Charles Hiram Miller Correspondence (1868-1898)

Charles Hiram Miller Correspondence (1868-1898)

Author: Miller, Charles H.

Year: 1898

Letters from Charles Hiram Miller to Emma Bailey Day, Emma Houghton, and from George Houghton to Charles Hiram Miller. Some of the content relates to the establishment and operation of the San Jose Institute and Commercial College. Professor George E. Houghton is listed as the Principal and head of the Commercial Department in the two brochures included with the correspondence (1869-1870). Charles Miller is head of the Intermediate Department; Mrs. Emma J. Houghton, head of the Primary Department. (According to Hall's History of San Jose, Houghton leased the San Jose Institute and Commercial College in 1868; it originally opened in July 1862 with 125 scholars under Professor Gates.) In a letter to the President of San Jose State University, dated March 10, 1954, the donor, Ada Holding Miller, details what she knows about the authors: "I am writing this at the request of my husband, Dr. Albert H. Miller. His father, Charles Hiram Miller, and his aunt, Mrs. Emma Houghton, and her husband, Mr. George Houghton, taught at what was then San Jose Institute, as the enclosed circular will prove. This was in the year 1869. Charles Miller eventually returned to Maine, his native state, with t