ZEELAND — The Howard Miller Co., known as the world’s largest manufacturer of grandfather clocks and maker of fine chiming mantel and wall clocks, curio cabinets, and home furniture, recently closed its doors.
Thankfully, a private firm is resurrecting its name. Here is why that name has value.
Howard C. Miller was born in 1905 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the fourth of six children to Herman and Nellie Breen Miller.
Herman Miller was born Herman Mulder in 1868. In 1882, he immigrated with his parents, Harm and Stientje Smit Mulder, from Groningen, Netherlands, to the United States…