Researching Frederick Miller

Miller married Josephine Miller in Friedrichshafen, Württemberg, on June 7, 1853. Their first child, Joseph Edward Miller, was born the next year. In 1854, the family emigrated to the United States, spending the first year in New York. They moved to Wisconsin in 1855, arriving through New Orleans.

Josephine died in April 1860 and Miller married Lisette Gross and had five children who survived infancy: Ernst, Emil, Frederick II, Clara, and Elise. Clara married Carl A. Miller (no relation), also a German immigrant.

Frederick Miller once owned a tract of land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that is now Craig Lake State Park.

Miller died of cancer in 1888 at age 63, and was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee. Following his death, the company was run by his surviving three sons and son-in-law Carl.

Miller's younger daughter Elise was the mother of Harry G. John (1919–1992), president of the company from 1946–1947 and founder of the De Rance Corporation, once the world's largest Catholic charity.

Older daughter Clara's son Frederick C. Miller (1906–1954) was an All-American college football player at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and became president of the company after John in 1947. He and his 20-year-old son Fred, Jr., were killed in a plane crash in Milwaukee in 1954. The nine-passenger twin-engine company aircraft was a converted Lockheed Ventura. It was bound for Winnipeg for a December hunting trip at Portage la Prairie; the crash also killed the two company pilots, brothers Joseph and Paul Laird.

His brother, William Miller, also played first-class cricket.

He was the son of Matilda Goldsmith and Frederick Miller, who married in Eastbourne on 4 March 1874. Matilda Goldsmith was born in Newenden, Kent in May 1848. Fred Miller was born in Hailsham in February 1850. Matilda's father, William Goldsmith was a farm labourer whereas Fred Miller and his father, Edward Miller were both professional photographers (according to their marriage certificate records).

His parents settled in Haywards Heath in 1880, and before the end of the century Miller had set up "The Mid-Sussex Photographic Studio" in Haywards Heath, offering photographs "in any size and newest styling" and services including "copying and enlarging". He also photographed outdoor events such as "garden parties". In 1903 he started to publish and sell picture postcards, and the business grew and became successful.

He married Kate Elizabeth Peerless in 1905. Miller ran the studio until he sold the business to Ebenezer William Pannell in February 1916, and moved to Worthing with his wife, where they lived for the rest of their lives. His wife died on 19 March 1959, and Miller died in Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea on 7 June 1961.