J. Harding Miller
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Title
J. Harding Miller
Subject
Miller, John Harding (1920-2013)
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Description
Portrait of J. Harding Miller in his U.S. Army uniform.
John Harding Miller was born in Mt. Jackson, the youngest of the six surviving children of Edward Jackson and Lelia Arbella (Frye) Miller. His father was a blacksmith who died when John was nine, and his mother supported the family during the Great Depression through nursing and midwifery.
In 1940, John worked as an attendant in a gas station and lived in Mt. Jackson with his widowed mother, sister, uncle, and two cousins. When he registered for the WWII draft in 1942, he lived on Columbia Road in Washington D.C. and worked at the Board of Economic Warfare on ‘Q’ Street.
John served in the 22nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II, and while home on leave met a young schoolteacher, Ethel Mason, to whom he proposed the night they met. She had grown up in Hanover County, Virginia, the daughter of Reverend J. Phillip and Adelaide (Lasley) Mason. After graduating from Madison College in 1943, Ethel moved to Mt. Jackson to teach school where she met her husband.
The 1950 census found the couple living on Cutshaw Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, where Ethel cared for their 4-year old daughter, Jean, and John Harding worked as a mortgage loan inspector for an insurance company.
John and Ethel moved to Roanoke in 1951. He was initially employed by the Prudential Insurance Company. In 1966, he founded a real estate appraisal business which eventually became Miller, Long & Associates, Inc.
John Harding Miller and his wife were married for 67 years before she died. They had three daughters, Jean Mason, Anne Stuart (who died as an infant), and Jane Harding Miller.
John Harding Miller was born in Mt. Jackson, the youngest of the six surviving children of Edward Jackson and Lelia Arbella (Frye) Miller. His father was a blacksmith who died when John was nine, and his mother supported the family during the Great Depression through nursing and midwifery.
In 1940, John worked as an attendant in a gas station and lived in Mt. Jackson with his widowed mother, sister, uncle, and two cousins. When he registered for the WWII draft in 1942, he lived on Columbia Road in Washington D.C. and worked at the Board of Economic Warfare on ‘Q’ Street.
John served in the 22nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II, and while home on leave met a young schoolteacher, Ethel Mason, to whom he proposed the night they met. She had grown up in Hanover County, Virginia, the daughter of Reverend J. Phillip and Adelaide (Lasley) Mason. After graduating from Madison College in 1943, Ethel moved to Mt. Jackson to teach school where she met her husband.
The 1950 census found the couple living on Cutshaw Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, where Ethel cared for their 4-year old daughter, Jean, and John Harding worked as a mortgage loan inspector for an insurance company.
John and Ethel moved to Roanoke in 1951. He was initially employed by the Prudential Insurance Company. In 1966, he founded a real estate appraisal business which eventually became Miller, Long & Associates, Inc.
John Harding Miller and his wife were married for 67 years before she died. They had three daughters, Jean Mason, Anne Stuart (who died as an infant), and Jane Harding Miller.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
ca 1942
Contributor
Identified by Reba Dellinger.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
J. Harding Miller appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001963 and 001986.
Identifier
001963
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negatives
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “J. Harding Miller,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 16, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/25737.
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