. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of ried Mary Ashbiirn, reared a family ofeight sons and daughters, and died in Blairstown, New Jersey. .GonradrMiller, son of John A. Miller, was born in Germany, October 20,1838, and died March 29, 1912. He came to Baltimore, Maryland, with hisparents, in 1852, and there began his business life. He was quartermasterof construction in the quartermasters department in Washington during theCivil War period, after which he
. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of ried Mary Ashbiirn, reared a family ofeight sons and daughters, and died in Blairstown, New Jersey. .GonradrMiller, son of John A. Miller, was born in Germany, October 20,1838, and died March 29, 1912. He came to Baltimore, Maryland, with hisparents, in 1852, and there began his business life. He was quartermasterof construction in the quartermasters department in Washington during theCivil War period, after which he became interested iu railroad became heavily interested in that line of work and contracted sections ofthe Baltimore & Ohio, in Ohio, the South Mountain Road in Pennsylvania,and in 1876 built the Blairstown (New Jersey) railroad to Delaware stationfor John I. Blair. Two years later he built the Belvidere Water Works, andthe Bangor Portland railroad, a distance of eisrht miles. He was electedpresident and manager of that road, and in 1880 continued its extension toPen Argyl, completing the line to Nazareth in 1881. From 1890 until 1898 N. H, BIGG.—19 r. (jAi^ iy^M^ / ^
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