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the great interests confided to their care ; with what freedom from pro- 
fessional jealousies they acted, and what magmanimity characterized 
their intercourse, is well known to the writer of this imperfect tribute to 
the memory of one whose loss we now deplore, and who considers it to 
be a worthy example to young men entering upon the arduous life of a 
Civil Engineer. 
Mr. Miller remained in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
pany for about six years, and in 1852 he visited England on business of 
that corporation. 
In February, 1853, he became the Chief Engineer of the North Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, and continued upon that line until June, 1856, in that 
year being President of the Company. He located the railroad from Phil- 
adelphia to Bethlehem, and part of it was completed while under his 
charge. A continuous line was also located from Bethlehem to the State 
line of New York at Waverley, and various other surveys were made to 
the Delaware Water Gap and elsewhere. 
In 1856, Edward Miller removed to Missouri, having been appointed 
Chief Engineer of the Pacific Railroad of that State. He held that post 
for a few years ; and, having gone to reside on a large farm near the Mis- 
souri River, about six miles from the Kansas line, the war broke out, and 
he found himself with a large family in a position of great peril. The 
progress of the railroad had stopped, and a terrible, irregular warfare 
filled all Western Missouri with fear. After enduring the evils of this 
position fora time, Mr. Miller returned to Philadelphia, leaving that home 
in the West which he had done much to improve, and which had fo1 a 
while lost its value. 
Although many millions of dollars had been disbursed under his direc- 
tion on various public works, his accumulations, after many years of labor, 
had not been large. He was proud of his professfon, looking upon it as 
the art of directing the great sources of power in nature to the use and 
benefit, of man, and he considered the Civil Engineer to be not only the 
interpreter between the man of science and the mechanic, but also a cap- 
tain of industry, bound in honor to set a good example to those 
under him of all uprightness and integrity 
working 
He had reached the age of fifty years, and he felt the importance of 
making a more adequate provision for his family. Through the kind as- 
sistance of Mr. John Edgar Thompson, he became a partner in a large 
contract for the completion of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, which 
proved to be profitable, and he was afterwards interested as a contractor 
on the Warren and Franklin and Kansas and Pacific Railroad. The 
favorable results of these undertakings enabled him to leave his family in 
2asy circumstances. 
In January, 1871, he was sixty years old, and about that time he found 
himself suffering from serious disease, the symptoms of which had begun 
to develop themselves some time before. An internal tumor, of a cancer- 
ous nature, was found to exist and to be increasing, and the resources of 
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