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Birth:          9 Mar 1917 Elizabeth, N.J.
Death:          27 Mar 1997 Lavonia, Ga.
Cause of Death: lymphoma

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1930 in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio
1940 in North Andover, Essex Co., Mass. farmer unm
Wadleigh Fam Tree
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/us/david-c-miller-80-physician-and-colleague-
of-schweitzer.html:
David C. Miller, 80, Physician And Colleague of Schweitzer

By HOLCOMB B. NOBLE  

Published: March 29, 1997
    
Dr. David C. Miller, who attended Albert Schweitzer late in the philosopher's life and 
who was a noted epidemiologist and leader of famine-relief and other humanitarian 
projects, died on Thursday at his home in Lavonia, Ga. He was 80. 

The cause was lymphoma, a family member said. 

In the 1960's, while helping to direct a heart-disease study at the Albert Schweitzer 
Hospital in Gabon, Dr. Miller began working with Schweitzer. They formed a close 
friendship, and Dr. Miller cared for the philosopher as he died in 1965. 

In 1971, Dr. Miller married Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena. They did relief work for 
victims of war, drought, famine and plague in such places as Bangladesh, Egypt, 
Ethiopia, Haiti, Pakistan and South Vietnam. 

Dr. Miller was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on March 9, 1917. He graduated from Duke 
University School of Medicine in 1950 and received a master's degree in public health 
from Harvard in 1956. He then directed nutrition programs for the Public Health 
Service in Washington for a year, worked at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital 
in Tuba City, Ariz., from 1957 to 1959, and at the Centers for Disease Control, in 
Atlanta, from 1968 until he retired in 1980. 

Besides his wife, he is survived by four daughters, Dr. Madeline Harrington of Port 
Angeles, Wash., Deborah Admiral of Copake, N.Y., Susan Sheppard of Bletchley, 
England, and Pamela Miller of Atlanta; a son, John Miller of Minneapolis, and two 
sisters, Elizabeth Popov of New Market, N.H., and Jean Hogan of Bronxville, N.Y. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Miller :
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For other people named David Miller, see David Miller (disambiguation).

David Critcherson Miller (March 9, 1917 – March 27, 1997) was an American physician 
and epidemiologist who attended to Albert Schweitzer until the humanitarian's death 
and later devoted his life to famine and medical relief efforts together with his wife, 
who was Schweitzer's only child.

Miller was born on March 9, 1917, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Benjamin and Mary 
Elizabeth Chritcherson Miller. He was primarily raised in Wadsworth, Ohio. He 
attended Northwestern University and Antioch College. He married Margaret Edith 
Barton, a fellow Antioch student, in 1945. After graduating from the Duke University 
School of Medicine in 1950, he attended Harvard University, where he was awarded a 
master's degree in public health in 1956.[1]

He was employed by the United States Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., 
where he was responsible for nutrition programs. Starting in 1957, he was assigned to 
the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Tuba City, Arizona, remaining there until 
1959.[1]

He went to Africa in the 1960s to perform a study on heart disease at the Albert 
Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon. He developed a close relationship with Dr. Schweitzer, 
and cared for him until his death in 1965.[1]

He joined the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta in 1968. He married Rhena 
Schweitzer, the only child of Dr. Schweitzer, in 1971, and the two traveled around the 
world offering medical assistance in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, 
Nigeria, Pakistan, Vietnam and Yemen to those suffering from drought, famine, plague 
and war. He retired from the CDC in 1980.[1]

Miller co-edited the book The relevance of Albert Schweitzer at the dawn of the 21st 
century with James Pouilliard, a work originally published by the University Press of 
America in 1992 that collected papers that had been presented in August 1990 at the 
United Nations as part of the International Albert Schweitzer Colloquium.[2]

Miller died at age 80 on March 27, 1997, due to lymphoma at his home in Lavonia, 
Georgia. In addition to his wife, he was survived by four daughters, a son and two 
sisters.[1]

Parents
MILLER Benjamin Hovey (1 Jan 1885 - 12 Jan 1960)
CRITCHERSON Mary Elizabeth ("Lizzie") (11 Dec 1878 - 25 Jul 1955)

Siblings
MILLER Jean (21 Dec 1912 - 16 Sep 2004)
MILLER Elizabeth (5 Mar 1915 - 5 Apr 1998)
MILLER David Critcherson (9 Mar 1917 - 27 Mar 1997)

Marriage To BARTON Margaret Edith (16 Oct 1922 - 2 Jun 2014)
    m. Feb 1945 dv. 1970 Antioch, Ohio

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Parents
BARTON Thomas ()
----- Marie ()

Children by BARTON Margaret Edith 16 Oct 1922 - 2 Jun 2014
MILLER Susan ()
MILLER Madeline ()
MILLER Deborah J. ()
MILLER John B. ()
MILLER Pamela M. ()

Marriage To SCHWEITZER Rhena Fanny Suzanne (14 Jan 1919 - 22 Feb 2009)
    m. 1971 

Notes

Parents
SCHWEITZER Albert Ludwig ()
BRESSLAU Helene ()

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