from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 127) p. LVII. "JOHN MILLER - Died New York city on Sunday, Oct. 15, 1848, after long suffering, from dropsy. He conducted a printing office in Providence before 1813, when he was interested in the publication of the American. In January, 1820, in partnership with John Hutchens, Mr. Miller began the publication of the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal. He relinquished his interest in the paper in 1835, when he removed to Philadelphia, and later to New York city. His obituary in the Journal said: 'John Miller never had an enemy. All the kindly virtues were in him most harmoniously mingled and blended; and amid all the sharp encounters of business and all the asperities of politics, the community saw only the unaffected urbanity of the gentleman, the unostentatious and unfailing generosity of the man.' His funeral took place Oct. 17 from No. 29 Broadway, and 'many of his old friends, those who knew him in his prosperity, came to pay the last tribute of respect to one who is remembered only with kindness.' WILLIAM JONES MILLER - Born Bristol Jan. 19, 1818. His grandfather, Nelson Miller, was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Young Miller attended the Bristol schools and at the age of 15 began an apprenticeship in the office of the Bristol Gazette, leaving at the end of one year. In 1836 he was working at the case in the office of the Providence Journal and for a time was foreman of the composing room. In 1842, during the Dorr excitement, the firm of Low & Miller, of which he was a member, published the Providence Daily Express and also the weekly New Age. These papers stopped in 1843 and he printed for other parties the Providence Gazette and Chronicle. In 1845 he was collector of customs for Bristol and Warren, then an important position. With Welcome B. Sayles in 1850 he started the Providence Daily Post, retaining connection with the paper until after the Civil war. He was delegate to the National Democratic conventions of 1856, '64 and '72; President of the Bristol town council in 1859, '70 and '71; clerk of the House of Representatives in 1853 and '63; Representative in the General Assembly in 1873 and '74, and for many years served on the school board of Bristol. He was connected with the Bristol Gas Works from its organization, first as superintendent and secretary and later as treasurer. In 1874, '75 and '76 he read papers on the Wampanoag Indians before the Rhode Island Historical Society. These led to the placing of a stone, marking the spot where King Philip was shot, at the 200th anniversary of the event. He died in Bristol Jan. 29, 1886." continued in part 128.