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MONONGALIA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Tina Hursh
frog158@juno.com
January 10, 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 II
pg. 78
Albert Kenneth Miller. Though he spent his early life on a farm in Pendleton
County, Albert K. Miller has devoted practically all his mature years to
commercial lines, beginning as a retail merchant, and has been an executive
official in several of West Virginia's prosperous wholesale grocery houses. He
is now an honored resident of Morgantown and secretary, treasurer and manager
of the Morgantown Grocery Company.
He was born on a farm in Pendleton County, January 6, 1873, son of John H. and
Eliza (Day) Miller, natives of the same county and now deceased. His
grandfathers were early settlers in Pendleton County, grandfather Jonas Miller
coming from Germany and grandfather Leonard Day, from Ireland.
Albert K. Miller learned some of the practical duties and discipline of the
farm while a boy, also attended district schools, but in 1892, at the age of
nineteen, left the farm and during the following six years was in the general
merchandising business at Alexander, Upshur County. In 1898 he became a
stockholder and one of the managers of the Upshur Grocery Company, a
wholesale house at Buckhannon. He left Buckhanon in 1912, and for the following
four years was manager of the Burnsville Grocery Company at Burnsville in
Braxton County. He is still a stockholder in that company.
Mr. Miller has been one of the business men and citizens of Morgantown since
since 1916, when he took charge of the Morgantown Grocery Company as
secretary, treasurer and manager. He is also a director of the Commercial
Bank of Morgantown. He is affiliated with the local business men through the
Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the First Methodist Church.
November 12, 1896, he married Julia Cheuvront. She was born at Good Hope,
Harrison County, West Virginia, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Anna (Brooks)
Cheuvront. Mary Anna Brooks was the daughter of a Methodist minister who in
his time was a power for good throughout Western Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Miller
are the parents of six children: Dwight C., born in 1898, now associated with
his father in the Morgantown Grocery Company; Ruth, born in 1900, a member of
the class of 1922 at West Virginia University; John H., born in 1902; Worth
W., born in 1904, a student in the Morgantown High School; Lois I., born in
1906; and Albert Kenneth, Jr., born in 1910.
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