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Miller, James Earle (1890 - 1976)
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Born: 2/21/1890, Died: 3/31/1976 James Earle Miller was born in Shamokin, PA, and studied architecture at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia (1906 to 1909), where he enrolled in the Beaux-Arts style atelier supervised by John J. Dull. From 1909 to 1913 and from 1915 to 1917, Miller worked successively for the U.S. Gas Improvement Co. and as a draftsman and designer, for a number of local architects, including Frederick Webber, William H. Lee, Morris & Erskine, George Lovatt, Sr., and William Gray & Sons (stone contractors). From 1913 to 1915 Miller was a member of the staff of the Pennsylvania Telectrophone Co., in charge of daily broadcasting and publicity, and from 1917 to 1919 he served with the U.S. Army in France. On his return to the United States he entered private practice in Philadelphia, with an office at 23 South 16th Street, where he continued through 1923 according to the Philadelphia city directories. After this stint of private practice Miller returned to the U.S. government, working for the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. War Department, and the Veterans Administration. From 1934 to 1938 he served as the architect in charge and chief for thePublic Works Projects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Then, from 1938 to 1939 Miller resumed private practice in Hanover, PA, but again returned to government work in the 1940s. At the time that the American Architects Directory was compiled 1962, Miller noted that he was in private practice in Silver Spring, MD.Miller joined the AIA in 1939 and received emeritus status in 1957.
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