According to her contemporary George Templeton Strong, Miller was active in New York City prostitution from the late 1810s.
[3] By 1821, she was running a brothel on Church Street, where she had accumulated personal effects worth at least $500.
At one point or another, Miller ran houses on Duane, Elm, Orange and Reade streets.
[6] The Libertine opined that she and Phoebe Doty, another madam, should rent New York's Park Theatre and talk about their exploits.
Her daughter, Louisa Missouri Miller, was an actress and mistress of English actor and theatre manager Thomas S.