George Macculloch Miller (May 4, 1832 – November 14, 1917), was an American lawyer, and secretary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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Early life
George Macculloch Miller was born in 1832 in Morristown, New Jersey. He was a son of politician Jacob W. Miller and Mary Louisa Macculloch. His father and J. Pierpont Morgan were directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He graduated from the Burlington College in New Jersey in 1850 and later Harvard Law School.
Career
George Macculloch Miller and several others began a series of charitable collections among churches and business groups in as early as 1882. In 1893, a committee was appointed "to take steps to have Hospital Saturday and Sunday observed throughout the United States." Members of the committee included Miller, Charles Lanier, Morris K.Jesup, Samuel D. Babcock, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jesse Seligman, Jacob H. Schiff, and Charles Stewart Smith. The goal of this organization was to have a second collection in churches across the United States and have the money disbursed to hospitals for assistance to indigents. This developed into a larger organization eventually becoming the United Hospital Fund.
Personal life
He married Elizabeth Odgen Hoffman. She was the daughter of Lindley Murray Hoffman and Susan Ogden. Together they had:
Hoffman Miller
Mary Louisa Miller
Leverett Saltonstall Miller
Elizabeth Agnes Miller, who married tennis player Godfrey Brinley in 1902
George Macculloch Miller Jr., who died in infancy.
Edith Macculloch Miller
He died on November 14, 1917, at his home, 270 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
Descendants
His grandson, George Macculloch Miller III (d. 1972) married Flora Payne Whitney in Cairo, Egypt in 1927.