty
Loan drives. Mr. Miller has a modern home at 1056 Sixth
Avenue. He married at Huntington in 1908 Miss Chloe
Doolittle, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Edward S. Doo-
little, now deceased. Her father was a prominent West
Virginia lawyer and judge of the Circuit Court. Mrs.
Miller is a graduate of Marshall College at Huntington and
finished her education in the Randolph-Macon College at
Lynchburg, Virginia. Three children have been born to
their marriage: George D., Jr., born in 1911; Jane, born in
1914; Chloe, born in 1917.
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