John Henry Miller

John Miller
Born	1702 Waldeck
Died	31 March 1782(1782-03-31) (aged 79–80) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

John Henry Miller (sometimes only referred to as Henry Miller; 1702 – 31 March 1782 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was a printer and publisher who worked in the Thirteen Colonies, most notably for Benjamin Franklin and William Bradford.

Miller was born in the principality of Waldeck in Upper Rhine, where his parents then resided. He came to America and was employed by Benjamin Franklin and William Bradford to superintend their German printing as a translator of German into English. He published the Gazette of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1752, and from 1762 to 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.

See also

• Early American publishers and printers
• German American journalism
• List of early American publishers and printers

References

• Thomas, Isaiah (1874). The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers. Vol. I. New York, B. Franklin.
• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Miller, John Henry" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.