• Born: 28 Mar 1833, Westfield NJ

  General notes:

Jeweler and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• He worked in 1856-1871 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Chicago IL having apprenticed in New Jersey and worked for a year as a journeyman in Massachusetts. His business was destroyed in the great Chicago fire and he retired to the country where he engaged in fruit farming.

• He was a partner before 27 Oct 1860 with Abner Halsey and James Wesley Miller in Chicago IL as A. H. MILLER & BROTHERS.

• Advertised in the New York Daily Tribune (New York City NY), 14 Nov 1860,
  NOTICE.—Public notice is hereby given that the copartnership heretofore existing between A. H. Miller, J. W. Miller and W. H. C. Miller, doing business in the City of Chicago, Ill, under the name and style of A. H. MILLER & BROTHERS, and A. H. Miller and J. W. Miller, doing business in the City of Newark, N. J., under the name and style of A. H. & J. W. MiLLER, is dissolved by limitation.
  A. H. Miller will settle all accounts of the Chicago business, and J. W. Miller will settle all accounts of the Newark business.
  A. H. MILLER
  J. W. MILLER
  WM. H. C. MILLER
  Chicago, Oct. 27, 1860

• He worked after 27 Oct 1860 as a silversmith and jeweler in Chicago IL as W. H. C. MILLER & Co.

• Advertised in the Directory & Shippers' Guide of Kansas and Nebraska, 1867,

• Advertised in the A Guide to the City of Chicago (Chicago IL), 1868,