From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann 
 
p. 698 
 
CHARLES F. MILLER is the enterprising proprietor of a flourishing hotel  
at Point Mills, where he is widely known to the traveling public as a  
genial and accommodating host and as a gentleman of sterling qualities.  
     He was born at Fulton, Ohio county, West Virginia, December 23, 
1866, and is a son of J. F. and Hannah Miller. The former was born in  
Germany, and came to this country when but a child, accompanied by his  
parents.  Most of his life has been spent in farming, but he returned  
to Wheeling and is living there now at the advanced age of eighty-three  
years.  Hannah Miller was also a native of Germany, and when quite  
young came to the United States; she is now sixty-four years old. 
Charles F. Miller received his mental training in the common schools of  
Wheeling.  At the early age of fifteen years he left his home, went to  
Kentucky, and worked for two years in the transfer business.  
     Subsequently he returned to Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and there 
accepted a position in the large iron factory to anneal sheet iron; for 
one year he remained there and then he became a guard in the workhouse, 
and later a guard in the West Virginia State Penitentiary, where he 
stayed two years.  He next served as jailer of Ohio county for two 
years.  In January, 1900, he went to Point Mills, and has since kept 
the hotel which he is now conducting. 
     Mr. Miller chose for his wife Emma Strabe, a daughter of Charles  
Strabe, a native of Germany, who came to the United States early in  
life and died at the age of forty-seven years.  Her mother is still  
living.  Two children brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, namely:  
Walter C., born December 10, 1893, and Charles F., born November 25,  
1896.  The family favor the German Evangelical Lutheran church.  In  
politics Mr. Miller is a Republican.  His influence is cast on the side  
of high moral principles and strict integrity, and he has the utmost  
respect for true Christianity, which impels a man to recognize his  
brother in all relations of life.  He enjoys the esteem, confidence and  
ctionaffe of a wide circle of friends, who delight to do him honor.