Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Miller, John Henry

MILLER, John Henry, publisher, b. in Waldeck, Germany, in 1702; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 31 March, 1782. He came to this country and was employed by Benjamin Franklin and William Bradford to superintend their German printing. He published the Lancaster, Pa., “Gazette” in 1752, and from 1762 till 1779 “Der Wöchentliche Philadelphische Staatsbote.” He did a large business throughout the colonies in printing almanacs, laws, school-books, and the classics, and in reprinting English and German works.