MELVILLE W. MILLER, of the firm of Spencer & Miller, operating grain elevators at Piqua and extensive dealers in grain, is one of the representative business men of this city and one who has had a large experience in this particular line. He was born in 1868, at Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio, from which place his parents moved when he was four years old, to Monroe, Michigan, where he was reared and educated.

Mr. Miller started out in commercial life as a grocery clerk and after some experience went to Detroit and there became connected with the Standard Insurance Company, with which he was identified for seven years. He then came to Piqua and for some years was in the grain business with the Eagle mills, after which, in partnership with his brother-in-law, George Harrey, started the Champion Feed Mills, which they operated for ten years. In 1901 Mr. Miller entered into partnership with Mr. Spencer, under the firm name of Spencer & Miller, and they operate an elevator in Piqua and one three miles south of the city and do a large business.

In 1892 Mr. Miller was married to Miss May Louise Bates, of Piqua, and they have two children, Donald D. and Melville S. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Green Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is secretary of the official board. Fraternal life has attractions for him and he is identified with the Odd Fellows, the Maccabees and the Masons, in the latter organization belonging to the Blue Lodge and Chapter, being past worshipful of the former and the present high priest of the latter . Socially he is connected with the Cosmopolitan Club.