Person:William Miller (237)

Records of William Miller

From "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania:

In 1823. Col. William Miller built the present dam and operated a grist-mill on the river. Shortly after that date Thomas Foster put up a woolen factory near Miller's mill, and employed as many as thirty people in the manufacture of cassinettes, jeans, and cloths. In 1835 the woolen-factory and grist-mill were burned. Just below Foster's woolen-mill, Col. Miller built a paper-mill. He made writing-paper by the exceedingly slow process of moulding one sheet at a time. He had sometimes as many as twenty-fire persons in his employ making paper. Fire destroyed the papermill as also the grist-mill. The ruins of the former may yet be seen. A steam grist-mill was built by Joseph Strickler in 1840, but that is now abandoned. There is now at the village a grist-mill driven by water-power; Kaine & Long are the owners.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).