Miner, Henry Clay
business man, congressman, was born March 23, 1842, in New York city. He was educated at the New York city grammar schools and at the American Institute school; studied the drug business and has been more or less engaged in that business.
In 1864 he went out in advance of Signor Blitz, the magician and bird trainer; his next engagement was with Thayer and.
Noyes's circus, and eventually he became the head of a metropolitan theater, and then rose to the proprietorship of five popular Thespian resorts-the Fifth Avenue, the People's, Miner's Bowery, Eighth Avenue , and Miner's Newark theaters.
He is president of the Miner Lithographing company, owns extensive phosphate interests in the south, holds large blocks of railway and mining stock in western corporations, directs a New York newspaper syndicate, and is the owner of a large drug store and photographic material house in New York city. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.