Miller Homestead
107 N. Market Street
The Miller House (with columns) in 1916. From the Fasold Flickr site
→ Henry E. Miller built a house here at some point in the 1860s. He moved to town around 1857, from Penn Township. Miller was a dry goods merchant and tobacco store owner. He also sold life insurance and fire insurance.
The structure burned to the ground in the Great Fire of 1874.
→ Miller rebuilt on this site in 1874. At the time of the fire, he was 39 years old. He had two children with his first wife, Lizzie Trexler—a son Harvey and a daughter Ida. He also had two children with his wife second wife, Amanda—a daughter Jennie and a daughter Mary.
→ Amanda (Fisher) Miller grew up in the Fishers’ stone house on the southern end of the Isle of Que. She was a descendant of Christian Fisher, an original European settler on the Isle of Que.
→ Jennie Henrietta Miller lived here after her parent’s deaths. She was teacher for forty years in Selinsgrove Public Schools. When she died in 1935, the Selinsgrove Times editor noted “She was born December 5, 1873, in the house in which she died.”
→ The house was rented for much of the 1940s and 1950s, with the family of John Smith, Selinsgrove’s chief burgess, living here in the mid-1940s.
→ In the late 1950s, the building housed Frank Grinnell’s television repair shop.
A Grinnell TV Service ad from 1956
→ Dentist Leon Messner lived here in the 1960s.