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SOURCES
Census
1900 John D. Miller, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY
1905 John D. Miller, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY ED15
1910 John D. Miller, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY ED927
1915 John D. Miller, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY ED57
1920 John D. Miller, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY ED1353
1930 John D. Miller, Montclair, Essex Co., NJ ED520
Residences
1900, 1905 - 190 Hart St., Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
1910, 1915, 1920 - 22 Marlborough Rd, Brooklyn, NY
1930 - 78 N. Fullerton, Montclair, NJ
Directory
1897.98 LAIN'S DIRECTORY Brooklyn
MILLER John D. notary 32 Nassau N. Y. h 190 Hart
Newspaper articles
New York Times
June 5, 1896, p.12. East River
Tunnel to be Built
January 14, 1900, p.9. A NEW ROAD
FOR BROOKLYN
July 17, 1915, p.12. RECORDED MORTGAGES, Manhattan
5TH ST, s s, 324.5 ft e of Avenue A, 20.7x96.2; Braunstein Brothers’ Soda
Fountain to John D. Miller, executor and trustee, 72 Marlborough Road,
Brooklyn, 1 year, 6 p. c., July 15; attorney, Title Guarantee Co., 176
Broadway…$825
February 20, 1941. JOHN DAVID MILLER (Death notice)
Note: Also living with John David Muller in 1915 is his
great-Aunt Jane Bowman, age 86, born Ireland, in US for 76 years.
Jane Bowman died June 5, 1922, age 93, certificate #12141, Kings Co., NY.
Her exact relationship has not been ascertained, but must be related to the
Wylie family.
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BIOGRAPHY
John David Müller Jr., son of Johann David Müller and Louise Fredericke
Charlotta Jagusch was born in September, 1863 in Manhattan, NY.
John was employed as clerk in 1880 at the railroad office. By 1887 he was
employed as clerk in a real estate office. At the time he resided at 958
Ninth Ave, Manhattan, NY.
John married Elizabeth Campbell WYLIE,
daughter of George WYLIE and
Charlotte
Elizabeth FENNER, on May 03, 1887 in St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Manhattan, NY. Elizabeth was born in January, 1866 in Manhattan, NY.
They were married by the Rev. Edward H. Cleveland and the witnesses were
Elizabeth’s sister, Jessie Letitia Wylie and David J. Thompson.
On July 31, 1888, their first child,
Charlotte Elizabeth, was born in 958 Ninth Ave, Manhattan, NY.
Their second child, Viola L. was born in
September 1893 in New York.
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 In 1897, John was employed as a banker at 32 Nassau St, New York City. By
1898, John and Elizabeth moved to the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn
and resided at 190 Hart Street. Their third and last child.
John George MILLER was born there on
February 20, 1898.
The 1900 census indicated that John owned his home with no mortgage. At the
time, John and his wife and 3 children shared their home with her father,
mother, and brother. They also had a servant named Eileen Sheehan who came
to this country from Ireland in 1898. In 1903, John also added the 2
orphaned children of his sister Elizabeth
to his family. They stayed with him until 1905.
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By 1910 John had progressed to the
bank officer position of Secretary, still
located at 32 Nassau Street. By this time John and his family had moved to a
home a few blocks from Prospect Park at 22 Marlborough Rd, Brooklyn, NY.
where they would remain until around 1924.
A very similar house at 53 Marlborough, for sale in 2006, offers a good
description of these homes. "Prewar seven-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath,
three-story 35-foot-by-36foot central hall clapboard house on a
5,000-square-foot lot, with two living rooms, dining room, eat-in
kitchen, basement...and driveway" [NY Post of Sept 21, 2006]
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The 1910 census lists Polly Thornton as the Müller's servant. Also in 1910,
John's in-laws, the Wylie's, were living with him including his wife's
Grand-Aunt Jane Bowman who was 81 years old, a grand old age for the times.
Jane was born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1839. She lived with
them until her death on June 22, 1922 at the age of 93 and is buried at
Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
John and his family then relocated to 376 North Fullerton Ave, Montclair,
Essex County, NJ. Their home was valued at $25,000. Their daughter Viola and
her family lived down the street at 388 North Fullerton Ave.
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