[10] Josephine died in April 1860 and Miller married Lisette Gross and had five children who survived infancy: Ernst, Emil, Frederick II, Clara, and Elise.

[10] Frederick Miller once owned a tract of land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that is now Craig Lake State Park.

[10] Miller's younger daughter Elise was the mother of Harry G. John (1919–1992), president of the company from 1946 to 1947 and founder of the De Rance Corporation, once the world's largest Catholic charity.

[11] Older daughter Clara's son Frederick C. Miller (1906–1954) was an All-American college football player at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and became president of the company after John in 1947.

It was bound for Winnipeg for a December hunting trip at Portage la Prairie;[14] the crash also killed the two company pilots, brothers Joseph and Paul Laird.