Miller, well known member of the Cleveland bar, is a native of Pennsylvania and is descended from two pioneer families of Berks County, that state.
On the maternal side, Miller is descended from Michael Unger, who settled in Berks County about 1795.
Edwin E. Miller was reared in a log cabin near Shartlesville in Berks County until the family moved into the suburbs of Reading.
In that year, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio and entered the practice of law in Cleveland.In his youth, Miller was early a wage earner, beginning as a newsboy in Reading at the age of nine and for thirteen succeeding years he was employed in other and various ways earning money with which he paid his way through college and law school.
For three years, he was instructor of personal property, wills, domestic relation and partnerships in what was then the Rufus P. Janney Law school of this city.