Boyer, Helen King, 1919-

Born in Miamisburg, Ohio, Z. T. Miller (1847-1913) entered the Union army at age 15 as a musician early in the American Civil War. Becoming attached to the 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, he participated in training at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio; in the Virginia theater of war in places such as Moorefield, Fairfax Court House, Stafford Court, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville; in the march towards Gettysburg; and in the Atlanta campaign. For a time during the war, Miller was a clerk for General Carl Schurz. After the war, Miller became a telegraph operator, working in Dayton and then Cleveland, Ohio. In 1873, he married Katherine (Kate) King. Embarking upon a medical career, Miller received homeopathic medical training at the New York Medical College and the Philadelphia Medical College. He worked for more than 30 years as a homeopathic physician in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a faculty member of the School of Applied Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Artist and designer Louise Rivé-King Miller Boyer (1890-1976), was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Oct. 30, 1890, the daughter of Z. T. Miller and Katherine (King) Miller. Having painted as early as age seven, she eventually received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1913. On Jan. 22, 1914, she married architect Ernest Wilson Boyer, with whom she had two children: Taylor Miller Boyer and Helen King Boyer. In 1918, Louise worked as a screenwriter for Metro Pictures Corporation in New York City. She later became a free lance designer and graphic artist. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and others. She was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and served as a trustee of the Charles and Martin Leisser Fund. Louise M. Boyer died on Dec. 6, 1976.

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