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 416 MINER. MINER. i878-'S5). He is a man of intense vital activity, striking individuality, and oc- cupies a high place in the esteem of the large constituency he has made, not only in the city where he lives, but in the State he equally well serves. MINER, David Worthington, son of Nathan and Arfa Worthington Miner, was born in Peru, Berkshire county, October 6, 1820. He received his early education in the public and private schools of his native town. He chose the career of a physician for his life work, and prepared himself for his profession in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and Berkshire Medi- cal College, Pittsfield. Besides these pro- fessional advantages, lie had benefited by s DAVID W. MINER. the private practical instruction given by Dr. John M. Brewster and Dr. H. H. Childs. Dr. Miner began the practice of his pro- fession in Lee, soon after graduation, in 1844 ; removed to Ware, in 1845, to accept a co-partnership with the late Dr. Horace Goodrich, which continued five years, when Dr. Goodrich retired. Dr. Miner has con- tinued the practice of surgery and medicine in the same office forty-four years. He was married in Northampton, Sep- tember 24, 1845, to Mary H., daughter of Joseph and Nancy Warner. Of this union are four children : Worthington Warner Miner, M. D., Eliza N. (now wife of Prof. Charles E. Garman of Amherst College), Jean E., and Affa S. Miner. Dr. Miner was appointed coroner bv Governor Gardner, but did not accept the office. He was appointed medical exam- iner in 1877, and still retains the office; was member of the school board many years ; chairman of the board of selectmen six years ; member of the board of road commissioners seven years, and has been chairman of the board of health many years. He is a member of the Massachusetts Med- ical Society and permanent member of the United States Medical Association, etc. Eighteen young men have studied medi- cine under his tuition, graduating from the different medical colleges of the country, all of whom have made successful practi- tioners, several having risen to high emi- nence in the profession. MINER, George Allen, the son of Harlow and Sarah Katharine (Campbell) Miner, was born at Granby, P. Q., January 15, 1828. On his father's side he is de- scended from Henry Bullman, of the Men- dippe Hills in Somersetshire, England, who furnished Edvvard III., when on his way to embark for the wars in France, with an escort of one hundred men selected from his servants and from the men employed in his mines. For this timely service the king ennobled Bullman, gave him a coat-of- arms and changed his name to Miner. One of his descendants, Thomas Miner, emigrated from England to Massachusetts, landing in Boston in 1630. On his mother's side he is descended from Sir John Camp- bell, Duke of Argyle. Mr. Miner, in early youth, was not a boy of robust health, and consequently did not readily enter into his father's plans for his own settlement and that of his younger brother in an interior town, preferring a mercantile career in Montreal, about fifty miles distant. As a sort of compromise, his father secured him a clerkship in the country store of C. F. Safford, at St. Albans, Vt. At this time he was seventeen years of age, and he continued in this posi- tion until he reached his majority. He then caught the "gold fever," and had agreed to accompany a friend from Bridge- port, Conn., on a voyage to California to seek his fortune, but owing to a severe storm, the stage-coach by which he was traveling from St. Albans to Troy, N. Y., was so much delayed that it did not reach New Haven, from whence he was to have embarked, until the dav after the sailing of