The
many friends of William A. Miller, of Chicago, formerly of this
town, learned with regret at the week-end of his death at his home,
Parkridge, Ill. on Saturday morning. He was taken ill at St.
Petersburg where he usually spent his winters on November 26, and
since that time had been seriously ill.
The
son of William H. Miller and the grandson of Captain Willet Green
Miller, well-known residents of town, deceased spent his boyhood
here. He qualified as a teacher, and in the nineties went to
Chicago, where he was successful in the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
The
possessor of a genial and charming manner, Mr. Miller made many
friends and never forgot his home town making visits here at least
twice a year, staying with his aunts, Miss Phoebe A. Miller and Mrs.
D. Lundy Jackson. Surviving him are his wife, the former Miss Maude
Eastman of Chicago, a son, Willett Green Miller, his partner in
business, and one granddaughter, Eileen Miller.
Interment
is taking place at Chicago.
The
grandfather of deceased, Captain Willett Green Miller, lived in
Simcoe for a great many years, dying here a quarter century ago in
his 100th year. He was a prominent citizen in his time. Another
grandson of the aged gentleman was the late Dr. Willett Green
Miller, provincial geologist, who died several years ago, and who
was therefore a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
