Monowi, Nebr., March 17--Funeral services were held here Tuesday for Z.T. Miller, first president of the National Retail Hardware Dealers; Association and first president of the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers Association, from which the national organization grew.
Services were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Nye of Spencer in the local Methodist church.
Mr. Miller, who came to Monowi nineteen years ago, died in a hospital at Lynch, March 12 at the age of 73 years, 11 months and 28 days.
Mr. Miller was born in Kutztown, Pa., March 14, 1853 to Richard and Catherine Miller. He attended Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown and worked in his father's carriage factory.
In 1871, he married Rosa Catherine High, also of Kutztown. To this union five sons were born; William Ezra, who died in infancy, Edward Young, who died while in the Philippines; John Richard, who died in Los Angeles a little over year ago; Henry Zacharias of Lake Andes, S.D. and Charles Carroll of Creighton, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller first located on a farm in Warren county, Indiana, whee they remained thirteen years, returning to Kutztown, Pa. in 1889. Again, they came west in 1892 to Bloomington, Ill., where Mr. Miller conducted a hardware store for a number of years and where he was instrumental in organizing the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers' Association, of which he was elected the first president.
From that organization originated the National Retail Hardware Dealers' Association of which Mr. Miller was elected first president.
He lived to see the final perfection of these organizations and realization to the merchants of many of the benefits that were theoretical only in the young days of the organization.
From Bloomington, the family moved to Nebraska, establishing a business in Monowi.
Mr. Miller had been a member of the Masonic Lodge for 50 years. He was baptized in the Lutheran church, Dec. 25, 1853.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, but his death was very sudden.
Surviving him ae his widow, two sons, Henry and Carroll; one sister, Mrs. C.T. Aid of West Plains, Mo and one brother, Charles W. Miller of Kutztown, Pa. There are seven living grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
...The Creighton News 24 March 1927
Services were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Nye of Spencer in the local Methodist church.
Mr. Miller, who came to Monowi nineteen years ago, died in a hospital at Lynch, March 12 at the age of 73 years, 11 months and 28 days.
Mr. Miller was born in Kutztown, Pa., March 14, 1853 to Richard and Catherine Miller. He attended Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown and worked in his father's carriage factory.
In 1871, he married Rosa Catherine High, also of Kutztown. To this union five sons were born; William Ezra, who died in infancy, Edward Young, who died while in the Philippines; John Richard, who died in Los Angeles a little over year ago; Henry Zacharias of Lake Andes, S.D. and Charles Carroll of Creighton, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller first located on a farm in Warren county, Indiana, whee they remained thirteen years, returning to Kutztown, Pa. in 1889. Again, they came west in 1892 to Bloomington, Ill., where Mr. Miller conducted a hardware store for a number of years and where he was instrumental in organizing the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers' Association, of which he was elected the first president.
From that organization originated the National Retail Hardware Dealers' Association of which Mr. Miller was elected first president.
He lived to see the final perfection of these organizations and realization to the merchants of many of the benefits that were theoretical only in the young days of the organization.
From Bloomington, the family moved to Nebraska, establishing a business in Monowi.
Mr. Miller had been a member of the Masonic Lodge for 50 years. He was baptized in the Lutheran church, Dec. 25, 1853.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, but his death was very sudden.
Surviving him ae his widow, two sons, Henry and Carroll; one sister, Mrs. C.T. Aid of West Plains, Mo and one brother, Charles W. Miller of Kutztown, Pa. There are seven living grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
...The Creighton News 24 March 1927
Monowi, Nebr., March 17--Funeral services were held here Tuesday for Z.T. Miller, first president of the National Retail Hardware Dealers; Association and first president of the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers Association, from which the national organization grew.
Services were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Nye of Spencer in the local Methodist church.
Mr. Miller, who came to Monowi nineteen years ago, died in a hospital at Lynch, March 12 at the age of 73 years, 11 months and 28 days.
Mr. Miller was born in Kutztown, Pa., March 14, 1853 to Richard and Catherine Miller. He attended Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown and worked in his father's carriage factory.
In 1871, he married Rosa Catherine High, also of Kutztown. To this union five sons were born; William Ezra, who died in infancy, Edward Young, who died while in the Philippines; John Richard, who died in Los Angeles a little over year ago; Henry Zacharias of Lake Andes, S.D. and Charles Carroll of Creighton, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller first located on a farm in Warren county, Indiana, whee they remained thirteen years, returning to Kutztown, Pa. in 1889. Again, they came west in 1892 to Bloomington, Ill., where Mr. Miller conducted a hardware store for a number of years and where he was instrumental in organizing the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers' Association, of which he was elected the first president.
From that organization originated the National Retail Hardware Dealers' Association of which Mr. Miller was elected first president.
He lived to see the final perfection of these organizations and realization to the merchants of many of the benefits that were theoretical only in the young days of the organization.
From Bloomington, the family moved to Nebraska, establishing a business in Monowi.
Mr. Miller had been a member of the Masonic Lodge for 50 years. He was baptized in the Lutheran church, Dec. 25, 1853.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, but his death was very sudden.
Surviving him ae his widow, two sons, Henry and Carroll; one sister, Mrs. C.T. Aid of West Plains, Mo and one brother, Charles W. Miller of Kutztown, Pa. There are seven living grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
...The Creighton News 24 March 1927
Services were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Nye of Spencer in the local Methodist church.
Mr. Miller, who came to Monowi nineteen years ago, died in a hospital at Lynch, March 12 at the age of 73 years, 11 months and 28 days.
Mr. Miller was born in Kutztown, Pa., March 14, 1853 to Richard and Catherine Miller. He attended Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown and worked in his father's carriage factory.
In 1871, he married Rosa Catherine High, also of Kutztown. To this union five sons were born; William Ezra, who died in infancy, Edward Young, who died while in the Philippines; John Richard, who died in Los Angeles a little over year ago; Henry Zacharias of Lake Andes, S.D. and Charles Carroll of Creighton, Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller first located on a farm in Warren county, Indiana, whee they remained thirteen years, returning to Kutztown, Pa. in 1889. Again, they came west in 1892 to Bloomington, Ill., where Mr. Miller conducted a hardware store for a number of years and where he was instrumental in organizing the Illinois Retail Hardware Dealers' Association, of which he was elected the first president.
From that organization originated the National Retail Hardware Dealers' Association of which Mr. Miller was elected first president.
He lived to see the final perfection of these organizations and realization to the merchants of many of the benefits that were theoretical only in the young days of the organization.
From Bloomington, the family moved to Nebraska, establishing a business in Monowi.
Mr. Miller had been a member of the Masonic Lodge for 50 years. He was baptized in the Lutheran church, Dec. 25, 1853.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, but his death was very sudden.
Surviving him ae his widow, two sons, Henry and Carroll; one sister, Mrs. C.T. Aid of West Plains, Mo and one brother, Charles W. Miller of Kutztown, Pa. There are seven living grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
...The Creighton News 24 March 1927
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