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also became a member of the board of
directors. He has now for some years
filled his present dual office of manager
of the sales department and third vicepresident.
He is a director of the South
Norwalk Trust Company.
The responsibilities of Mr. Miller as
a business man are not allowed to interfere
with his activities as a citizen. He
belongs to the Old Well Hook and Lad-
der Fire Company, and during the recent
World War served as a member of the
executive committee in the Liberty Loan
and Red Cross drives in South Norwalk,
also acting as chairman of the Red Cross
chapter in that city, and a member of the
fuel committee, Norwalk, Connecticut.
He is president of the Norwalk Country
Club, and vice-president of the South
Norwalk Club. He and his wife are mem-
bers of the Congregational church, of
South Norwalk.
Mr. Miller married, January 15, 1896,
Josephine L. Getler, whose family was
originally of Yonkers, New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Miller are the parents of two
daughters : Pauline L., born July 16,
1897, now the wife of John H. Mullekin ;
and Josephine G. Mrs. Miller takes an
active part in church work.
The early portion of Mr. Miller's career
was spent in stock-raising in the Far
West, and he has now for many years
been numbered among the successful bus-
iness men of his native State.
MILLER, Louis P.,
Mannfactnrer.
Superintendent of the plant of the Gilbert
& Bennett Manufacturing Company,
and during the long space of forty-one
years identified with that nationally
know corporation. This, in brief, is the
story of Mr. Miller's business career and
is known to many, while his record as a
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good and useful citizen is equally famil-
iar to his friends and neighbors of
Georgetown.
Louis P. Miller was born April 10, 1865,
in Georgetown, Connecticut, and is a son
of the late David H. and Catherine
(Welling) Miller. His education was re-
ceived in the village school, and in 1879
he entered the service of the Gilbert &
Bennett Manufacturing Company. From
the outset he gave evidence of being endowed
with a full measure of the busi-
ness ability characteristic of his family,
and by his own eflforts worked his way
up, steadily advancing from one position
of responsibility to another until reach-
ing his present office of superintendent,
which he has now held for a number of
years. In Masonic and fraternal circles
Mr. Miller is well known and influential.
He affiliates with Ark Lodge, No. 39,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
Georgetown ; Crusader Commandery, No.
10, Knights Templar; Pyramid Temple,
Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport ; the Lafay-
ette Consistory of Bridgeport, thirtysecond
degree Mason ; and Pilgrim Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Ridgefield.
Mr. Miller married Carrie Kennel,
daughter of Jacob Kennel, of New York
City.
For more than four decades Louis P.
Miller has given the best that was in him
to the promotion of the interests of the
Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Company,
and by his able, energetic and unwearied
eflforts he has been largely and
potentially instrumental in its development
and upbuilding.
MILLER, D. Henry,
Manufacturer,
Among the most aggressive of Georgetown's
business men of the younger gen-