Myrtle Henrietta Exley was born in 1893 in Hancock, Michigan. Her father was a blacksmith, carriage and wagon maker in the Houghton and Hancock area. She attended the University of Michigan, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1916. She became a teacher in Hancock in 1921. She also taught high school in Hamtramck, Michigan, near Detroit, and in central Michigan at the Central Normal School in Mt. Pleasant. She married Herbert Orrin Miller, manager of her father's company. She passed away in 1939 at the age of 45 in Hancock.
From the description of Myrtle Exley Photograph Albums, 1911-1924. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 701561478